Eight Heroes is a 2006 television series directed by Wong Jing

Wong Jing

Wong Jing is a Hong Kong film director, producer, actor, presenter, and screenwriter. A prolific filmmaker possessed of strong instincts for crowd-pleasing and publicity, he is often cited as the most consistently successful filmmaker , in commercial terms, in the Hong Kong cinema of the last...

, and starring Anthony Wong, Damian Lau

Damian Lau

Damian Lau Chung-yan is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.-Early career:...

, Lu Yi

Lu Yi (actor)

Lu Yi is a Chinese film and television actor.He graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1999.Lu has appeared in more than one dozen films including the part of Han Shibang, one of the seven heroes, in the wuxia film Seven Swords directed by Tsui Hark.-TV series:*Field of Dreams...

, Li Bingbing

Li Bingbing

Li Bingbing is a Chinese actress and singer.-Life and career:Li had no intention of becoming an actress initially and enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers...

, Li Xiaolu, Dong Xuan, Zheng Xiaodong, Lam Chi-chung, Edison Chen

Edison Chen

Edison Koon-Hei Chen is a Hong Kong film actor, Cantopop singer, Hong Kong hip hop rapper, model, record producer, fashion designer, and a pop icon. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc., and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited...

, Fan Bingbing, and Han Xiao. It was produced in 2005 and released in the following year.

Plot

The story is set in ancient China during the Southern Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...

. Emperor Gaozong

Emperor Gaozong of Song

Emperor Gaozong , born Zhao Gou, was the tenth emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, and the first emperor of the Southern Song. He reigned from 1127 to 1162. He fled south after the Jurchens overran Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident, hence the beginning of the Southern Song dynasty 1127–1279...

 is deceived by the treacherous premier Qin Hui

Qin Hui (Song Dynasty)

Qin Hui or Qin Kuai was a Chancellor of the Song Dynasty in China, who is widely regarded as a traitor of the Han race for his part in the political execution of General Yue Fei...

 and he puts the patriotic general Yue Fei

Yue Fei

Yue Fei , style name Pengju, was a military general of the Southern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home was in Xiaoti, Yonghe Village, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, Henan...

 to death. Qin Hui's supporters dominate the imperial court, leading to widespread corruption in the government. Some righteous ministers oppose Qin Hui, but do not dare to challenge him directly, so they form the secret organization Haoxia to undermine his influence. Eight people with special skills and abilities receive invitations to join Haoxia and their heroic quest begins. The plot's development is based on several loosely-connected subplots and short stories, and ends with a grand finale of a showdown between the heroes and Qin Hui's forces.

Cast

• Anthony Wong as Yan Tiexin
• Damian Lau
  Damian Lau
  Damian Lau Chung-yan is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.-Early career:...
  
   as Guan Yulou
• Lu Yi
  Lu Yi (actor)
  Lu Yi is a Chinese film and television actor.He graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1999.Lu has appeared in more than one dozen films including the part of Han Shibang, one of the seven heroes, in the wuxia film Seven Swords directed by Tsui Hark.-TV series:*Field of Dreams...
  
   as Ping Chang
• Li Bingbing
  Li Bingbing
  Li Bingbing is a Chinese actress and singer.-Life and career:Li had no intention of becoming an actress initially and enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers...
  
   as Feng Laiyi
• Li Xiaolu as Le Qianqian
• Dong Xuan as Bian Suwen
• Zheng Xiaodong as Feng Yizhen
• Lam Chi-chung as Dongguo Ren
• Edison Chen
  Edison Chen
  Edison Koon-Hei Chen is a Hong Kong film actor, Cantopop singer, Hong Kong hip hop rapper, model, record producer, fashion designer, and a pop icon. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc., and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited...
  
   as Xie Jiaqi
• Fan Bingbing as Chu Xiangxiang
• Han Xiao as Di Sanniang
• Li Guohua as Qin Hui
  Qin Hui (Song Dynasty)
  Qin Hui or Qin Kuai was a Chancellor of the Song Dynasty in China, who is widely regarded as a traitor of the Han race for his part in the political execution of General Yue Fei...
  
  
• Chen Zhihui as Meng Tianwen
• Wu Qingzhe as Crown prince
• Tian Min as Empress
• Shen Lan as Lianhua
• Xie Yuanjiang as Fang Dongyue
• Cao Zheng as Yang Chen
• Zhou Zhong as Blood Bat
• Zhou Ying as Xi Ning
• Zhang Liang as Gu Beichuan
• Liu Yiwei as Lai San
• Wei Hua as Zhuge Chaoming
• Ni Zengzhao as Wen Yaonan
• Chen Ke as Jia Dapeng
• Sun Mengmeng as Jingrong
• Ma Ji as Liu Qing
• Huang Wei as Tianji Old Man
• Guo Hongjie as Eagle King
• Chen Tao as Qin Xi
• Qian Youyou as Feng Yizhen's mother

External links

Eight Heroes on Baidu Baike

Baidu Baike

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 Eight Heroes on Sina.com

Sina.com

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