Legend of Great Ming (2018) 大明平妖传
Director: Guo Xiaochuan
Screenwriter: Guo Xiaochuan
Starring : Liu Qianwen / Lang Feng / Lou Xuexian / Wu Xingjian / Liu Yu
Genre: Fantasy / Costume
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2018-11-17 (Mainland China)
Duration: 84 minutes
Also known as: Ancient Costume Magic / Da Ming Ping Yao Zhuan
IMDb: tt10697822
Adaptation: Cameo
Summary:
“Legend of the Demons of the Ming Dynasty” chooses the popular fantasy theme on the Internet, and sets the background of the story in the late Ming Dynasty. It tells the story of the intrigues in the court at the end of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the troubled times of the special Yamen Jinwu Guards and the demon world led by the demon Huo Feiyuan. battle. While showing the bizarre world of demons, it explores the profound themes of good and evil in human nature.
In a turbulent time in the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Bodyguard solves humans’ cases, while the Jinwu Guard takes charge of ghosts’ and monsters’ business. Eunuch Wei seizes great power and suppresses dissidents. Colluding with the monster Huo Feiyuan, he framed Feng Tingzhang, the Director of the Grand Court. Zuo Changgeng, Feng’s disciple, accidentally gets involved in the Jinwu Guard’s monster hunting as he investigates the theft case of the treasury.
Though despising the Jinwu Guard , Zuo has no choice but to ask Jinwu Guard for help to save his master. Yi Shuihan is an upright half-human and half-monster member of Jinwu Guard . Zuo and Yi work together and investigate in the humans’ and monsters’ worlds before they gradually see through Eunuch Wei’s intrigue. But the Jinwu Guard is framed and then controlled by Eunuch Wei, and Yi and Zuo fall into Huo’s trap. It turns out that Huo is the mastermind behind everything to destroy the Qianyuan Formation that suppresses the monster world and releases monsters to the human world. Yi and Zuo cooperate and defeat Huo, but Eunuch Wei takes the merit of killing monsters and rescuing the Emperor, which causes him to become domineering in the court. Seeing the chaotic world, Zuo and Yi leave the court and wander around to pursue peace of their own.
