投名狀 Warlords

Broadcast Year: 2007

Title: 投名狀
Warlords

Jet Li as Pang Qing Yun
Andy Lau as Zhao Er Hu
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Jiang Wu Yang
Xu Jinglei as Mi Lan

Plot:

In the year 1850, the suffering of the Chinese people under the corrupt rule of the Qing dynasty set the stage for the Taiping Rebellion. General Pang Qing Yun was badly defeated in a battle against the rebels. Jiang Wu Yang takes Pang in and shows him to Zhao Er Hu. After a Qing troop pillages Zhao's village, causing devastation. Pang convinces Zhao and his bandits to join the Qing army. Jiang agrees to the proposal under the condition that he joins their brotherhood. With the help of Zhao, Jiang and their bandits, Pang establishes his power in the name of countering the Taiping rebels. As his forces grow more powerful over the years, he is soon corrupted by his hunger for power. As a result, the brotherhood collapses. Pang;s ruthlessness and his desire for Zhao's wifem leads inevitably to his murder of Zhao...