An Empress and the Warriors

(2008)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 130 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, History

Year: 2008

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: 程小東

Cast: 陳慧琳, Донни Йен, 黎明, Го Сяо Дун, Kau Jan-Hoi, 张山, Liu Wei-Hua, Peng Zhi, Чэнь Чжи Хуэй, Янь Цзе

Plot

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

Can a kingdom change its nature? Yan, one of the Ten Kingdoms, is constantly at war. Yan's emperor dies from a battle wound and a general's treachery. His successor is unclear: his daughter Feier, who would be the kingdom's first empress; his favorite, Xuehu, a warrior of noble heart but not noble blood; and, Hu Ba, the ambitious traitor. Xuehu is Feier's protector and teaches her how to be a warrior queen. Hu's followers plot her failure, first in a kidnapping plot, then in a coup. Feier is saved from the kidnap attempt by Duan Lanquan, an ingenious hermit with a shrouded past. He treats her wound and gives her a vision of a different kind of kingdom. Can his dream become hers?