2003
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Wuxia, Drama
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China
After years under the service of the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi, a Japanese emissary, wishes to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to capture wanted criminals. The only way for him to go back to Japan is to capture and execute Lt. Li, an ex-soldier, who is wanted by the emperor for his mutiny against the emperor army.
Li and Lai Xi will finally meet, but agree to delay their final fight until Li finish his agreement to bring back to safety a caravan carrying a Buddhist monk. However to Li’s ignorance, the monk is secretly carrying a sacred and powerful pagoda that attracts the attention of a region’s ruthless overlord. Followed by his former friends soldiers, Li will face the cruelty of the desert, the region’s barbaric bandits and the brutality of the overlord’s men before he can finally face his ultimate fight with Lai Xi.
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Director :
He Ping
Cast :
Jiang Wen, Nakai Kiichi, Vickie Zhao, Wang Xueqi