In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
Tony Leung
as Chang Hsien
Sean Lau
as Lei Bully
Zhou Xun
as Liu Yin
Yan Ni
as Lei's Wife
Wu Gang
as Butler Liu
Daniel Wu
as Captain Tsai
Paul Chun Pui
as Liu Wan-yao
Alex Fong Chung-Sun
as Chen Kuo
Tsui Hark
as Warlord
Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu
as Warlord