Warlords is an action and adventure film directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan. Cast: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. Warlords is set to be released on April 2, 2010 (USA) by Magnet Releasing. In the movie, set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from an helpless village, the three men take an oath to become “blood brothers,” pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-Lei).
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This is a really good production from 2007. It's a remake of Chang Cheh's 1973 Shaw Brothers picture, BLOOD BROTHERS. John Woo was an AD on that earlier film. The same storyline was shot in '71 as OATH OF DEATH (also a Shaw production). Also a Shaw picture, that version was more of a gory exploitation movie with lots of action and sex thrown into the mix. The Chang Cheh version is the one that became famous, though. It played theaters and television here under the title DYNASTY OF BLOOD.
It's nice to see the newer film will be getting some US exposure. Thanks for posting this, Damin.