Bodyguards and Assassins

Dec 18, 2009

2h 19m

★ 6.8

To save a nations future, they must protect one man from its past.

Overview

In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing dynasty. But when they find out that assassins have been sent to kill him, they assemble a group of protectors to prevent any attacks.

Genres

Drama

Action

History

Production Companies

China Film Group Corporation

Bona Film Group

We Distribution

Bodyguards and Assassins Trailers

Cast

Sum Chung-Yang

Donnie Yen

Li Yu-Tang

Wang Xueqi

Prof. Chen Xiaobai

Tony Leung Ka-fai

Ah Si / Deng Si-Di

Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung

General Yan Xiao-Guo

Hu Jun

HK Police Chief Shi Mi-Fu

Eric Tsang Chi-Wai

Fang Hong

Chris Lee Yuchun

Yuet-yu

Fan Bingbing

Ah Suen

Zhou Yun

Stinky Tofu

Mengke Bateer

Li Chung-Guang

Edison Wang

Prince Lau Luk-Yak / Liu Yu-Bai

Leon Lai

Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.

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