The Myth (traditional
Chinese: 神話; pinyin: ShénHuà) is a 2005 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure film
directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Kim Hee-sun
and Mallika Sherawat.
During the Qin Dynasty, general Meng Yi is tasked to escort the Korean princess
Ok-Soo from Korea to marry the Qin emperor in China. Along the journey, a Korean
warrior attempts to seize her back but Meng saves her. Ok-Soo falls in love with
Meng and displays her affections for him openly, but Meng keeps his honour by
rejecting her and successfully completing his mission. The Qin emperor becomes
critically ill later and he sends Meng to find the immortality elixir, the only
thing that can save his life. The guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by
rebels on the orders of the treacherous prince and chancellor. Meng hands over
the elixir to his deputy Nangong Yan and dies in the ensuing battle. Although
Nangong manages to hand the elixir to the emperor, the traitors accuse him and
Ok-Soo of treason and force them to consume the elixir, condemning them to
imprisonment in the Qin emperor's mausoleum for eternity.
