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Wu ji (2005)

Wu ji Directed by
Kaige Chen

Writing credits
Kaige Chen

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Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy (more)

Plot Outline: Empowered by the love of a slave (Dong-kun), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision. (more) (view trailer)

User Comments: in the midst of carnage on a battlefield, a desperately hungry girl makes a Faustian bargain with a Chinese goddess and lives lavishly thereafter to regret it (more)

User Rating: *****_____ 5.1/10 (1,232 votes) Vote Here

Credited cast:
Dong-Kun Jang .... Kunlun
Hiroyuki Sanada .... General Guangming
Cecilia Cheung .... Princess Qingcheng
Nicholas Tse .... Wuhuan
Ye Liu .... Snow Wolf
Hong Chen .... Goddess Manshen
Cheng Qian .... The Emperor
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Also Known As:
Mo gik (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
The Promise (International: English title)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for stylized violence and martial arts action, and some sexual content.
Runtime: USA:102 min (cut version) / China:128 min
Country: China / Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea
Language: Mandarin
Color: Color
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) / Taiwan:PG-12 / Singapore:PG (edited version) / France:U / Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) / USA:PG-13 / Singapore:NC-16

Trivia: When this movie's North American distributions were under contracts of Weinstein Company, it was titled "Master of the Crimson Armor" for American appeal. But since they were given to Warner Independent Pictures, they used the English title used in most countries called "The Promise". (more)

Awards: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 5 nominations (more)
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34 out of 56 people found the following comment useful:-
in the midst of carnage on a battlefield, a desperately hungry girl makes a Faustian bargain with a Chinese goddess and lives lavishly thereafter to regret it, 5 January 2006
9/10
Author: mjw51-1 from Canada

I think that this is a very good film, in spite of what many people on this board have said. It is, however, a very different kind of film altogether; it is almost a pure transposition of folk tale to film, with all of the magic and illogic and quirky plotting that such tales involve. Films that attempt to transpose/translate comic books to film do so best when they manage to get the 'tone' of the comic onto the screen and recreate as much as possible the graphic and narrative style of the comic. _The Promise_ does this effectively for folk-tale/myth.

I should probably add that I also like _Operetta Tanuki Goten_, by Suzuki Seijun, which is also working the same territory, albeit in a very different way. Chen's film also references highly formalistic genres like Beijing Opera, hence the acting styles are sometimes very far from the boring "realism" of most contemporary film. Viewers who complain of a lack of realism or believable emotion in films like these should try to climb Rapunzel's hair, and stick to "classic" fare like _Red Sorghum_ and _Farewell My Concubine_, which, brilliant though they are, work in the very familiar idiom of 'Art Film', and provide no difficulty for the kind of viewer who used to say, "I don't watch TV, but I really like _Masterpiece Theatre_".

Yimou and Kaige, with their latest films, are pushing Chinese film, and therefore international film, in new directions altogether, and part of that push is clearly an attempt to escape the heavy yoke of the 'European Art Film' tradition, the 'quirky-Indie-imitation-thereof' tradition, and the narrow confines of the various 'martial arts film' traditions as well. I say, good on them, and shame to those who won't celebrate creative development because it betrays their deeply conservative and traditionalist expectations. As to the suggestion that their recent work betrays a kind of "Hollywood-ification", all I can say is, "huh?"

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