Director
Jana Shah
DIRECTOR
Li Zhang
Stars (in credits order)
Chun Sun
Yuan Shi-kai
Zhong Lü
Empress Dowager Cixi
Yong-gui Li
Li Lianying
Shaohua Ma
Sun Yat-sen
Min Xu
Aisin Gioro Yi Kuang (Prince Qing)
Guangjie Li
Emperor Guangxu
Hongrui Zhang
Liang Qi-chao
Xiaoning Ma
Xiao De Zhang
Bing Wang
Li Hung-Chang
Yi Li
Zhao Bingjun
Yu Zheng
Xu Shi-chang
Lun Ma
Duan Qirui
Tianyong Zheng
Qu Hong-Ji
Li Chuanying
Huang Xing
Zaifen Han
Shen Yuying
Ning Sun
Kang Youwei
Haibo Wen
Sheng Xuan-huai (Xingsun)
Ju Zhang
Weng Tong-he
Tianhao Gao
Zai Feng
Liuyuan Ding
Tian Mo
Bingyan Liao
Zhang Zhi-dong
Lixin Zhao
Luo Wen
Zhijun Ge
Rong Lu
Kang Chen
Yang Du
Lisheng Qiao
Sung Chiao-jen
Runhao Yao
Zai Zhen
Gang Yao
Feng Guozhang
Hongjie Guo
Cao Kun
Longyin Hu
Cen Chunxuan
Wang Hui
Yang Shiqi
Weifu Ma
Li Guangzhao
Yingqun Han
Ma Sanjun
Xiaojie Zhang
Hong'er
Guangyuan Yang
Zhang Xun
Yasuyuki Hirata
Ito Hirobumi
Xiaojie Tian
Ku Hung-Ming (Tangsheng)
Bojie Hao
Zai Ze
Shunzeng Zhao
Gang Yi
Wei Cai
Li Yuanhong
Hongtao Wang
Xu Tong
Qiang Miao
Yuan Keding
Danjun Dong
Wu Yu-Ding
Weiming Liu
Zhang Jian
Nan Jiang
Empress Longyu
Kôji Yano
Meiji Emperor
Jiali Shi
Soong Ching-ling
Xuege Qian
Aisin Gioro Yi Xuan (Qi Ye)
Guoguang Liu
Duan Fang
Yingqi Wang
Wang Shizhen
Asiru
Imperial Consort Zhen
Lei Yu
Xu Chengyu
Jonathan Kos-Read
Journalists Morrison
Yi-ming Jiang
Yuan Kewen
Zongyin Zhou
Wen Tingshi (Weng's student)
Nakamura Bunpei
Itoh Sukeyuki
Mengxing Zhang
En Ming
Liang Sun
Tsai Ting Kan
Mingyang Chai
Lin Xu
Peiwen Wang
Emperor Puyi (child)
Iguchi Takanao
Corporal Chao Yan
Mao Su
Deng Shi-chang
Akira Hoshino
Saigou Jyuudou
Meng Yang
Cai E
Shuyang Sui
Tan Si-tong
Guoqiang Mi
Sun Mei (Sun's Brother)
Mingsheng Ren
Zhao Fengchang
Yaming Ren
Narration
Minghan Guo
Meng En'yuan
Zong-yi Hong
Fang Bo-qian
Jinlong He
Tang Qingchang
Mingzhi Wang
Ding Ru-Chang
YuanRong Zhang
Liu Bu-Chan
Jiazhong Xu
Yu Xian
Erfu Wu
Wu Tingfang
Rui-hong Wang
Aisin Gioro Yi Xuan's wife
Miura Kenichi
Nomura General
Kuwana Akira
Mutsu Munemitsu
Bo Zhou
Zhang Zhenwu
Zhaoji Jia
Zhao Qi-lin
Yuqing Gao
Zhu Baokui
Lianyi Li
HSBC secretary
Ping Wang
Lu Zhengxiang
J. René Godin
Alfred Von Waldersee
Kamiya Shuzumi
Shouson Hisataro (Minister in China)
Chengzhang Xu
Kang Guangren
Yiping Jia
Tie Liang
Shaoli Sun
Sun's sister-in-law
Qiang Zheng
Cheng Weinan
Jiaqi Jiang
Zhou Di (Female school teacher)
Liyun Wang
Tian Mo's mother
Yuan Shilong
Yang Rui
Feng Ying
Cao Rulin
Anatoly Shanin
Commander Besford
Ichikawa Kisako
Tomoko
Baozhong Xu
Governor of a province
Liang Xu
Wang Zhuosheng
Yunpeng Zhai
Xu Xi-lin
Zijun Ma
Governor of a county
Yuntong Jia
Tan Zhonglin
Tao Song
Yin Chang
Yongle Ouyang
Jie Duo Di
Junyong Yang
Ying Gui-xin
Qing Ye
Wu Yu-Ding's wife
Yinquan Shang
Yan Jing-ming
Zengyuan Yang
Lin Wensheng
Yu Wang
Tang Shaoyi
Ke Li
Chen Boping
You-wang Chen
Troupe actor (fake Kang Youwei)
Hexiang Tang
Yang Cuixi
Deshan Wei
Lin Taizeng
Mark An
Heinrich
Dalong Chen
Tian Mo's father
Yi Liu
Jiang Shixing
Jing Zeng
Sun Jia-nai
Chen Xiang
En-Hai
Wenxue Guo
Duan Zhigui
Chuanhai Wang
Charlie Soong Chiao-shun
Jingyu Wang
Zheng Shiliang
Ben Niu
Old tailor
Bo Liu
Wu Chuan
Qi Chen
Donation Old Lady
Ke Ma
Sun Ke (teenager)
Hongmei Chen
Hotel hostesses
Yutong Liu
Wang Zhao
Zhenfeng Li
Xiong Xiling
Heyuan Chi Ming
Mei Wu (Japanese friend)
Jun Song
Shao Ying
Fang Gao
Zhao Qi-lin's mother
Martin Mannis
Clind
Hua Jin
Aisin Gioro Liangbi
Xiaolong Gu
Adjutant
Hong Gao
Wan Shengshi
Lufei Sun
Ying's wife
Kunqi Cao
Cheng Dequan
Itoh
Yonglin Ma
Old Xiao
Lu Chen
Soong Ching-ling (girlhood)
Zuxun Luan
Huang Ruilan
Yiran Tuo
Yang Quyun
Chao Liu
Cheng Biguang
Abo
Lu Zongyu
Wenfeng Liu
Gang Yi's wife
Baoguo Xu
Liu Guang-di
Chunyu Zheng
Lu Haodong
Caigen Xu
Ying's housekeeper
Markus Källander
Italian general
Zhongfu Ma
Chief editor
Shiji Li
Zhou Rongyao
Qingyong Cai
Huang Yi'ou