[1] The Warrior and the Wolf is being co-produced by companies from Hong Kong (Edko Films), Singapore (MediaCorp Raintree Pictures), and China (Perfect World Culture).

General Zhang is the commander of a northern border's army camp, which repels the attacking barbarians every year.

Shortly before the soldiers leave the village to continue their return home, the woman tells Lu that legend says that for her people, being intimate with outsiders leads to them becoming wolves.

Years later the barbarians surrender to Imperial China, and General Zhang returns to the region to deliver the court's messages.

Perry Lam writes in Muse Magazine, 'The original story is both a heartfelt tribute to physical love as a life force and an angry condemnation of the aggressive instincts of human beings... To transport the story to ancient China, and, through the novelty of casting, to have a Japanese actor play the role of a Chinese warrior and an American Vietnamese play a Chinese widow, is not to challenge the imagination but to impoverish it.