Cinematic Siblings

Sometimes, films from the same director seem to be in dialogue with one another. But connections, from unmistakable to the unexpected, also exist between works based on the same story or films with similar thematic or aesthetic concerns. Our Cinematic Siblings invite audiences to discover how no film stands alone.

King Hu’s wuxia epic Touch of Zen is the spiritual forefather of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers. From its Buddhist approach to entire fight sequences in bamboo forests, many elements of some of the best Chinese-language martial arts films from the last 25 years were directly inspired by King Hu’s masterpiece.