Written by Wei Li and Yimou Zhang
Directed by Yimou Zhang
Starring Chao Deng, Li Sun and Ryan Zheng
Running time: 1 hour and 56 minutes

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

The main thing that drove my interest to see Shadow was my love for co-writer/director Yimou Zhang’s 2002 Hero. Sure, this isn’t going to have Jet Li’s charisma but, the mood and visual style of Zhang’s work captivates me. My favorite scene from Hero is the fight set to the zither music in the rain. Shadow is almost ALL zither and rain! (It is referred to as a zither in the subtitles but, I believe, is normally called a guzheng.)