Red Cliff

Plot Synopsis
The ambitious Prime Minister Cao Cao declare war against the Kingdom of Xu in the west, with the emperor as a puppet. Xu is ruled by the emperor's uncle, Liu Bei and Cao Cao's ultimate goal is to destroy all the smaller kingdoms and proclaimed himself emperor of a united China. Liu Bei sends his military advisor Zhuge Liang as the envoy of the Kingdom of Wu in the south, where he tries to persuade the ruler Sun Quan to merge the two kingdoms armies. Here he met Wu's Viceroy Zhou Yu, and the two become friends in the middle of an uncomfortable alliance.

Cao Cao is enraged to learn that the two kingdoms have become allies and sends an army of 800,000 soldiers and 2,000 naval vessels to the south, hoping to kill two birds with one stone. Cao Cao Forces camp at Crow Forest, on the other side of the Yangtze River for the Red cliff, where the allies are stationed. With dwindling food server and a tremendous odds in Cao Coase sees the Allied forces kingdoms to be lost. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang must rely on their collective wisdom to reverse the trend in the right direction. Countless battles where ingenuity and power clashed on land and on water, eventually became the most famous battle in the long Chinese history, where 2,000 ships were burnt and Chinese history was changed forever. It was the Battle of Red Cliff.

Saturn Award

 * Nominated
 * Best International Film
 * Best Music - Taro Iwashiro
 * Best Costume - Tim Yip

Trailer
400px|left