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Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) - Wen Jiang, Kiichi Nakai, Xueqi Wang, Ping He

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In the tradition of Akira Kurosawa's Seven samurai, Warriors of Heaven and Earth weaves a thread of battle, comradeship and honour.

Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows two protagonists, Lieutenant Li (Wen Jiang) and Japanese emissary Lai Xi (Kiichi Nakai) - both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the West to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female and child prisoners.

Li and Lai Xi battle, but finally agree to delay their final personal fight until the caravan carrying Wen Zhu and a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful pagoda that attracts the attention of the region's ruthless overlord, Master An (Xueqi Wang). Lai Xi and Lieutenant Li, accompanied by Li's former posse of soldiers, who have forsaken their peaceful new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert, the region's barbaric bandits and the brutality of the overlord's men before they can finally face one another.