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An Empress and the Warriors

Original title: Jiang shan mei ren
  • 2008
  • R
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
4.2K
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Kelly Chen, Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, and Xiaodong Guo in An Empress and the Warriors (2008)
Martial ArtsWuxiaActionDramaHistoryRomance

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

  • Director
    • Siu-Tung Ching
  • Writers
    • James Yuen
    • Tan Cheung
    • Tin-Nam Chun
  • Stars
    • Kelly Chen
    • Donnie Yen
    • Leon Lai
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    4.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Siu-Tung Ching
    • Writers
      • James Yuen
      • Tan Cheung
      • Tin-Nam Chun
    • Stars
      • Kelly Chen
      • Donnie Yen
      • Leon Lai
    • 24User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 nominations total

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    Kelly Chen
    Kelly Chen
    • Yen Feier
    Donnie Yen
    Donnie Yen
    • Muyong Xuehu
    Leon Lai
    Leon Lai
    • Duan Lan Quan
    Xiaodong Guo
    Xiaodong Guo
    • Wu Ba
    • (as Guo Xiao Dong)
    Zhenhai Kou
    Zhenhai Kou
    • Teng Bochang
    • (as Kou Zhen Hai)
    Weihua Liu
    • King Yan
    • (as Liu Wei Hua)
    Shan Zhang
    • King Zhao
    • (as Zhang Shan)
    Zhihui Chen
    • Diao Erbao
    Jie Yan
    • Prince Zhao
    • (as Yan Jie)
    Bo Zhou
    • Ao Jia
    • (as Zhou Bo)
    Bing Bo
    • Unnamed character
    • (as Bo Bing)
    Guoyi Chen
    • Yan's official
    • (as Chen Guo Yi)
    Kang Chen
    • Assassin
    • (as Chen Kang)
    Liang Chen
    • Unnamed character
    • (as Chen Liang)
    Limin Deng
    Limin Deng
    • Yan's deputy
    • (as Deng Li Min)
    Hongqing Guo
    • Yan's deputy
    • (as Guo Hong Qing)
    Tian Hao
    • Yan's deputy
    • (as Hao Tian)
    Daichi Harashima
    • Muyong Xuehu (child)
    • Director
      • Siu-Tung Ching
    • Writers
      • James Yuen
      • Tan Cheung
      • Tin-Nam Chun
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Quotes

      Teng Bochang: There'll be no fighting in the hall of swords!

    • Connections
      Referenced in Already Famous (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Flying With Dreams
      Music by Mark Lui

      Lyrics by Xi Lin

      Performed by Kelly Chen & Leon Lai

    User reviews24

    Featured review
    4/10

    Not even close to expectations, truly bad editing and text lines...Really wasted disappointing movie, if not, one of the worst movies I ever watched.

    Costume design is top-notch, but that is also it!!! Even thought they used great casts in it; like Donnie Yen, Leon Lai and Kelly Chen.

    The feeling of awfulness came when I watched this movie right from the start.

    The pace of the movie is really really annoying to watch, surely in the first 10 minutes of the movie I felt it. This movie is SO B GRADE.

    Yep, u can feel that this movie was made with a high intensive schedule and again with a Hong Kong movie feeling. Due to the fact the movie is putted together like it is crammed into a microwave. Fast and sleazy in 99 minutes!!! I hate the director or editor really now after I watched this movie. There is nothing that captures my interest , fight scenes nor even got the attitude to be memorable in my head. I don't even think I would watch this one ever again.

    The story: itself, oh man, very unappealing to watch it without thinking "BOOOoring!!!" Even thou the movie has got some "magic" or romantic time, but that is quickly wasted by the fight scenes and lousy text lines with no-nonsense-combating-filling-up-the-movie-fight-sequences. (yep ,feels like chewing gum after a long time in your mouth, u want to spit it out because it starts to nerving u)

    The music: no memorable lines or even attractive interesting soundtracks, very fast to forget about. The editing and also some non-aunthentic computer made scenes makes this movie stinks so hard so that the music would not live up the whole picture anymore. I think that the music is only there because it has to fill up some gap.

    The characters: OK, I would watch how the cast did in this movie, but that would be also it! There is very little to satisfy when u watched it...

    The dialogs's: Truly hilarious, some not-logical sentences that comes with emotions are really put in a wrong way, even the timing for some sentences is not used correctly to get an emphasized feeling!!! Not even good to watch this movie I must say, only disappointed, annoyed and sleepy...

    Only one nomination is granted and that's for the costume design, but they over do it in the film like its kind of 'Lord of The Rings'and '300' which they almost hard copy it with no originality. So don't bother, go watch another director and/or movie!
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    • Apr 9, 2008
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    • Release date
      • March 19, 2008 (Hong Kong)
    • Countries of origin
      • Hong Kong
      • China
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • The Kingdom and the Beauty
    • Production companies
      • Beijing Poly-bona Film Publishing Company
      • BIG Pictures
      • United Filmmakers Organization (UFO)
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $9,323,473
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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