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The Warlords

This article is about the 2007 film. For the similarly-titled episode of Doctor Who, see The Crusade. For other uses, see Warlord (disambiguation).

The Warlords
Theatrical release poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese投名狀
Simplified Chinese投名状
Literal meaningdiscard account
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyintóu míngzhuàng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingTau4 Ming4 Zong6
Directed byPeter Chan
Written byXu Lan
Chun Tin-nam
Aubery Lam
Huang Jianxin
Jojo Hui
He Jiping
Guo Junli
James Yuen
Produced byPeter Chan
Andre Morgan
StarringJet Li
Andy Lau
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Xu Jinglei
CinematographyArthur Wong
Edited byWenders Li
Music byChan Kwong-wing
Peter Kam
Chatchai Pongprapaphan
Leon Ko
Production
companies
Distributed byMedia Asia Distribution
Release dates
  • 12 December 2007 (2007-12-12) (China)
  • 13 December 2007 (2007-12-13) (Hong Kong)
Running time
127 minutes
CountriesHong Kong
China
LanguageMandarin
Budget$40 million[1]
Box office$42.9 million[2][3]

The Warlords (投名狀), previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 Chinese–Hong Kong epic historical action film directed and co-produced by Peter Chan, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. The film, set in China in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion, revolves around the sworn brotherhood of three men. The film was released on 13 December 2007 simultaneously in most of Asia, except Japan.[4] It won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and a Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film. For the film, Li became the highest paid actor in a Chinese-language movie, previously holding the record for his part in Hero (2002).[5]

  1. ^ "The Warlords (2010) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Warlords (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Tau ming chong (The Warlords) (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  4. ^ Coonan, C. "Chan's 'Warlords' wraps" , Variety, 2007-03-30. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
  5. ^ "Jet Li breaks Chinese film salary record". Digital Spy. 26 November 2007.

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