Movie: An Empress and the Warriors (2008)

• Director: Siu-Tung Ching
• Release Date: 19 March 2008 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: James Yuen (screenplay) & Cheung Tan (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: 99 min
• Country: Hong Kong , China
• Genre: Action , Drama , Romance , War  
• MPAA: Rated R for some battle violence.

“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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>”