Warriors of the States

Amid a cast drawn from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China, Sun Hong-lei (“The Road Home”) portrays Sun Bin, a renowned military strategist and world-class eccentric: That this goofball character might actually be the savior of the Qi people seems absurd, until his prediction of a solar eclipse and an attack under darkness leads to a victory against Wei state, from wich Sun has just escaped. Along with his “sworn brother” Pang Juan (Francis Ng), Sun studied under the great Gui Guzhi. Now Pang plans to steal Gui’s strategies and have him killed, thus making the Wei province supreme.