Director: King Hu
Script: Wang Chong, King Hu
Cinematographer: Chen Chaoyong
Music: Ku Jia Hui
Cast: Li Lihua, Angela Mao, Helen Ma, Tian Feng, Roy Chiao, Bai Ying, Hsu Feng
Production: Golden Harvest
Year: 1973
35 mm, Colour, 107 min
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
We are in China in 1366. These are the last years of the Yuan Mongol dynasty founded hundred years before by Kubilai Khan, grand son of Genghis Khan, for whom Marco Polo had worked. Lead by the monk Chu Yuangchang, to later become the first emperor of the Ming dynasty, a part of the population is revolting against the Mongol oppressor. The provinces of Shantung, Shanxi and Hunan are ruled by Prince Lee Khan, a fine politician and an expert in martial arts. His sister, the dreadful Lee Wan Ehr, has managed to corrupt Chu Yuangchang's counsellor who promised her the plan of attack of the rebels. She will meet him at the grottoes of Shanxi. The prince and his suite had come to the Inn of Spring. Wan Jenmi, its owner, helped by four of her servants, comes to the rebels'aid. Will the all mighty Mongol prince emerge victorious from the rebels ?
