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The Banquet, released on DVD in the United States as Legend of the Black Scorpion, is a 2006 wuxia drama film. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was directed by Feng Xiaogang and stars Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu and Zhou Xun. It is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 10th century China.
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China has been striving to establish itself as a global force in the film industry over the past few decades, much like in other sectors of the economy. This trend in early 21st Century reflected with large number of increasingly lavish and ambitious Chinese historical spectacles aimed at overshadowing the previously unrivaled Hollywood blockbusters. This does not always result in significant success, but even China…More
