The Banquet is a palace tragedy film released in 2006. The film is based on Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet and directed by Xiaogang Feng. The main actors are Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming and other stars. The film was officially released on September 14, 2006, and finally won the box office of1300,000.
The film tells the story that the first emperor died and the prince traveled abroad during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Emperor and uncle usurped the throne and merged.
Self-proclaimed Li Di in charge of state affairs. As the stepmother of the prince, she was forced by the queen who grew up with the prince and committed herself to the emperor, hoping to protect the prince.
However, the prince who just learned the news of his father's death encountered a life-and-death battle in his geisha hall in Zhuhai. When Emperor Li killed the prince, he also began the slaughter of eliminating dissidents and establishing imperial power in the former court. In order to protect herself, Empress Wan became Li's accomplice in this political struggle, and at the same time, the achievements of power were growing in her heart. At the same time, Yin Taichang, the satrap, was forced to submit to the emperor Li but was disloyal.
Sun Yin, the son of Yin Taichang, is a five-tiger general of a dynasty, and his young woman has been betrothed as a prince. Under the general trend, Yin Taichang, who is sensible of the times, began to stop the communication between young women and the prince and tried his best to establish his position in the new dynasty. Unexpectedly, the girl was infatuated with the prince and dreamed that the prince would return to the DPRK.
When the prince appeared in front of the Empress Wan, the Empress Wan hugged her boyhood lover tightly, as if sharing life and death. But Wu Luan said, "Mom" pushed her away cruelly. She is no longer Wu Luan's martial arts partner in her teens or Wu Luan's stepmother. At this time, she will become the new queen, gain new imperial power, and help the usurper with her former identity and glory.
As a result, the dynasty that should have been extinct began a new chaos.