| cast: wei zhao; jaycee chan; rongguang yu; jiao xu; jun hu; kun chen; vitas; zhou sun; yuxin liu; jiuzhe li; guangcheng song; shu li; hongjiang hou; changsheng liu; min xu... synopsis: hua mulan, a young woman who dresses as a man to fight in the war in place of her father. mulan lives with her aging father hua hu, a former soldier for the northern wei dynasty. one day, envoys from the emperor arrive, announcing that an army is being mustered to fight off an invasion by the nomadic rouran. as her father prepares to again go to war, mulan, in the middle of the night, takes his armor and his sword and takes his place. in camp, she meets and befriends several other soldiers, including xiaohu, a fellow villager who recognizes mulan but promises to keep her gender a secret. she also meets wentai, an officer who takes a liking to the young soldier. mulan's identity is at jeopardy, however, when mulan admits to stealing a jade pendant owned by another soldier to avoid participating in a strip search. scheduled for execution, she is only saved when wentai loosens her binds during a surprise attack by rouran. rather than escaping, mulan proves her bravery when she turns the tide of battle by killing the enemy general. mulan's exploits are rewarded and she and wentai are promoted through the ranks of the army, eventually reaching the status of general. despite their victories, wentai realizes that mulan is still too emotionally attached to both himself and to her men, and fakes his ... |
