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Released
2004 · FILM

House of Flying Daggers

Two determined imperial detectives race against a ten‑day deadline to eliminate the elusive leader of the Robin‑hood rebels known as the House of Flying Daggers, risking betrayal and their own morals as they infiltrate the secretive world of a blind dancer who may hold the key to the insurgency.

Directed by
Yimou Zhang
Written by
Feng Li, Bin Wang
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
119 min
Language
ZH
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

In 9th-century China, a corrupt government is at war with a rebel army known as the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior rescues a beautiful rebel from prison in an effort to help her reunite with her comrades, though the situation proves to be more complex than it initially appears.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 67+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Long ChengShot by Xiaoding ZhaoScored by Shigeru UmebayashiDesigned by Tingxiao Huo

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$92.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$92.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $11.1M — 12% of worldwide · International: $81.8M (88%)

Opening weekend: $397K — 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $518K — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 15 theaters

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Also known as

  • House Of Flying Daggersde
  • Shi Mian Mai Fude
  • House of Flying Daggersen
  • La casa de las dagas voladorases
  • Le Secret des poignards volantsfr
  • La foresta dei pugnali volantiit

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