Wu ji

Wu ji

  • Director: Kaige Chen
  • Writer: Kaige Chen,Tan Cheung
  • Countries of origin: China, South Korea, United States
  • Language: Mandarin
  • Release date: May 5, 2006
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Master of the Crimson Armor
  • "THE PROMISE" is an oriental fantasy epic film directed by Chen Kaige , starring Jang Dong Gun , Duke Sanada , CC , Nicholas Tse , and Liu Ye . The film landed in Chinese theaters on December 15, 2005. 
    The film tells the story of a poor child who is favored by the goddess of fate and becomes the most beautiful princess in the world, but the curse of fate will never get true love. The humble Kunlun slave loves her sincerely, and at the cost of her own life, she gets a new choice right. The process of getting true love was not so smooth. Princess Allure had to engage in an earth-shattering love wrestling between North Duke Wuhuan, General Guangming, and slave Kunlun. 

    Details

    • Release date May 5, 2006
    • Filming locations Hengdian World Studios, Heng Dian, China
    • Production companies 21 Century Shengkai Film, Capgen Investment Group, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)

    Box office

    Budget

    HK$60,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $669,625

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $272,838

    Gross worldwide

    $30,995,924

    Movie reviews

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    • By Laurie 2022-12-30 02:23:34

      infinite self-perception

      The supreme secret contained in Wuji: The truth is supreme. Wuhuan - there will never be a person who is full of joy and shadow; Bright - there is a person who is proud and upright without fear. Ghost wolf may be most people, "I have not hurt anyone, sorry for anyone", but it was not until the last moment that he realized that he was the one who was sorry. And the almost primitive Kunlun may have been a slave for a while, but eventually stood up and gradually found what he longed for. Under...

    • By Ladarius 2022-12-28 20:03:59

      We owe Promise an embarrassed look.

      Late at night, I read a venomous movie review and came here to watch this movie that was labeled "bad movie". Indeed, in the past ten years, so many commercial films with money-making have turned out, and we really owe Wuji an apology. When I was in junior high school ten years ago, I didn't understand Wuji, but I just thought Manshen was amazing. Maybe I haven't understood it now, but I really appreciate this movie.

           As far as the picture is concerned, at least every frame is...

    • By Sandra 2022-12-27 06:38:50

      5. Characters >> Wuhuan|| Wuji's secret

      foreword

      I wrote a long-winded foreword before, with a lot of textual research, and it has been written separately (see "Background - Wuhuan and the King" ). It mainly tells about some backgrounds that may be related to the creation of "Promise", and the reasons why Chen Kaige stubbornly uses various symbols to parallel multi-threaded narrative regardless of the smoothness of watching the movie.

      In short, there is a shadow of the French...

    • By Nikki 2022-12-25 06:34:36

      Not high expectations, not much disappointment

      Since "Hero", I have lost my appetite for the so-called domestic blockbuster, so I don't have too high expectations for "Wuji": I have endured watching "Hero" for two hours, how can "Wuji" be worse?
      Really reconciled.
      The actors' performances are all quite good. The performances of Sanada Hiroyuki, Zhang Dongjian, and Nicholas Tse are all tense, and of course they are very exaggerated stage accents. I don't know why Chen Kaige is so good at this. Wang Yi in "Wuji" opened his mouth,...

    • By Delia 2022-12-18 14:08:48

      They are getting lazy to think

      I find more and more that they are less and less lazy to think.
      I admit that it is really hard for them to win investment, perform stunts, build a luxurious team, and travel around the country and even the world to film scenes. As they said, how much effort they put into it, after a lot of hardships, it seems that it is more difficult than a single person A working old farmer has suffered more than a chauffeur in the wind and the sun.
      But I have to say, they are getting lazy. Too lazy...

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    • By Jermaine 2023-09-28 00:03:35

      What a wonderful work this is, there is no time to read it in its...

    • By Gail 2023-09-26 02:37:15

      From that young and ignorant self to the third time, I finally have the confidence to say that Wuji is a bad...

    • By Connie 2023-09-12 06:16:31

      When I was a child, I watched it in Central 6, from Wuji to Legend of the Demon Cat, Chen Kaige's films are always gorgeous, with scattered stories without logic or theme. I think the subject is profound, but in reality it is very shallow and delusional or even has no subject. Director Chen, if you really can't listen to Li Chengru's true representation of our audience's opinions, I hope that you will not direct the work in the future, but be the art director and guide for the film directly....

    • By Rosario 2023-09-11 14:21:52

      Let the four old men in the dormitory laugh like the girls...

    • By Oswaldo 2023-09-10 06:15:29

      Extremely boring, fake and...

    Movie plot

    A little girl was looking for food among the corpses on the battlefield. A distinguished boy said that if she agreed to be his slave, then he would give her something to eat. The little girl accepted, but quickly broke her promise and ran away with food to find her mother. When running into the dark, the little girl met a beautiful witch. The witch asked: "Do you want to be the princess that men all over the world want to pursue? But...
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    Behind the scenes

    The opening scene of the film full of dialogue between God and Xiao Qingcheng was shot in the 2000 square meter Beijing Film Studio No. 2, which is the largest studio in Asia.
    The Begonia Abode that appeared in the film was set up and shot on-site in Shangri-La, Yunnan. However, the first time spent 2 million yuan to build the building was not completed, and welding quality problems occurred and it could not be used. What appears in the...
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    Evaluation action

    The picture is commendable. In terms of visual enjoyment, Chen Kaige showed his extraordinary strength to his old rival Zhang Yimou. The story, compared to the emptiness of "Hero" and the thinness of "Ambush on Ten Sides", Chen Kaige's love and lies are indeed much better. Chen Kaige used "THE PROMISE" to show the leap in the quality of Chinese movies. Not to mention the tranquility and beauty in "Mirror Flowers, Water and Moon", the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Goddess Manshen: Once you have accepted your destiny, nothing can alter it unless time flows backwards, snow falls in the spring, and the dead come back to life.