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The Duke of Mount Deer (2001)

The Duke of Mount Deer poster
Directed by
Wong Jing
Genre
drama television series, wuxia
Country
Hong Kong
Length
40 episodes

How it feels

A witty young man from a brothel navigates the power struggles of the Qing dynasty in Beijing. He finds himself working for both the emperor and a secret revolutionary group at the same time.

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What happens

The Duke of Mount Deer (小寶與康熙) is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese wuxia-comedy television series adapted from the novel The Deer and the Cauldron by Jin Yong. It was first broadcast in 2000 in Taiwan and followed by subsequent broadcasts in other regions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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