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Plot summary
An orphaned girl named Qingcheng steals a mantou from a boy and runs off, then meets the goddess Manshen, who offers her a life of wealth and unmatched beauty. The bargain is that she will never keep a man's love, and only impossible events, snow falling in spring among them, could undo it. She grows up as the King's concubine. General Guangming, who has just defeated a barbarian army with three thousand soldiers, races home to the Imperial City, where Duke Wuhuan has besieged the palace. Manshen tells Guangming that a man in his crimson armor will kill the King. Wounded by Wuhuan's henchman Snow Wolf, Guangming is saved by his slave Kunlun and sends him into the palace wearing that armor, to save the King.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Promise (2005)
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- The Weinstein Company removed about 25 minutes from The Promise for a planned North American release as Master of the Crimson Armor, then cancelled the release and sold the rights to Warner Independent Pictures, which kept the cuts but restored the title and opened it on 5 May 2006.
- While shooting in Yunnan, The Promise's production crew was accused of damaging the vegetation and natural scenery of the area and the surrounding Bigu Lake and of leaving behind a large amount of undisposed household waste.
- Hu Ge's 2005 short film A Murder Case Caused by a Dumpling spoofed The Promise; after it appeared online, director Chen Kaige threatened legal action for copyright infringement, but the case fizzled out amid widespread public support for Hu in China.
