Historical Epic Movies

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Bang Rajan Thailand 2000 Tanit Jitnukul (Director) Winai Kraibutr Bongkoj Khongmalai Bin Binluerit Jaran Ngamdee Slightly messy but dramatic and gory epic (Monday, February 28, 2005)
	Genghis Khan Mongolia 2000 Great production values, lavish epic (Sunday, July 7, 2002)
	The Messenger: Joan Of Arc France 1999 Luc Besson (Director) Milla Jovovich Interminable (Monday, October 28, 2002)
	The Emperor's Shadow China 1996 Zhou Xiaowen (Director) Jiang Wen Ge You Xu Qing Ge Zhijun Wang Qingxiang Di Guoqiang Wang Ning Shu Yaoxuan Lu Wei (Writer) Zhao Ji-Ping (Soundtrack) Lu Gengxin (Cinematographer) Zhao Jiping (Soundtrack) A beautiful intimate epic (Sunday, March 3, 2024)
	Heaven And Earth Japan 1990 Waste of time (theirs and mine) (Thursday, July 1, 2004)
	Ran (Chaos) Japan 1985 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryû Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Hisashi Igawa William Shakespeare (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa despairs at the human condition (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Burning Of The Imperial Palace Hong Kong 1983 Li Han-Hsiang (Director, Writer) Liu Xiao-Qing Tony Leung Ka-Fai Hong Kwan Chan Wah Dramatic telling of the end of Chinese imperial rule (Monday, October 16, 2000)
	The Blood Brothers Hong Kong 1973 Chang Cheh (Director, Writer) Lau Kar-Leung (Action Director) Tang Chia (Action Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) David Chiang Ti Lung Chen Kuan-Tai Ching Li Ching Miao Wong Ching-Ho Tin Ching Fan Mei-Sheng Danny Lee Sau-Yin Hsu Sung-Ho Yuen Wo-Ping Chiang Tao Tang Tak-Cheung I Kuang (Writer) Kung Mu-To (Cinematographer) Frankie Chan (Soundtrack) The best Chang Cheh I've seen so far (Saturday, March 29, 2003)
	All Men Are Brothers Hong Kong 1973 Chang Cheh (Director, Writer) Wu Ma (Director) Lau Kar-Leung (Action Director) Lau Kar-Wing (Action Director) Chan Chuen (Action Director) Tang Chia (Action Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) David Chiang Fan Mei-Sheng Chen Kuan-Tai Danny Lee Sau-Yin Ti Lung Wang Chung Wang Kuang-Yu Yu Feng Zhu Mu Bolo Yeung Ku Feng Tetsuro Tamba Bruce Tong Yen Shi-Kwan Fung Hak-On I Kuang (Writer) Frankie Chan (Soundtrack) Kuang Han-Lu (Cinematographer) Less fun than I remembered (Sunday, October 1, 2023) Great production values and lots of fun (Monday, January 19, 2004)
	The 14 Amazons Hong Kong 1972 Ching Gong (Director) Tung Shao-Yung (Director, Cinematographer) Ching Siu-Tung (Action Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Lisa Lu Ivy Ling Po Lily Ho Shu Pei-Pei Yueh Hua Wang Ping Liu Wu-Chi Karen Yip Li Ching Tina Chin Fei Ou-Yang Sha-Fei Wong Gam-Fung Betty Ting Pei Ha Ping Chen Yan-Yan Tsung Hua Fan Mei-Sheng Huang Chung-Hsing Tien Feng Wang Hsieh James Nam Lo Lieh Bolo Yeung Chan Shen Wang Fu-Ling (Soundtrack) Zhou Lan-Ping (Soundtrack) Hua Shan (Cinematographer) Classic epic (Monday, February 27, 2006)