秦俑A Terra-Cotta Warrior1989 from 孙艺珍 Watch Video

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A Terra-Cotta Warrior, also known as Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior, is a 1989 Hong Kong film based on the novel by Lilian Lee Pik-wah (李碧華), directed by Ching Siu-tung (程小東) and produced by Tsui Hark (徐克), starring Zhang Yi-mou (张艺谋) and Gong Li (巩俐). The film is about a forbidden love between a court lady and a soldier of the Qin Dynasty. Gong Li plays the female protagonists Dong'er (the court girl) and Zhu Lili (the actress), and Zhang Yi-mou plays the terracotta warrior Commander Meng Tian-fang. This is one of the only two films where Zhang Yimou has a leading role, the other being Wu Tianming's Old Well. Warner Bros. has included the film in the catalogue of Warner Archive Collection.<br/><br/>The First Emperor searches for the elixir of immortality, and he despatches 500 teenage boys and girls to help him accomplish this task. One of his soldiers, Commander Meng Tian-fang falls in love with one of the despatched maiden by the name Dong'er. When their forbidden love is exposed, the girl reveals she has found the elusive elixir and secretly gives it to Meng. The emperor orders their execution and the soldier is sentenced to death by being encased alive in clay as a terracotta warrior, only to be reawakened in the 1930s when a struggling actress, Zhu Lili, the reincarnation of the girl who remembers nothing of her past life, accidentally stumbles upon the tomb of the First Emperor. The soldier struggles to adapt to a new era while the two are pursued by archeological looters and thugs.