Dong-gun Jang

1930s Shanghai: the glamorous, tumultuous "Paris Of The East" whose salons, streets and bedrooms frame this Chinese adaptation of the French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" - into a lush new vision of Dangerous Liaisons. Aging socialite Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung) still finds herself circling ex-boyfriend Xie Yifan (Jang Dong-kun). Even after years of separation, their attraction - and appetites - smolder just beneath the surface.

The Promise came to American shores with endless hype about its visual splendor--and for once, the hype is deserved. Lush and luminous, almost every shot will make you want to weep from its sheer loveliness. A starving young orphan girl named Qingcheng is offered a deal by a capricious goddess: The girl will be staggeringly beautiful and have all the wealth, delicious food, and fabulous clothing she could ask for--but every man she ever loves will die.