Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

“The Fate of an Empire Is in His Hands.”

Two courtiers burn to death from the inside, and Wu Zetian (Carina Lau), soon to be empress, pulls Detective Dee (Andy Lau) out of prison to find out why. Tsui Hark sends him through a court full of rivals and informants, with Shangguan Jing'er (Li Bingbing) and Pei Donglai (Deng Chao) close at his side. Dee is a rebel who spent years behind bars for defying the woman who now needs him, and he takes the case anyway.