Director: Chen Kaige
Assistant Director: Dion Lam
Script: Chen Kaige
Cinematographer: Peter Pau
Sound: Paul Korber
Music: Klaus Badelt
Cast: Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-kun, Hong Chen, Ye Liu, Cheng Qian, Hiroyuki Sanada, Nicholas Tse
Production:
Show East Co Ltd
Tel: 82.2.3446.9625
Fax: 82.2.3446.9620
Mail: [email protected]
Distribution:
TFM Distribution
Bâtiment Central Park
9 rue Maurice Mallet
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
France
Tel: 0033 1.41.41.35.88
Fax: 0033 1.41.41.31.44
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www.tfmdistribution.fr
Year: 2005
35 mm, Colour, 126 min
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
Premiere
On a battle field, young Quinchen is searching for food when she suddenly meets Manshen, the Goddess of destiny. She promises to help the child if she agrees to a pact: "You will be adored by the most powerful men who will put their wealth at your feet. Yet, you will never get true love. If by chance you ever met it, you would lose it at once".
Quinchen has become a queen but cannot change her destiny which prevents her from getting true love. She does not identify it when it appears under the features of Kunlun, a former slave. He will try to free her from her promise, according to the Goddess' prophecy: "Destiny cannot be changed unless time goes into reverse, unless the river flows up to its source and the dead man is brought back to life". However, in the land of legends and eternal love, nothing is impossible.
