The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake
竞雄女侠·秋瑾
When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she was in sword-fighting. When this rebellious girl moved to Beijing with her husband, she witnessed how her country was raided and ravaged by foreign powers. With the encouragement of her neighbor Wu Zhiying, the wife of righteous magistrate Li Zhongyue, Qiu Jin left her family behind to pursue study in Japan. There, she met some like-minded schoolmates who shared her ideals, including revolutionary leader Xu Xilin, and secretly joined his anti-Qing cause. After returning to China, Qiu Jin participated in the uprisings staged by Xu Xilin, leading a small group of hot-blooded students against the armed forces of the corrupt Qing government...
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Cast
Fang Yang-Fei
Awayne Liu
as Liu Daoyi
Tong Xiaomei
Shen Tian
Zhang Songwen
Zhu Xueliang
Rose Chan Ka-Wun
as Fusheng
Xiong Xinxin
as Ao Feng
Wong Yau-Nam
as Chen Boping
Liu Gang
Ding Xiaolong
Wang Hui
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
as Li Zhongyue
Dennis To Yu-Hang
as Xu Xilin
Lilie Matsumine
Crystal Huang Yi
as Qiu Jin
Chui Tien-You
as Chen Tianhua
Lau Siu-Ming
Andy Wong Chi-Man
Zhang Zhiwei
Bai Ru
Kevin Cheng Ka-Wing
as Wang Tingjun
Pat Ha Man-Jik
as Wu Zhiying
Lam Suet
as Gui Fu
Mia Yam
as Chen Fen
Owodog Chuang
