House of Flying Daggers behind the scenes gags

House of Flying Daggers

During the filming of this movie, Zhang Yimou had a "quirk": He always wore sneakers on set, and every time he changed shoes, he would bow to his old shoes and say "goodbye" .
The ending of "House of Flying Daggers" originally took place in a sea of flowers. Liu and Jin decided their final fate. Unexpectedly, the Ukrainian snow season came early, so Zhang Yimou decided to change the ending. The sea of flowers is replaced by snow .
Once during filming, Cheng Xiaodong was shot in the forehead by Takeshi Kaneshiro's arrow. Fortunately, when the incident happened, Cheng Xiaodong's eyes were looking at the monitor, otherwise his eyes would not be kept .
Zhang Yimou has always wanted to take a shot of the golden catcher, riding a horse, and then suddenly standing still in the wind, but this shot became impossible because of Takeshi Kaneshiro's fall. So Zhang Yimou changed his approach and took close-up shots to reflect the appearance of Jin's head pulling the horse sideways .
"House of Flying Daggers" was originally played by Anita Mui, but Anita Mui died of illness at the end of 2003 and she forever missed the movie. Director Zhang Yimou deeply regretted this and decided to put the subtitle "I would like to remember Miss Anita Mui with this film" at the end of the film .
Zhang Ziyi, who plays the blind maiko, lived with a blind girl with a brain tumor for two months in order to play the role of a blind girl. She laughed and said, "Except for the toilet, we are almost inseparable."
The crew spent two thousand dollars to buy local flower seeds in Ukraine and hired more than 80 local flower farmers to sow sunflowers. However, because no one was fertilizing during the SARS period, Zhang Yimou discovered that the sunflowers were not growing well enough when he went to the local filming. Had to re-find a place to shoot .
In the filming, a horse was suddenly struck in a straight run. Takeshi Kaneshiro was unable to dodge the horse and fell to the ground, causing the left knee and two ligaments to be torn. After Takeshi Kaneshiro returned to the crew, the six staff members used bamboo poles to lift his wheelchair to simulate the scene of riding a horse, thus making up the shots of him walking on horseback .