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The Promise is a chinois film of genre Drama directed by Chen Kaige released in USA on 5 may 2006 with Jang Dong-gun
The Promise (2005)
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Add to a movie listThe Promise is a 2005 Chinese epic fantasy film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Jang Dong-gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse. It is loosely adapted from The Kunlun Slave, a wuxia romance story written by Pei Xing in the ninth century during the Tang dynasty. Responses to the film were mainly mixed to negative.
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Qingcheng, a starving girl, wanders around the land in search of food. She chances upon a boy, tricks him, steals a mantou from him, and runs away. She encounters the goddess Manshen and accepts an offer to enjoy a wealthy and luxurious life and become the most beautiful woman in the land. However, she has a price to pay: She will never find everlasting and true love. She becomes the King's concubine when she grows up.Actors
Jang Dong-gun
(Kunlun)
Hiroyuki Sanada
(General Guangming)
Nicholas Tse
(Wuhuan)
Cecilia Cheung
(Princess Qingcheng)
Liu Ye
(Snow Wolf)
Anthony Brandon Wong
((voice))
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