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.

• Hahn Shin Corporation
• Le Studio Canal+
• Gong Li
• Zhang Fengyi
• Li Xuejian
• Zhiwen Wang
• Sun Zhou
• Chen Kaige
• Pan Changjiang
• Zhao Benshan