Hero
Ying Xiong

Action, Äventyr, Drama

Maggie Cheung	Flying Snow
Donnie Yen	Sky
Ziyi Zhang	Moon
Daoming Chen	King of Qin
Tony Leung Chiu Wai	Broken Sword
Liu Zhong Yuan	Scholar
Zheng Tia Yong	Old Servant
Yan Qin	Prime Minister
Chang Xiao Yang	General

Regissör	Yimou Zhang
Producent	Yimou Zhang; William Kong
Manusförfattare	Yimou Zhang; Feng Li
Fotograf	Christopher Doyle
Kompositör	Tan Dun

The movie describes the audience of the nameless protagonist (Jet Li) with the King of Qin (Chen Daoming), the largest of the warring kingdoms of China. The hero describes how he encountered three assassins after the king's life. The full story is revealed as a series of flashbacks, where the hero finds and defeats the assassins: the master of the spear, Long Sky (Donnie Yen), the beautiful Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and the calligrapher swordsman Broken Sword (Tony Leung). Through stylistic martial art sequences unfolds a story of romance and betrayal, as the king tries to find out the true motives of the unnamed hero, and tells a story of his own.