Blade dance: from Classic to Modern without Zhang Ziyi (whew)

When I fist uploaded clip as was from youku (China), I was greeted with one of those “matched third party“ notices. Curious, I opened it up only to discover that the glued in soundtrack was from that all-time low of Zhang Yimou’s “Hong Kong“ school films, :“House of Flying Daggers“ (20o04)- the name itself says it all: there is no such a title or even vocabulary in Chinese. The film quoted is/was “Simian maifu“ (Cornered), from Shimian maifu (from “Water Margin), which as a trad opera had no women dancing