The Promise (2005 film)

The Promise
Theatrical release poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese無極
Simplified Chinese无极
Literal meaninglimitless
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinwújí
Directed byChen Kaige
Written byChen Kaige
Charcoal Tan
Produced byChen Kaige
Jiang Tao
Chen Rao
StarringJang Dong-gun
Hiroyuki Sanada
Cecilia Cheung
Nicholas Tse
Liu Ye
Chen Hong
CinematographyPeter Pau
Choi Shung-fai
Edited byLi Fang
Zhou Ying
Music byKlaus Badelt
Production
companies
China Film Group Corporation
Beijing Film
Beijing 21st Century Shengkai Ltd.
Capgen Investment Group
Moonstone Entertainment Inc.
Distributed byChina Film Group Corporation
Release date
  • 15 December 2005 (2005-12-15)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
Budget$35 million
Box office$31 million

The Promise is a 2005 Chinese epic fantasy film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Jang Dong-gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, and Nicholas Tse. It is loosely adapted from The Kunlun Slave, a wuxia romance story written by Pei Xing in the ninth century during the Tang dynasty.[1] Responses to the film were mainly mixed to negative.

  1. ^ Liu, James J.Y. (1967). The Chinese Knight Errant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-226-48688-5.