Fantasy · Drama
The Promise
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess, she regrets her promise, for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy.
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Top Cast
Cecilia Cheung
Princess Qingcheng
Liu Ye
Snow Wolf
Chen Hong
Goddess Manshen
Cheng Qian
The Emperer
Jang Dong-gun
Kunlun
Hiroyuki Sanada
General Guangming
Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung
Wuhuan
Yu Jinwei
Ye Li
Directed by
Chen Kaige
Production
Warner Independent Pictures
Salon Films
China Film Group CorporationReviews
TheTenth
4/25/2018
Two young kids try to scrounge food on a battlefield. The girl uses cunning to get a cake the boy found. As she flees with it she drops it in the water. A female spirit offers her a deal : if she never find happy love, she will never be hungry (= rich) again. She accepts. General Guangming (Hiroyuki Sanada) is victorious in battle once again. He meets the spirit (in human form) that tells him someone will kill the king and stain his honor. He is wounded but is rescued by a slave, Kunlun (Dong-Gun Jang). He sends him to the palace with order to save the king, describing him as the only one without a weapon. Confused, he kills the king and escapes with Qinsheng (Cecilia Cheung), they are surrounded by soldiers and agrees to jump off the cliff to save Qinsheng. General Guanming is faced by
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