At a Glance

Lavish martial arts epic in the tradition of CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS from the director of ASSEMBLY, Feng Xiaogang.

Detailed Information

As beautiful as she is young and as limber as she is smart, Empress Wan can launch a thousand ships with her charm and fight a hundred soldiers with her sword. But something is lacking in her life. Unfulfilled in her royal boudoir, she harbours forbidden desires for her stepson Wu Luan.

When the Emperor dies all of a sudden and his virile younger brother Li succeeds the throne, Wan shocks everyone by agreeing to marry him, convinced that this is the only way to protect her stepson while sealing her own position in the court. But Li is no fool. Determined to silence Wu Luan, Emperor Li arranges a lavish banquet to mask his murderous intentions, not knowing that many other also have their own plans to hatch.

The Pandora’s Box is opened, and all hell breaks loose. No-one is left unscathed…