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2005 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 192 members

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision. Read more

Starring Ye Liu, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung
Director Chen Kaige
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema

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The Promise

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

Starring Ye Liu, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Hong Chen, Cheng Qian
Director Chen Kaige
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 42 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 42 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema
Language DVD: Mandarin
Blu-ray: Mandarin
Subtitles DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 27 Apr 2009
Blu-ray: 27 Apr 2009
Production year: 2005
Format DVD

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  • A glorious martial arts fantasy

    • Los Angeles Times
    • Posted 24 Mar 2009

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Excellent movie

    This is one of my favourite foreign films of all time. It is a great example of visual escapism at it's best - costumes, sets and locations are breathtaking. This film is not action packed by any means but what action there is, is well shot and choreographed well. What is amazing also is that japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada learnt the Mandarin language to play this part.

    Oh and by the way 'A customer from Kent ' who gave this film 1 star because he's too lazy to read subtitles on his TV...... don't rent anymore foreign films.

      • A customer from Shefford
      • Posted 30 Aug 2009 15:22

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