HONG KONG, June 3 (AP) -- Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has signed on for three movies to be produced by Harvey Weinstein, including a film about Chinese folk heroine Hua Mulan and a remake of Japanese classic "The Seven Samurai", a news report said.

Zhang confirmed she would star in the three movies when she met Weinstein at Cannes, the Chinese-language news Web site Sina.com said Friday.

The report did not say what the subject of the third film would be.

Zhang's roles in both movies will involve her playing women disguised as men, the report said. As Mulan -- a well-known Chinese folk heroine who became the subject of Disney's animation of the same name -- she will play a young girl who goes to battle in place of her ailing father.

In the remake of "The Seven Samurai," Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic, Zhang will play a village girl who dresses as a man to protect herself from bandits, Sina.com said.

Zhang was last seen in Hollywood drama "Memoirs of a Geisha." Her new movie, the Chinese-language, Hamlet-inspired ancient court drama "Ye Yan" ("The Banquet") is due for release later this year.