Xiucen Yin

Empress Wu rose to power after the decline of the Tang Dynasty and ruled at a time when women were still shackled by tradition and a patriarchal social structure. From 605 to 750 A.D., she founded the Zhou Dynasty. This film traces her reentry into the Imperial Palace as a favored concubine, her rise to power and her dalliances with her lovers, the Zhang brothers, who later conspire to remove her from the throne. (Cinema Epoch)

Anthology film containing shorts by 8 Lianhua Studios directors showing off various cinematic styles with a linked patriotic theme.

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on (imdb)