Cast
- Gong Li as Lady Zhao
- Zhang Fengyi as Jing Ke
- Li Xuejian as Ying Zheng
- Gu Yongfei as Queen Mother
- Wang Zhiwen as Marquis Changxin
- Lü Xiaohe as Fan Yuqi
- Sun Zhou as Crown Prince Dan of Yan
- Chen Kaige as Lü Buwei
- Pan Changjiang as prison official
- Zhou Xun as blind girl
- Cong Zhijun as old official
- Li Longyin as shop owner
- Li Qiang as Han messenger
- Zhao Benshan as Gao Jianli
- Ding Haifeng as Qin Wuyang
- Hu Yang as young official
- Zhang Shen as dwarf
- Li Hongtao as Li Si
- Wei Chao as Doujiyan
- Han Dong as Qin cart driver
- Li Zhonglin as Qin prison guard
- Liu Tielian as palace ritual eunuch
- Kong Qinsan as face tattooist
- Xie Zengran as younger Wang brother
- Chang Tao as older Wang brother
- Zhang Jinzhan as Yan ambassador
- Zhao Yanguo as artist
- Lin Luyue as warrior
- Liu Jiacheng as warrior
- Chu Xu as warrior
- Liu Bo as warrior
- Liu Liang as warrior
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Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“What is the use of “good” painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)