Movie · 2011
The Great Magician
Released 22 December 2011 128 min Drama / Mystery More from 2011 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
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How old were they?
Paul Chun Pui
as Liu Wan-yao
Tsui Hark
as Warlord
Berg Ng Ting-Yip
as Chang Hsien's Assistant
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
as Chang Hsien
Wu Gang
as Butler Liu
Alex Fong Chung-Sun
as Chen Kuo
Lau Ching-Wan
as Lei Bully
Lam Suet
as Li Feng-jen
Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu
as Warlord
Kenya Sawada
as Mitearai
Morris Rong Xiang
as Warlord
Yan Ni
as Lei's Wife
Zhou Xun
as Liu Yin
Daniel Wu
as Captain Tsai
Wang Ziyi
as Li Yi
Wang Ziwen
as Li Chiao
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The numbers
38years between the oldest and youngest billed
66Paul Chun Pui — oldest on the call sheet
28Wang Ziwen — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast