Brotherhood of Blades

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial secret police answer to a court where a eunuch minister can rise and fall in a season. Lu Yang's film follows three sworn brothers sent to hunt down the exiled Wei Zhongxian, among them Shen Lian (Chang Chen), who is trusted with the work. The hunt ends quickly, and Shen is left carrying out orders that no longer seem to belong to anyone he knows.