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Original title: Mo gik
Release Date
• USA: May 5, 2006
Budget HKD 6,000,000
BoxOffice: $0.6M
Official Website:
The Promise Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for stylized violence and martial arts action, and some sexual content.
Running Time
2 hours, 8 minutes
Country China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Production Companies
21 Century Shengkai Film, Capgen Investment Group, China Film Group Corporation, Moonstone Entertainment, Show East
Studio Weinstein Company
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Promise
• Wu ji (2005)
• Master of the Crimson Armor
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Drama
Plot: The film follows the intertwined fates of a beautiful princess and the three men who fall in love with her. Unbeknownst to the men, the princess made a pact with a goddess in her youth where she forsake the prospect of true love for The Promise of riches and power. Any man she loves, she will lose, a bargain which has hitherto bore no consequence for the princess, as haughty as she is lovely.But when a slave -- disguised as a mighty general – defends first her honor and then her life with unflinching valor, the princess feels something stir within her for the first time. With the awakening of passion, she realizes with dread what destiny holds for her. Enslaved to the fate that has befallen them, only the truest love of all can alter the course of their
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At times, The Promise feels like a diluted version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Hero (and those films, of course, come from a long line of Chinese martial arts epics). It has the visual style and the martial arts, although they are less important, and less impressive, here. But it is a pretender. Chen's movie promises more than it delivers, doing more things wrong than right....  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
...As it stands, _The_Promise_ is remains just that, a work with genuine potential and great possibilities that are never quite realized.--Michael Dequina
Love is forever out of your reach, declares one of our heartbroken heroes. So it is with the essence of the overly long fever dream that is The Promise. --Jeanne Aufmuth
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| Directed by |
Kaige Chen
Farewell My Concubine, Killing Me Softly, Feng yue |
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Kaige Chen
Farewell My Concubine, The Emperor and the Assassin, Killing Me Softly |
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The City of Golden Armor, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Lan yu | | | |
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Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Constantine, Equilibrium |
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| ...It's an outlook that hopefully also holds true for Chen himself, a once-promising director who, with the trivial and silly The Promise, seems to be continuing down an ill-advised path toward mainstream mediocrity. --Nick Schager (SlantMagazine.com)
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