影片围绕一段武林恩怨展开，无爱不江湖，这一世爱恨纠缠两代情仇。天下首富朱富贵大寿之日突接喜帖，以为有人要强娶爱女朱七七（张琰琰饰），情急之下求助于武林三位各怀绝技的后起之秀——江湖闻名的赏金猎人沈浪（黄海冰饰）、丐帮帮主之子熊猫儿（朱宏嘉饰）、一心为父报仇的王怜花（卓凡饰）。三位少年侠士深入追查，发现是让武林黑白两道闻名丧胆的大魔头“快活王”所为。他要迎娶的并非朱七七，而是朱富贵的亡妻。在保护朱七七安危的同时，熊猫跟王怜花都倾情于她，可朱七七却只对沈浪心生爱意。却不知，沈浪早已心有所属——白飞飞（王艳饰）。由此上演一场纠缠两代恩怨的绝世爱恋，更牵扯出众多武林人士纠缠其中。
影片根据古龙同名小说《武林外史》改编，现有多部影视剧根据此部重量级作品改编。

The Holy Pearl is a 2011 Chinese Television series starring Gillian Chung as the daughter of an archeologist. She time travels back in time to discovers she is a reincarnation a warrior priestess. She teams up with a human-dragon hybrid, to recover a broken magical vase. The story is an unofficial adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's popular Japanese manga series InuYasha.

1942年，抗日战争与第二次世界大战正处于白热化阶段。燎原之火，生灵涂炭，天灾人祸，哀鸿遍野。当军事家和政治家的目光聚焦在一城一郭的征伐劫掠之时，几乎鲜少有人注意到古老的中原河南正爆发一场惨绝人寰的大旱灾。影片的主角老东家（张国立 饰），狡猾、市侩，典型的封建地主，可即便如此也无法对抗这史无前例的灾难，他被迫逃荒，亲眼见证着儿子、儿媳、老伴等亲人的种种死状。他的遭遇是三百万灾民的缩影，面对这群人的苦难，无论是高高在上的蒋委员长（陈道明 饰），还是深入民间报道灾难真相的美国记者白修德（阿德里安•布劳迪 Adrien Brody 饰），以及海内外的每一个人，如何能从这眼前的人间炼狱之景侧目。绝望无止的逃生坎途，中华民族多舛命运的苦难一斑……
本片根据刘震云的小说《温故一九四二》改编。

An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong.

The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society.

The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.