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THE GREAT MAGICIAN

By Derek YEE

Action/Adventure - Completed 2012

For love and for country, a magician pulls his biggest trick out of the hat.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Romance
- Countries
- HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 128 mn
- Director(s)
- Derek YEE
- Cast
- Tony Chiu-Wai LEUNG, Ching-Wan LAU, Xun ZHOU
- Synopsis
- 1916. General Yuan Shi-kai has just died and the Japanese are encroaching. A mysterious magician Zhang Xian catches the eye of local warlord, Lei Daniu, who hopes to use him to win the affections of Liu Yin, a woman he forced into being his seventh concubine. Unbeknownst to him, Zhang is the fiancé of Liu who has been waiting for him to rescue her. Zhang, who was hellbent on destroying Lei, discovers that the man behind the evil deeds is actually his head butler Liu who has joined forces with the Japanese in his misguided efforts to unite the country. To defeat Liu and win back the heart of his love, Zhang pulls out his ultimate magic trick.