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Over the last decade, we have been offered a bevy of outrageously luscious Asian period dramas ( House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower) that have painted China as a version of Oz in which a fabulous gay wedding is permanently under way.

THE WARLORDS/TAU MING CHONG ***