Release Date: June 3, 2011 (limited)
Studio: NeoClassic Films
Director: Christina Yao
Screenwriter: Christina Yao
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Tie Lin Zhang, Hao Lei, Jennifer Tilly
Genre: Drama
Powerful bank-owner Lord Kang is determined to prepare Third Master for financial leadership by molding his son into his own image. The ruthless businessman tries to convince his son to choose a proven unscrupulous bank manager over a more honest one. But the idealistic Third Master has always questioned his father’s autocratic rule and ethics.
The tense relationship is further complicated by Third Master's undying love for his beautiful young stepmother, his first and only love stolen from him by his own father.
"Empire of Silver" is set in China, 1899, among the ‘piaohao’ Shanxi merchants (known as the Wall Street of China) who controlled the whole nation’s finances and whose influence was felt around the world. A hedonistic young man assumes the role of heir to a banking empire he cares little about and reluctantly submits to pressure from his overbearing father, Lord Kang.
Lord Kang is determined to prepare his son, Third Master, for leadership and in “the art of controlling men, “ by molding him in his own image and trying to force him to choose an unscrupulous bank manager to run the family empire over the idealistic son’s preferred candidate of the more honest variety. The tense relationship is further complicated by Third Master’s undying love for his beautiful young stepmother; his first and only love stolen from him by his own father.
As the country enters a time of war and political turmoil, Third Master assumes the reigns of the family empire, and must decide whether to follow his father’s shady ideological path or find his own. Greed, deception and jealousy surface under the pressures of war and the company’s place in the changing society, as paper money and savings accounts begin to replace the old ways of silver hoarding.
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