In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Gong Li
as Lady Zhao
张丰毅
as Jing Ke
李雪健
as Ying Zheng
Zhiwen Wang
as Marquis Changxin
Sun Zhou
as Prince Yan Dan
陈凯歌
as Lu Buwei
Pan Changjiang
as Prison Official
趙本山
as Gao Jianli
丁海峰
as Qin Wuyang
周迅
as Blind Girl
吕晓禾
as General Fan Yuqi
Kong Qinsan
as Liang Shi
