A starving girl named Qingcheng meets a goddess called Manshen and accepts an offer to enjoy a luxurious life and become the most beautiful woman in the land in return for being unable to experience true love forever. She becomes the King's concubine when she grows up.
General Guangming defeats a larger army of barbarians with only 3000 men and rushes back to save the King, who is besieged in the palace by the traitorous Duke Wuhuan.....
He meets Manshen, who tells him that someone wearing his Crimson Armour will commit regicide and tarnish his reputation. Subsequently, Guangming is attacked and wounded by Wuhuan's assassin Snow-Wolf. He asks his slave Kunlun to don his armour and save the King, telling Kunlun that the King is the one without a weapon. Kunlun arrives at the palace and mistakes Qingcheng for the King as she is unarmed and he kills the King instead, who has just drawn his sword. Kunlun falls in love with Qingcheng and they flee, only to be cornered at a cliff by Wuhuan and his soldiers. Wuhuan promises to leave Qingcheng unharmed, should Kunlun kill himself by jumping off the cliff, which Kunlun does......
Kunlun leaps off the cliff and survives. Guangming is angry as his subordinates had turned on him after believing that he murdered the King. Kunlun saves his master and returns the Crimson Armour. They go to rescue Qingcheng from Wuhuan's clutches later and Qingcheng falls in love with Guangming, whom she believes to be the one who leapt off the cliff for her earlier. Kunlun is captured by Wuhuan who realises that it was he who murdered the King.
While Guangming and Qingcheng lead a happy life in the countryside, Kunlun learns from Snow-Wolf that Wuhuan was actually the one responsible for the destruction of his family and homeland. Snow-Wolf is actually also from the same hometown as Kunlun and he was forced to become Wuhuan's servant in fear of death. Wuhuan lures Guangming back to the palace and has him imprisoned. He places Guangming, Kunlun and Qingcheng on trial for regicide and has the liberty to decide on their punishments. The captives break free and engage Wuhuan in a final battle in which both Wuhuan and Guangming are killed. Kunlun dons Snow-Wolf's immortality robe and he survives despite having been fatally wounded. The goddess Manshen appears and tells Qingcheng that she has finally found her true love. Kunlun and Qingcheng fly away together into the far distance as the film ends.
| Directed by | Chen Kaige |
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| Produced by | Kim Dong-ju Chen Hong |
| Written by | Chen Kaige |
| Starring | Jang Dong-gun Hiroyuki Sanada Cecilia Cheung Nicholas Tse Liu Ye Chen Hong |
| Music by | Klaus Badelt |
| Distributed by | China Film Group (China release) Warner Independent Pictures (U.S. Release) |
| Release date(s) | 15 December 2005 |
| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language Chinese Subs : English Movie 1 : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2XDH4BR5 |
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