Goofs for
Ying xiong (2002) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning when Nameless first walks into the courtyard and the camera pans back and forth you can clearly see the line of soldiers is only a couple of people deep. It is possible to see daylight between their legs, however when shot is shown from above the fact the entire scene is filled with soldiers would have made this impossible.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nameless shows his accuracy with the sword using the white calligraphy brush among other calligraphy brushes, calligraphy brushes are clearly shown falling beneath the white calligraphy brush. Yet when the camera pulls back, the other calligraphy brushes are shown hitting the ground only after Nameless has split the white calligraphy brush.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nameless shows Sky's broken spear to Broken Sword and Snow, he had directed them to meet at midnight - yet when he leaves, it is clearly the middle of the day, as a building is visible in sunlight through the doorway.
  
  

• Continuity: When Nameless comes back to Broken Sword after helping Flying Snow fend off arrows (as they comment on each others calligraphy and swordplay), close-ups of Broken Sword shows he has a piece of hair over his face. In the wide shots, his hair is swept back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nameless goes outside to help Flying Snow to fend off arrows, he shuts the door. Then later we still can see the door open.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: On numerous occasions, it is possible to see the glue that molds the sides of Jet Li's wig to his head (it casts a plastic-like reflection in certain light). It's most noticeable during the fight with Zhang Ziyi ("Moon"), when he traps one of her blades with his sword and there's a close-up of the side of his face, and at the very end, when he's reached the palace gate and turns towards the camera.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the beginning of the movie, subtitles state that China was divided into seven warring states. At the end, the subtitles then state that "the King of Qin" unified China, without specifying which one. Historically, the king that was the one to unite all of the Chinese states was Ying Zheng (later changed name to Shi Huang Di) who inherited the throne from his deceased father at age 13 (as opposed to the age of the king in the movie). At the time, Ying Zheng began to rule China, the seven states were already reduced to two larger states (Qin and Chu) which was later dominated by Qin when Ying Zheng was 22 years old. It is therefore impossible for the same king shown in the movie to be the king that united all the Chinese states, although the end-note is semantically correct.
  
  
• Continuity: The number and position of arrows around the calligraphy school master changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Moon gives Nameless the sword as he is in the horse-drawn cart, she initially approaches from the right, but later is seen to the left of the cart.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where everyone is in white (the white calligraphy brush demonstration scene) there are positioning errors. Snow is on the right, Broken Sword is on the left. While Nameless faces them talking, he looks in the opposite directions.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for The King in fighting scenes.
  
  

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