This lavish historical epic is set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s. General Pang barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu and Wu Yang. The three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death. However, their lives later derail as they become in a web of political deceit and a love...