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 | Lady Zhao |
Zhang Fengyi | Jing Ke |
Sun Zhou | Dan, Prince of Yan |
Lü Xiaohe | General Fan Yuqi |
Zhiwen Wang | Marquis Changxin |
Chen Kaige | Lu Buwei |
Gu Yongfei | Queen Mother |
Zhao Benshan | Gao Jianli |
Ding Haifeng | Qin Wuyang |
Pan Changjiang | Prison Official |
Zhou Xun | Blind Girl |
Li Xuejian | Ying Zheng |