Name: Tai Chi Zero
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Released: 2012-09-27
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Yuan Xiao Chao, Angelababy, Eddie Peng, Feng Shao Feng, Chen Si Cheng

Yuan Xiao Chao is a gold medal-winning wushu practitioner and actor who was born in Heze, Shandong Province, China, on August 7, 1988. He took up the martial art of wushu in 1998 and won bronze in the 2005 East Asian Games, before winning the World Championships in 2005 and again in 2007. He also won gold at the Asian Games in Doha in 2006 and again in Guangzhou in 2010, after which he retired from competition. He took up acting in the 2010s, when he starred in the movies “Tai Chi Zero” and the sequel “Tai Chi Hero” (both 2012).

Yuan Xiao Chao

Angelababy, also known as Yeung Wing or Yang Ying, is a Chinese model, actress, and singer based in Hong Kong. She was born on February 28, 1989, in Shanghai, China, and moved to Hong Kong at the age of thirteen to pursue her modeling career. She made her acting debut in 2007, focusing mostly on film until 2014 when she joined the cast of “Keep Running”, the Chinese spin-off of the original Korean variety show, “Running Man”. In 2015, she made her first appearance in a television drama. Since then she has taken on various roles, from supporting characters to leads in both dramas and films including, “Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon” (2013), “General and I” (2017), “Entrepreneurial Age” (2018), “Love the Way You Are” (2022), and “Divine Destiny” (2023).

Angelababy

Eddie Peng is an actor and singer. Born on March 24, 1982, in Taiwan, he is of Hakka Chinese heritage. He also is known as Peng Yu Yen. Eddie Peng immigrated to Canada at the age of 13 and graduated from Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver and then attended the University of British Columbia as an economics major. He was discovered when he returned to Taiwan to attend his grandmother’s funeral and decided to discontinue his studies to pursue acting. He made his acting debut in the 2002 television series “Tomorrow.” He has since starred in many films and television dramas, including “Honey and Clover” (2008), “The Concerto” (2009), “My Sassy Girl” (2010) and “Sound of the Desert” (2014).

Eddie Peng

Feng Shao Feng

Chen Si Sheng is a Chinese actor, director, and screenwriter. He was born on February 22, 1978 in Shenyang, China and made his acting debut in 1999. In 2012, he made his directorial debut with the drama, “Beijing Love Story” (2012), a work which won him awards for “Best Directorial Debut” and “Best New Director” in 2014. In 2018, he made his screenwriting debut with the drama, “Great Expectations” (2018). An award winning actor, screenwriter, and director, his works have been well-received the world over.

Chen Si Cheng

Xiong Nai Jin is a Chinese actress who was born in Chongqing, China, on October 14, 1982. She began studying at Beijing Film Academy in 2002 and made her acting debut a year later in the drama series “Crime Scene” – long before she graduated in 2006. She has since gone on to appear in movies such as “Tai Chi Zero” and “Tai Chi Hero” (both 2012), as well as the more recent “Hanson and the Beast” (2017).

Xiong Nai Jin

Daniel Wu is an American-Chinese actor and director who was born on September 30, 1974, in Berkeley, California. He was raised in Orinda, California, and attended the University of Oregon. He made his movie debut in 1998 when he featured in “Bishonen.” He has since gone on to star in numerous movies and dramas, scooping the Best Supporting Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards for his appearance in “New Police Story” (2004). More recently, he has appeared in the drama “Into the Badlands” (2015), as well as movies “Go Away Mr. Tumor” (2015) and “Tomb Raider” (2018).

Daniel Wu

Yang Lu Chan (Yuan Xiao Chao) is a wandering fighter with a unique curse: a horn on his forehead that transforms him into an unbeatable warrior, but each activation brings him closer to death. Seeking to protect himself, he arrives at a secluded village known for its powerful kung fu, which refuses to teach outsiders. The village elder's daughter Yu Niang (Angelababy) initially wants him gone, but everything changes when her former lover Fang Zi Jing (Eddie Peng) arrives with a steam-powered mechanical device, planning to build a railway through their community. Faced with this threat, the villagers decide to resist, and Yang Lu Chan offers to help defend their home. This is a 2012 Chinese martial arts film directed by Stephen Fung.

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