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Release Date: 2009   Duration: 113 min

Cast: Aaron Kwok, Jennifer Tilly, Lei Hao, Shih Chieh King, John Paisley, Cao-Cao, Zhang Tielin, Zhicheng Ding, Lantian Chang, John Paisley, Niu Tien, Zhen Yu Lei ...MORE

Cast: Aaron Kwok, Jennifer Tilly, Lei Hao, Shih Chieh King, John Paisley, Cao-Cao, Zhang Tielin, Zhicheng Ding, Lantian Chang, John Paisley, Niu Tien, Zhen Yu Lei, Zhong Lü ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Biography, World cinema, History, Chinese Movies, Drama, Romance Film, Family Film

"Director Christina Yao’s opulent feature film is a dynastic saga; it is also a passionate love story and a moral tale, based on historical events. The story of the Kangs, a family of bankers, and their banking empire on China’s ‘Wall Street’ spans a period from the Boxer Uprising to the Chinese Revolution and the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. The film begins in 1899. A...  MORE

"Director Christina Yao’s opulent feature film is a dynastic saga; it is also a passionate love story and a moral tale, based on historical events. The story of the Kangs, a family of bankers, and their banking empire on China’s ‘Wall Street’ spans a period from the Boxer Uprising to the Chinese Revolution and the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. The film begins in 1899. A carefree, hedonistic young man is next in line to inherit a banking empire which has hitherto meant very little to him. However, following a tragic abduction, of which his sister-in-law was the victim, this ‘third man’ reluctantly bows to his authoritative father’s iron will. Keen to prepare his offspring for the time when he will take over his financial conglomerate, this powerful banker, Kang, is determined to turn his son into as ruthless a businessman as himself. However, his idealistic son has always called into question his father’s high-handed style of leadership and hard-nosed business principles. The tense relationship between the two men is put under additional strain on account of Kang junior’s undying love for his beautiful young step-mother. She was the first and only love of his life – before his father stole her from him. It is time for him to decide wheth­er he will take the path his father trod before him or whether he will make his own way in life … " Quoting the program notes from the 2009 Berlin Film Festival site. LESS