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More than 2000 years ago, during the Warring States era,

the mysterious Master Gui Guzi appeared.

According to rumors, he had a military manual

so potent that any vassal state that owns it would be able to dominate all under heaven.

Master Gui Guzi transmitted this military manual to only one man,

his last disciple, Sun Bin.

Sub Bin followed his Master, Gui Guzi,

and lived in seclusion in the mountain.

When the entire world was engulfed in chaos,

The King of Wei has a great thirst for talented people.

Please, Sir, follow me and come to with the state of Wei.

I, the King of Qin, respectfully invite Sir Sun to descend the mountain

So that I can honor him as the National Advisor.

I come from the state of Qi, as ordered by the king of Qi

To respectfully invite Sir Sun to go down the mountain…

THE WARRING STATES

Translators: Blue Magic (Chinese to Vietnamese) April (Vietnamese to English)

Director: Chen Jin

So beautiful! The battlefield...

The gleam in Ji Er's eye…

Kill!

….

Kill!

Kill!

….

….

Shoot the arrows!

Everybody! Take cover quickly! The arrows are coming!

The shooting is over.

Hurry, let's go collect the arrows.

Quickly!

Don't pick up the arrows!

They are still shooting.

More arrows are coming! Take cover quickly!

I saved your life.

But this flute saved my life!

Without it, I would be dead!

Uncle, you saved my life

I will give you food.

What kind of food?

We trade these arrows

for food at the Wei military camps.

My name is Little Doggie, what is your name, Uncle?

Sun Bin.

Come here, nephew.

The general has ordered that, given that we are at war,

we can't hand out food.

Let's wait.

We just want give you the arrows, we don't care about the food.

We are going to collect more arrows now.

and we will return shortly.

Why are you so unreasonable? - Sun Bin

This child almost lost his life.

Who is Sun Bin?

You are that General?

A student of Sir Gui Guzi.

They risked their lives collecting arrows to exchange for food.

Impossible.

I got the food. Here is your share.

You saved our lives, Sir…

My three thousand soldiers and officers…

General, there is a woman over there.

she is very beautiful.

Her eyes, especially, are so big.

So she was the one who beat you guy up like this?

She is as ferocious as a wolf.

Very interesting.

Sir, do you have any suggestions for us?

Not yet.

I haven't been able to come up with one yet. Sorry.

Which day is today?

I have a suggestion!

General, reporting!

The Wei troops are carrying the bodies of our dead soldiers up the mountain.

I don't know what they plan to do.

What would be their intention?

What is up there in the sky?

There will be a solar eclipse tomorrow at noon,

General, let's take advantage of this occasion. Order our troop to slide down the mountain

and infiltrate the Qi troop's camp.

The Qi soldiers will become disorganized and they won't be able to react on time.

Then we can break the encirclement and remove the threat.

Something is wrong!

Reporting!

General,

The Wei army took advantage of the darkness and slipped down the mountain.

They are coming after our rear guards!

Send the archers to the back!

Yes.

Listen to the order!

The enemies are here!

Kill them all!

Kill all the Qi soldiers!

Wei soldiers have tied red string on their arms.

Remove the string.

Master of the House…

Master…of the...House!

Hurry, run!

Sun Bin, don't run. Stop.

Stop, Sun Bin!

Don't run.

Don't chase me, or I will jump down!

Shoot!

Senior General Pang is strong and awe-inspiring.

This humble commander took advantage of the night to slide down the mountain

to enter the Qi army camp.

They couldn’t react in time

and ran toward the border.

Who taught you this stratagem?

Not sure...

Please forgive me, Senior General!

So in the end, who defeated our troop?

I am asking you!

I am asking you for the last time!

He is Sun Bin, my junior brother.

Sun Bin.

No matter what, you must bring him here.

Bring him here in front of the Wei King.

By all means.

Only him can save the life of Senior General Tian.

Lady, you have been wounded.

Sun Bin

You are calling me, lady?

Aren't you…

Reporting!

Tian Xi has returned

He is outside of the fort.

On the carriage there is another man. He is…

Speak quickly!

Sun Bin, a man from the state of Qi.

Sun Bin.

Open the Citadel's gate, use national rites to welcome him.

I lost the fort, how would I dare to go meet the King?

Behead him! Old General Jian, I dare not.

The time hasn't come yet…

Heaven ordered you to come here to help me.

It is a great honor for the state of Qi.

The army of the Great Qi welcome you.

please get off the carriage so that we can greet you!

Who dared beat you up so bad?

I ran into a weird animal on the way to here.

The beast likes Bin and wants to eat Bin.

Evidently Bin couldn't accept that and fought against it.

The weird animal ran away.

Bin got just a few minor scratches.

Please.

Senior, what is the name of that female warrior?

Please release Old General Jian immediately.

His Majesty is very bright.

he rallies the people and treats the wise and learned well.

He enhances the reputation of the State of Qi.

It is very fortunate,

very fortunate.

Students of Gui Guzi include Pang Juan and Sun Bin.

But only one is the true student who learned the best from him.

Yes.

Between your brother and Sun Bin, who is better?

My brother fought against Sun Bin

on the mountain.

At that time, both were students

of Gui Guzi.

Gui Guzi wanted his two students to play hide and seek.

Sun Bin hid in the forest.

My brother couldn't find him.

So he pretended to be wounded,

and Sun Bin immediately showed himself.

At that time the bond between them was very strong.

It was said that before Pang Juan descended the mountain,

he promise to marry his sister to Sun Bin.

Am I not always next to you?

I was only joking, please don't mind me.

It was painful for this old general.

Father, your daughter is late.

The Tian Clan values daughters more than sons.

You saved my life.

I lost the fort.

I don't dare look at his Majesty's face.

How could the fort be lost so easily?

It was shameful for our family.

Where is the man named Sun Bin?

At the court.

Please thank him for your father.

Old General Tian,

In the Tian Clan, a daughter is more precious than a son.

Senior General Tian Jian lost the fort.

should he be punished or not?

What is your opinion, Sir?

His crime is as great as yours, Majesty.

How dare Sun Bin say that?

Sir, please speak your mind.

You don't know how to use people…

Your Majesty, Sun Bin deserves to be beheaded!

Sun Bin's crime is punishable by death!

Why?

Today, I elevate Sun Bin to the post of Private Counselor

His salary and benefits will be above that of a Great Lord

Thank you, Your Majesty, but I Sun Bin don't dare to accept.

Before I come down the mountain, my Sifu reminded me that i shouldn't become a mandarin,

or a general.

It is something I should not do.

Your senior brother Pang Juan, isn't he not also a general?

right.

Idiot!

Clearly he wants to die!

Not so.

not so…

He doesn't want to be a mandarin, or a general.

Why not let him become a guest of the House of Tian?

who is this Tian?

Thank you, your Majesty!

Why are you following me closely?

I am your house guest.

Old General Tian told me to thank you for saving his life.

No need - He committed a grave fault.

Thank you so much, Sir, for letting me know.

General Tian is my father.

Even if Sun Bin likes the Master of the House,

Nevertheless, the general did commit a very grave crime.

What did you say?

the crime is…

You just said something about liking…

The Master of the House might not look like a lady,

But Bin really like..

Take it easy, don't be too forceful!

Go tell the Master of the House that I am very clean!

I don't need to take a bath!

Why do it?

it is so unbecoming!

I already told you I don't need to take a bath!

Our Master said you are very dirty, Sir.

You must be bathed and cleansed before you can be a guest of the House of Tian

Save me!

Can you hear anything now?

I am sure you can hear something.

Why did you dive down so deep?

Sun Bin..

The Master of the House is bathing with you.

Master of the House, here are your shoes.

The Master of the House didn't put the shoes on.

Here are the shoes, Master of the House.

Too cruel!

Where is everybody?

Do you have anything to tell us?

What are you laughing at?

A little empathy make you laugh too?

The Master of your house beats me with a stick,

he assaulted a man with no weapon whatsoever.

he also attacked suddenly.

And that make you laugh?

I won't argue with you anymore!

Please send the following message to the Master of the House.

we must use reason to win people over.

This is not a battlefield.

I am not her enemy, I am her houseguest!

She must attract and treat the wise well and give feasts to the learned to earn my heartfelt respect.

And there is one more thing,

She didn’t slap my face, she only hit my body.

That is something that is praiseworthy!

Are you happy with that?

Just go…

I heard that this "Cui Guzi Military Manual"

was transmitted only to Sun Bin,

and never to Pang Juan?

Pang Juan isn't well versed in any military strategy.

His Majesty is going back!

There is no such thing as a "Gui Guzi Military Manual"

Just rumors.

How do you know that no military manual exists?

I studied with Sifu in more than ten disciplines.

For many years I led troops on the battlefield

based on

their courage,

based on

my ability to use military strategies and tactics.

and so I don't believe

that there is a military strategy that will win each and every time.

I am going to attend a Gathering of Kings at the Luo River.

The King of Wei is saying that he is sick

and ordered general Pang Juan to go.

Lady, please help me seduce Sun Bin.

The people of the state of Qi

all hope that she will achieve great deeds.

Kings! Let's start the ceremony!

Kings! Please sit down for

The annual gathering at the Luo River.

Kings from the four directions came at the appointed time.

I am very happy.

Only King Hui of the State of Wei...

Respectfully reporting to the Son of Heaven,

My King is gravely ill and thus couldn't come.

The states that belong to my Great Zhou state,

were chaotic for many years and the number of people wounded and killed was innumerable.

The struggle between Qi and Wei resulted in rivers of blood.

What happened to all people under the heaven fill my heart with pain.

This gathering is to take over the forts at the borders of the state of Qi.

What happened to your nose?

Di Lu kicked me!

You are invited to come to the State of Qi…

…then you must lead the horse for a walk!

Please wait for me.

It is so dark and scary here!

Master of the House, please go slowly.

I don't see anything.

Master of the House,

the troops are well disciplined

and well trained.

Do you know who he is?

His name is Sun Bin.

He is the one who taught the Wei troop to take advantage of the heavenly dog eating the sun (the solar eclipse).

Why is he hiding?

Just let them admire you.

Honored!

Honored!

King of Han

I didn't settle last year's battle with you.

So why don't we settle that score now

To get it over with.

States big and small all are children of my Great Zhou

All are…

Stop arguing.

Let's follow the old tradition, and have a chariot race to determine winners and losers.

Young general, please have some wine before you leave.

All I want to do is to escort your Majesty.

You want to leave, Sir?

The King is in another country,

so it is natural to be impatient.

Then you go ahead without me,

right now,

His Majesty doesn't agree.

So how can I leave before him?

Hypocrite!

it is noon! Let's get going.

Let him do it.

High mandarins, please return.

Master of the House,

Di Lu is winning you over?

How do you know?

I understand the language of horses.

The biggest braggart in the whole world is you!

I will ask Di Lu to speak,

it will speak along with me. Do you believe me?

No.

What if I am right?

say whatever you want.

If it really can speak

The Master of the House will let Bin kiss your eyes, agreed?

Fine.

I am right!

Let Bin kiss you your eyes once!

Do what you said!

Let Bin give you a kiss, please!

Before, the reason why I ordered you to go to the state of Wei.

was to help find a chance for the state of Qi.

Now that Wei troop took over a fort,

I am so afraid I am sweating.

Your Majesty, please don't worry.

I, Pang Juan, am here.

The Wei army can't beat the Qi army.

The Master of the House must keep his word.

If you said nothing, it would be fine. But if you promised, you must keep your promise.

Let me kiss the Master of the House once.

Not saying anything means you agreed.

The Master of the House use a sword, rather than an arm, this time.

This means she won't dare attack Qi.

Or could it be that the Master of the House also like Sun Bin?

Where is everybody?

Nothing!

Nothing!

I told you nothing!

Nothing!

Master of the House,

Master of the House…

He came down with a cold. Just drink a lot of ginger water.

Juan

Greetings, Senior Brother!

Master of the House, here is my Senior Brother Pang Juan.

Here is the Master of the House, Tian Xi.

My senior brother used to be able to drink a lot of wine!

he still can do it now.

Senior Brother, please help me.

How can I help?

In a moment please let me and the Master of the House leave by ourselves.

Fine, I understand.

let's play hide and seek with you.

see who will find me first.

And then later...

Later I let her capture me.

I was gone by then.

Right right.

Master of the House,

I go hide now.

These two won't be able to find me.

Di Lu, it has been quite a while since we last met!

Five years!

Yes, five years.

Each night I look in the direction of the State of Qi,

and hope that you would fly down.

You speak less and less.

I live in the State of Wei

As a Wei woman,

I need to be be my guard and let no one hear us.

WARRING STATES (2011)

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When I was little and living up the mountain,

Often I sat by myself alone.

You hide too well, we couldn't find you.

Master of the House, do you want to know how I feel

when I saw her for the first time?

the feeling I had then…

I don't want to…

The horse race between Qi and Wei is just something that was arranged.

If Di Lu is here, Qi will certainly win.

This time, let them win the race.

The Wei border forts can't be taken back.

So why even think of winning or losing?

Pang Juan had a change of heart.

we can't win this horse race.

Wei wins!

Master of the House, Di Lu was poisoned and had died.

The day before he had a crisis

Master of the House, Sun Bin saw Di Lu die.

He ride the chariot himself, no one can't stop him.

The second heat

you can't go.

Di Lu has died.

Our horse can't win.

Not necessarily.

Match our weak horses against their strong horses.

Math our strong horses against their medium horses.

Match our average horses against their weak horses.

I don’t quite understand what you said.

even if we tried our best, the best we can do is to come out even.

You still have me here.

I understand horses.

Qi wins!

The problem is not winning or losing.

You can't go.

The Qi race horse has entered the battle.

The Wei people are waiting for us.

So you are the ones who harmed Di Lu?

Third heat!

Even if you kill the horse, you still lose.

Qi wins!

No, General…

Sun Bin!

Sub Bin!

You know how to make the heavenly dog eat the sun (a solar eclipse)

About this story…

I can't even take care of myself.

I want the Master of the House to know a secret

related to the heavenly dog eating the sun event.

Because Sun Bin studied astronomy under his Sifu,

he was able to guess right, that's all there is to it.

Senior Brother,

what now Bin?

I am fine.

No problems.

Are you hurt?

Anything get to me, what? which hurt?

I fell of the chariot and you didn’t even pay attention!

No, I did…

Please come with me to the state of Wei

Where are you taking him?

Where to?

Stop!

Don't worry, Head of the House, they…

Put the sword down. What are you doing?

His Majesty has come.

Because he lost the last race,

The King of Wei wants to capture Sun Bin and take him away.

What happens if he can't do that?

The great army will come, and the state of Qi won't be secure.

How about the fort and fortifications?

Minor details!

Let me bring Sun Bin, and I will return the fort.

Fine.

Bin, go.

I am waiting for the Head of the House,

Go!

Let's go!

We must wait for the head of the House to see us out.

Head of the House,

Head of the House…

Go

Senior Brother,

just let go!

Each night I look at the State of Qi.

Pang Juan has changed his mind.

Yes, it has been five years already…

that this flute saved my life.

I would like to give you..

Head of the House, do you know what is the best thing in this world

that Bin saw?

What?

They eyes of the Head of the House

So you are indeed the Sun Bin that people talked about.

Your Sifu

has given the military manual to him.

Bin is smarter than me.

What is this place?

This is where I study military strategies.

I feel safe whenever I am here.

Not bad, no one is here.

Just the two of us.

Clean

Bin,

come here,

Please write down the military manual that Sifu transmitted to you.

What for?

I want to read it.

Let's drink up!

Sir Sun, may I ask you a question?

After we captured this border fort,

why don't we press on and take the Qi capital?

You can't take the Qi capital.

Why can't we take the Qi capital?

When Senior General Pang led you to take that fort,

it was an abandoned fort.

An abandoned fort? Why was it an abandoned fort?

Any place that is well guarded,

is a place where conflicts happen regularly.

Such places are not worth the trouble.

You don't get what I said?

Sir, if we let you lead this battle,

is it what you are going to do?

I won't lead this battle and attack.

why won't you?

If the country has no wars to fight,

soldiers will become farmers,

so why should they fight?

Don't you guys want to go back home and farm?

Yes we do.

Before you all go back to the State of Wei,

I heard the news that

The King of Wei wants Sun Bin to write down the military manual

and then eliminate him.

I am here, who dares to touch him?

Brother, you don't know it yet.

Knowing too much might get you killed.

But wouldn’t what you are doing will lead you to your death also?

Brother, so the reason you came to Wei

rwas really to seek to stay alive?

Don't think that I don't know.

Years ago when the King of Qi gave me to the King of Wei,

The chess game was set.

The use of military force requires preparation.

even a small fort could be defended

through careful preparations.

the number of soldiers might be small, but strength

come from the righteous cause.

Wars don't need a righteous cause.

So it means that no one is invincible in this world.

States that keep its word grow and prosper.

Doom comes to whoever uses military force with belligerence.

Sun Bin

Sun Bin, please get up, quickly.

Hurry up and write, the King of Wei wants to see.

I already wrote.

Am I not your brother?

Yes you are.

Then write it all down quickly.

And if you write a fake military manual, remember that cheating his Majesty is punishable by death.

Even I can't make that charge of away.

Senior Brother, the truth is I wrote it all out for you.

I will go tell the King of Wei.

Sir Sun,

Your Majesty,

I was hunting

when suddenly I saw two bird fighting over food.

I use my bow to shoot them.

The two birds Sun and Pang started to cry.

Sir, please hurry and go…

Go with us, quickly.

where to?

Don't ask!

where do you want me to go?

Sir, let's go.

Go

Finish your story and then go.

Return to the State of Qi quickly.

Why?

Hurry, escort him away.

Don't you know? There are people who want to harm you.

If you don't run now, it may be too late.

Someone wants to harm me? No one is trying to harm me.

You are stupid! Really stupid!

Take him away quickly!

Madame Jun please tell them

that I can't go.

Please say just one word!

Senior Brother, Senior Brother, please climb in!

Senior Brother

Senior General,

Wan Er, what do you want?

To see him off…

…going back to the State of Qi.

May I ask you, Madame Jun,

Does Sun Bin have any problem in the state of Wei?

You and Madame Jun, what are you doing running outside?

To look for me to play with me

Bin

You are making things up

Sun Bin colluded with the State of Qi.

Should be he killed or not?

Since when, senior General

did you become as weak as a woman?

Your Majesty,

If you kill Sun Bin, people will say

that the State of Wei is jealous of talented men

and no one will come to serve.

What do you think?

All we need to do is to guard him strictly.

Don't let him run away.

Wait for him to change his mind and turn over the military manual.

I can't believe you are so thorough.

Then let's take him to a place where he can't escape from,

accuse him of treason and then use torture to break his legs.

Not a bad idea.

Tomorrow,

I will have people take you back to the State of Qi.

Is that true?

I really want to go back to Qi, it is so boring here.

There is no one I would like to meet here.

I miss Tian Xi a lot.

I also don't want to be away from you.

I will come to see you, senior brother.

What does the King of Wei think? Does he trust me?

Don't think about them.

I already told them,

That Sifu didn't transmit any military manual to me.

whatever Sifu transmitted to me, I already wrote it all down for you.

I wrote down whatever I wrote

Right, that's true.

Senior Brother,

The King of Wei doesn't trust me, and now you don't trust me too?

Why?

Why?

Senior Brother, are you mad at me?

Sun Bin,

Sun Bin was tempted by beauty and skill

He colluded with the State of Qi to spy on Wei

he become a secret spy for them.

His Majesty ordered his arrest,

and condemned him to have his patella bone broken.

Bin,

Do you know that

stupid kings like those

are shameless low life,

that must be exterminated

to help get rid of wars

and allow all under heaven to rest and recover?

Can you do it?

You can do it, I will help you.

Not possible.

So will you support me?

Read the military manual

Senior Brother, Senior Brother, please don't go!

I am very afraid, Senior Brother, please…

Juan, please don't go.

Don't be afraid, it will be over very soon.

Go to the State of Qi to let Jian Xi know.

Yes.

Senior General, I took a piece of bone…

Did you get the military manual?

His mouth was already gagged.

why are you laughing?

What are you laughing about?

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