Sony Pictures presents "Curse of the Golden Flower".
A dramatic and grandiouse film set on the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday wwith his family, bit given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailin Empress (Gong Li), this seems impossible.
For years the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ue_, her stepson, have had and illicit liasion. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his sercret live Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor's daughter.