Sun Chenxi

Yelingyu a master of swordsmanship of the highest level abruptly retires to spend more time with his sickly son and pursue a normal way of life. However a dark conspiracy changes everything and it falls on the son, Ye Nin Ci, to unfold it.

It tells the legendary story of Li Tian, craftsman from Liuyang, who invented firecrackers more than 1,300 years ago

The story is based on the popular novel developed from folk legend. It goes that the Manchurian emperor Qianlong of China (circa 18th Century) was actually the son of a Han Chinese, the subject ethnicity. His brother of blood, Chen Jialuo just happened to be the chief of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Manchu secret society. Chen, a learned scholar, thought he could get his brother turn his back on the Manchu and restore the Han Chinese reign. But the story was ended by brutal clearence of the society members. It reflects one of the dark pages in Chinese culture, that ethics and humanity always become impotent when countered with power.

1993 film