query: original_language_of_work house of flying daggers
supports: Pinyin, or Hàny Pnyn, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of Cantonese music made primarily in Hong Kong, and also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. Originating in the 1970s, Cantopop reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before its slow decline in the 2000s. The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock", a term first used in 1974. During its height, Cantopop had spread to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Japanese, Okinawan and Chinese: , romaji: "Kaneshiro Takeshi", Pinyin: "Jnchéng W", pronounced , born October 11, 1973) is a Taiwanese-Japanese actor and singer. Manhua are Chinese comics produced in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Andy Lau Tak-wah, BBS, MH, JP (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop. Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is a composite performance art that is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradually over more than a thousand years, reaching its mature form in the 13th century during the Song Dynasty. Early forms of Chinese drama are simple, but over time they incorporated various art forms, such as music, song and dance, martial arts, acrobatics, as well as literary art forms to become Chinese opera. A film genre (or ) is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (namely, serious, comic, etc.). Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism. The basic genres include fiction and documentary, from which subgenres have emerged, such as docufiction and docudrama. Other subgenres include the courtroom and trial-focused drama known as the legal drama. Types of fiction which may seem unrelated can also be combined to form hybrid subgenres, such as the melding of horror and comedy in the "Evil Dead" films. Other popular combinations are the romantic comedy and the action comedy film. Zhang Ziyi (pronounced ; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress and model. She is considered one of the Four Dan Actresses of China, and the most well-known Asian actress in the West. Wuxia (, IPA: ), which literally means "martial hero", is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms such as Chinese opera, manhua, films, television series and video games. It forms part of popular culture in many Chinese-speaking communities around the world. Martial arts film is a film genre. A subgenre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters. They are usually the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often are a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently featured in training scenes and other sequences in addition to fights. Martial arts films commonly include other types of action, such as hand-to-hand combats, stuntwork, chases, and gunfights. Zhang Yimou (born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with "Red Sorghum". House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau , Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro . Unlike other wuxia films , it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film . The use of strong colors is a signature of Zhang Yimou 's work . Several scenes in a bamboo forest completely fill the screen with green . Near the end of the film , a fight scene is set in a blizzard . The actors and blood are greatly highlighted on a whiteout background . Another scene uses bright yellow as a color theme . The costumes , props , and decorations were taken almost entirely from Chinese paintings of the period , adding authenticity to the look of the film . The film opened in limited release within the United States on 3 December 2004 , in New York City and Los Angeles , and opened on additional screens throughout the country two weeks later . The film was chosen as China 's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2004 ; but was not nominated in that category though it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography .
candidates: basic cantonese chinese indonesia japanese standard chinese
answer: standard chinese