Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 23, 2013
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Neoclassics Films
Money talks and family trust walks in Empire of Silver.
The 2009 Chinese historical epic drama Empire of Silver is a kind of Chinese Wall Street saga that takes place in the 19th Century.
The film is set in 1899 China among the ‘piaohao’ Shanxi merchants (known as the Wall Street of China) who controlled the whole nation’s finances and whose influence was felt around the world. A hedonistic young man, Third Master (Aaron Kwok), assumes the role of heir to a banking empire he cares little about and reluctantly submits to pressure from his overbearing father, Lord Kang (Tielin Zhang). Kang is determined to prepare his son for leadership and in “the art of controlling men,” by molding him in his own image and trying to force him to choose an unscrupulous bank manager to run the family empire over the idealistic son’s preferred (and more honest) candidate.
Oh, and the movie also co-stars, wildly enough, Jennifer Tilly (30 Beats)!
Directed by Christina Yao and executive produced by Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor), the unrated 2009 movie won the Jury Award and Best Director Award at Shanghai International Film Festival.
Following its film festival roll-out and screenings in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Empire of Silver had a limited run in theaters in the U.S. in June, 2011.
The DVD and Blu-ray of the film are presented in Mandarin with English and Mandarin subtitles.
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