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    Director: Chen Kaige
    Spouse: Hong Chen
    Personal Quotes: "For me, the project I would most like to do someday would be about the Cultural Revolution. I've never bothered to come up with a story because no film on that subject would ever be sanctioned today. But tomorrow things might be different." "It is a country that has no past. Political regimes systematically robbed us of history and it's only now that we are beginning to get it back." Master Pieces: The Promise(2005), Together(2002), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
  • Genre: Martial Arts
  • Budget: 340m RMB / US$40m
  • Date of Premiere: December 2005
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  • Plot
    An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves.
    Highlights
  • Top Director Not Amused by Spoof

  • Arguably the best-known film director in China spent 340 million yuan (US$42 million) on his new release only to help a young, self-made multimedia editor recycle it into his own comic show, which became an instant success.
     
     
     
     
    Lineup

  • Cecilia Cheung

  • Crushed part of her vertebra during a stunt-gone-wrong for an event in a charity concert, and nearly snapped her spinal cord in the beginning of 2002.

  • Chen Hong

  • Date of birth 1968, Jiangxi, China Actress - filmography: The Promise (2005), Together (2002), A Story of Xiangxiang (1996), The Conqueror Hong Fen (1994), Blush Qing Die (1994)
    Cast

  • Jang Dong-Kun

  • Date of birth: 7 March 1972, Yongsangu Seoul, Korea Actor - filmography: The Promise(2005), Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo(2004), Hae anseon(2002), Lost Memories(2002)

  • Hiroyuki Sanada

  • Nickname: Duke Date of birth: 12th October, 1960, Tokyo. Hiroyuki Sanada made his film debut when he was 5 in 1965. Sanada's father died when he was 11.
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