Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Zhiwen Wang, Sun Zhou, Chen Kaige, Pan Changjiang, Zhao Benshan, Ding Haifeng, Zhou Xun, Lü Xiaohe, Kong Qinsan, Gu Yongfei, Li Qiang, Li Hongtao
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.