Andy Law as Detective Dee in the Tang Dynasty
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) Chinese Movie Information
Title in Chinese – 狄仁杰之通天帝国
Title in Pinyin – Di Ren Jie Zhi Tong Tian Di Guo
Genre – fantasy & adventure
Subject/theme – A 7th century Tang Dynasty detective is called upon to help the Empress
Language – Mandarin
Region – China
Release date
China – 29th September
Hong Kong 30th September
Movie runtime – 122 minutes
Director – Tsui Hark
Cast & Role Played
Andy Lau – Di Renjie, an exiled detective with psychic abilities
Carina Lau – Wu Zetian, Tang Dynasty Empress
Li Bingbing – Sangguan Jing,er, a skilled martial artist and right hand of the empress
Tony Leung Ka-fai – Shatuo Zhong
Deng Chao – Pei Donglai
Story
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is basically a whodunit movie with a lot of martial arts set in ancient China’s Tang Dynasty. The empress of China is due to be coroneted but her officials are mysteriously spontaneously combusting and leaving nothing but ash and a few bones as remains. In desperation after losing her seventh official to the murderous flames, the empress in desperation frees detective Dee from jail for help.
Using detective skills that rival Sherlock Holmes, psychic abilities and superb martial arts, Dee sets out on the trail of the killer.
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