Wuershan (乌尔善) is a Chinese film director of Mongol descent, who was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on June 10, 1972.

[1][2] At 16 he enrolled to a high school affiliated to China's Central Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1992 he was admitted to the oil painting department of the latter.

However, he dropped out the following year, and in 1994 started studying directing at the Beijing Film Academy, graduating from the latter in 1998.

[10] It was released theatrically on 17 March 2011 in Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand simultaneously.

[11] Described as an avant-garde martial arts comedy,[3] the film is split into three stories titled "Desire", "Vengeance" and "Greed," and it follows the "journey of a mystical blade as it passes through the hands of three ambitious men.

The film, which has an 83% approval rating on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes,[13] and is described as a "deliciously nutty love story,"[14] tells about Xiaowei, a malevolent fox spirit, who consumes men's hearts to preserve her beauty and is looking for a heart that must be freely given to her in order to become human, while lovesick Princess Jing, who wears a mask to conceal her scarred face, looks for true love.

Sometimes dubbed as "China's Lord of the Rings",[23] it is the "most ambitious and expensive production in Chinese history.