"In the Qing

Jia Zhangke film "pure commercial films," is better than Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tian to the soundness of some, who both looks and then a commercial and art films, while Jia Zhangke from the "World" to "Still Life" to "24 Cities" has already highlighted the more to the more concentrated the commercial tendency. "In the Qing Dynasty" may be his first to a springboard for business transformation, especially in the film all over the home and the foreign land of this story, and Jia Zhangke hope that the story bigger, the pattern of open up, shoot a film really be bought, . This time together Hong Kong directing and Johnnie, but also showed that he really had such a long-cherished wish.

"In the Qing Dynasty" is a love martial arts drama, the director Jia Zhangke, producer Johnnie To, and formed a key creative writer Han's "Iron Triangle", the story took place in the Qing Dynasty, in order to demonstrate the martial arts as a prelude to changes in volatile times. The film no shortage of action to fight elements of drama and humor, but also his first commercial production of pure way, but in the business behind, Jia Zhangke is still reluctant to give up the art of the previous considerations. In his view, there are limits to force the film to explain it is a martial art in modern civilization under the impact of a vulnerability and limitations. As before the World Expo in Shanghai Jia Zhangke Ganpai of a "Shanghai Legend", so this "in the Qing Dynasty," the cast has not been confirmed.