ZHANG ZIYI IS EVERYWHERE

Zhang Ziyi's MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is ready to come out in December and eat everyone's Oscar chances for a light snack. Reviews from press screenings have started popping up on Ain't It Cool here and there's a less impressed review here that gets points for comparing MEMOIRS to the Dolph Lundgren/Brandon Lee vehicle SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (the connective tissue is actor Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa who appears in both movies) and accuses MEMOIRS of shot-for-shot stealing a scene from SHOWDOWN. Heavens above!

Zhang's other big movie is Feng Xiaogang's Hamlet-adaptation, THE BANQUET, with music by Tan Dun and action by Yuen Wo-ping. You can read more about it here or take a look at a clip of the movie here where you can hear some of Tan Dun's tracks (which are way better than the music he did for HERO) and see behind the scenes production stuff and bits and pieces of the impressive looking production.

(Thanks to HelloZiyi.us the Zhang Ziyi fansite)