Ambush on Ten Faces was set in Chongqing, with the mist-shrouded bamboo forest in the movie set in the Chongqing Chashan Bamboo Sea National Forest Park.

"Ambush on Ten Faces" is directed by Zhang Yimou and stars Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Zhang Ziyi, in which Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro play the roles of two arresting officers, while Zhang Ziyi plays the role of a courtesan with outstanding looks. Andy Lau's Liu is an undercover agent who met Zhang Ziyi's Little Sister a long time ago. In order not to expose his identity, he pretends not to know Little Sister, while Jin Chengwu's Jin falls in love with Little Sister in the process of getting along with her, and in the end, in order to protect Jin, Little Sister and Liu die together.

In the movie "Ambush on Ten Sides", Zhang Ziyi has a lot of dance scenes, in order to play this role, Zhang Ziyi in the opening two months ago began to prepare for the play, she asked a professional dance are, and every day to arrange enough time to learn dance. Because Zhang Ziyi began to learn dance at a very young age and has a good dance background, she quickly mastered the dance moves in this drama, laying the foundation for the successful shooting of the movie.

Leward's character, Liu Shoucheng, has a lot of fighting scenes, because these action scenes are a more realistic, plus close special effects shooting, so there is no room for sloppiness. In order to shoot this drama, Andy Lau spent a lot of time to practice the fight scene, and sometimes even use a real knife to fight, so that more sense of reality, but this is also a very dangerous thing, but in order to play this drama, Wah Chai is not to care about so much.

After the shooting, Andy Lau said in an interview: "Although I was hurt a little bit because of this movie, but it's nothing compared to the others in the crew. I hope that the next time I have a chance to work with director Zhang again, and then work with Takeshi Kaneshiro, we can shoot a literary movie. It seems that Andy Lau really enjoys the opportunity to work with director Zhang Yimou, and he likes this style of movie very much.