The Promise

The Promise (simplified Chinese: 无极; acceptable Chinese: 無極; pinyin: W�j�; absolutely "Limitless") is a 2005 Chinese ballsy fantasy blur directed by Chen Kaige and starring Jang Dong-gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse. The blur is based on the Wuxia affair The K�un-lun Slave, accounting by P�ei Hsing at the time of the Tang Dynasty.[1]

First appear in acreage China on December 15, 2005,[2] as able-bodied as Hong Kong and Singapore. The Weinstein Company acclimatized it for North American distributions and 3-day examination screenings, but they awash the cine to Warner Independent Pictures. While beneath the ascendancy of TWC, they akin out 19 account of scenes and renamed it Adept of the Crimson Armor. Eventually, it was appear on May 5, 2006 as The Promise.

When it was appear in Asian markets, the army reactions were mixed. In China, accessible acknowledgment was abundantly negative, although it fabricated USD$9 actor dollars in acreage China in the aperture anniversary and HK$8 actor dollars in Hong Kong.[3] The account was accounted to be CN�282~340 actor yuan (USD$35~$42 actor dollars), before the amount of Hero.[4]

Despite the abrogating buzz, it is one of two Chinese films in 2006 to be nominated for Golden Globes Best Foreign Language Blur at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards.

A craving babe alleged Qingcheng meets a goddess alleged Manshen and accepts an action to adore a comfortable activity and become the best admirable woman in the acreage in acknowledgment for actuality clumsy to acquaintance accurate adulation forever. She becomes the King's bedmate aback she grows up.

General Guangming defeats a beyond army of barbarians with alone 3000 men and rushes aback to save the King, who is besieged in the alcazar by the backbiting Duke Wuhuan. He meets Manshen, who tells him that addition cutting his Crimson Armour will accomplish regicide and befoul his reputation. Subsequently, Guangming is attacked and blood-soaked by Wuhuan's apache Snow-Wolf. He asks his bondservant Kunlun to don his armour and save the King, cogent Kunlun that the King is the one afterwards a weapon. Kunlun arrives at the alcazar and mistakes Qingcheng for the King as she is caught and he kills the King instead, who has aloof fatigued his sword. Kunlun avalanche in adulation with Qingcheng and they flee, alone to be cornered at a bluff by Wuhuan and his soldiers.

Kunlun leaps off the bluff and survives. Guangming is affronted as his subordinates had angry on him afterwards assertive that he murdered the King. Kunlun saves his adept and allotment the Crimson Armour. They go to accomplishment Qingcheng from Wuhuan's claws after and Qingcheng avalanche in adulation with Guangming, whom she believes to be the one who leapt off the bluff for her earlier. Kunlun is captured by Wuhuan and Wuhuan realises that it was Kunlun who murdered the King.

While Guangming and Qingcheng advance a blessed activity in the countryside, Kunlun learns from Snow-Wolf that Wuhuan was absolutely the one amenable for the abolition of his ancestors and homeland. Snow-Wolf is absolutely additionally from the aforementioned hometown as Kunlun and he was affected to become Wuhuan's assistant in abhorrence of death. Wuhuan lures Guangming aback to the alcazar and has him imprisoned. He places Guangming, Kunlun and Qingcheng on balloon for regicide and has the alternative to adjudge on their punishments. The captives breach chargeless and appoint Wuhuan in a final action in which both Wuhuan and Guangming are killed. Kunlun advisers Snow-Wolf's aeon bathrobe and he survives admitting accepting been fatally wounded. The goddess Manshen appears and tells Qingcheng that she has assuredly begin her accurate adulation to be Kunlun. Kunlun and Qingcheng fly abroad calm into the far ambit as the blur ends.

Cast

* Jang Dong-Gun as Kunlun

* Cecilia Cheung as Qingcheng

* Hiroyuki Sanada as General Guangming

* Nicholas Tse as Duke Wuhuan

* Chen Hong as Manshen

* Liu Ye as Snow-Wolf