"why not let the cries of war be our song / waves that crack the cliffs shall not be wrong"

I gotta say, Takeshi Kaneshiro can smirk himself a damn fine Zhuge Liang.

(The ways Red Cliff played with, both using and not-using-with-nods, material from Romance of the Three Kingdoms was also fun. Pity the desire for a climactic personal confrontations crossed with the constraints of history resulted in an ending that made no sense.)

---L.