Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (1989)

Original title

秦俑

Directed by

Ching Siu-tung

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, romantic comedy film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

Asia-Pacific Film Festival

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A court lady and a soldier from ancient China fall in love. The soldier is turned into a terracotta statue and awakens in the modern day where he meets an actress who looks like his lost love.

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What happens

A Terra-Cotta Warrior, also known as Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior, is a 1990 Hong Kong film based on the novel by Lilian Lee, directed by Ching Siu-tung, starring Zhang Yimou and Gong Li. Tsui Hark also got credited as the special effect supervisor. The film is about a forbidden love between a court lady and a soldier of the Qin dynasty. Gong Li plays the female protagonists Dong'er (the court girl) and Zhu Lili (the actress), and Zhang Yimou plays the terracotta warrior Meng Tianfang. This is one of the only two films where Zhang Yimou has a leading role, the other being Wu Tianming's Old Well. Warner Bros. has included the film in the catalogue of Warner Archive Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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