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Back to the Past

2025 · Science fiction · Jack Lai and Ng Yuen-Fai · 1h 47m

A wrongly jailed inventor forces the time machine back on and takes mercenaries with modern guns two thousand years into the past, meaning to crown himself China's first emperor. Loud, busy action.

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