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MY KINGDOM

DA WU SHENG

By Xiaosong GAO, Sammo HUNG (ACTION DIRECTOR)

CELESTIAL PICTURES LIMITED - as PROD

Martial arts - Completed 2011

MY KINGDOM is a sweeping story of love, honor and revenge set against the backdrop of Chinese opera during the heyday in 1920s Shanghai

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Martial arts
- Countries
- HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Xiaosong GAO, Sammo HUNG (ACTION DIRECTOR)
- Writer(s)
- Jingzhi ZOU, Xiaosong GAO
- Cast
- Chun WU, Geng HAN, Barbie HSU
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-F2C7-0000-2-0000-0000-V
- Producer(s)
- Andre MORGAN (DW Films Limited), Zoe CHEN (DW Films LImited)
- Synopsis
- In the closing days of the 19th century, the Prince Regent of the crumbling Qing Dynasty orders the mass execution of the entire Meng clan. Before his beheading in a crowded Beijing marketplace, the Meng clan leader vows that his family will avenge this travesty of justice. Awaiting his death, a five-year-old Meng boy named Erkui bravely sings an aria. The power and purity of his voice touches the onlookers including opera star Master Yu Shengying and his seven-year-old pupil Guan Yilong. Deeply moved, Master Yu rescues the boy and the two orphans, Yilong and Erkui, become brothers.
  Years later, Master Yu wins the coveted golden "Da Wu Sheng" (“The Mightiest Warrior”) plaque from the Prince Regent, but subsequently loses it in a duel with his archrival Master Yue Jiangtian. Banished from the stage upon his loss, Master Yu spends his time training Yilong and Erkui in Peking Opera and martial arts, perfecting their skills. When the boys grow into men, they set off for Shanghai to pursue revenge and reclaim the plaque from Master Yue.
  Once they reach Shanghai, they quickly defeat Master Yue, reclaiming not only the plaque but also becoming the new masters of Yue’s opera troupe. Almost overnight, they become sensations of the Shanghai opera scene along with Master Yue’s protégé and former lover, the beautiful actress Xi Mulan. But soon, their collective pasts catch up with them and all three ends up in a complex web of love, lust, deceit and betrayal, ultimately ending in tragedy.
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 01, 2010