"Empty Your Cup" is a fundamental life concept and a central one to martial arts. There isn't room in one's cup to learn anything when the cup is full of preconceptions and prejudices. Lu Yuan (Jackie Chan) imparts this wisdom somewhat poignantly to Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano). The Forbidden Kingdom is a US produced Chinese Wuxia genre film, directed by Rob Minkoff, martial arts choreography by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing and Collin Chou. With the exception of Michael Angarano, these are all major headliner Chinese drama/martial arts/action film actors. Yuen Woo-ping is a wold-renowned martial arts actor and action film choreographer. The story is a Chinese Wuxia genre. The characters they portray are all traditional Chinese novel, Beijing Opera and Chinese film characters including: Zui Quan (Drunken Fist) Kung-Fu Master, Sun Wukong (Monkey King), Xuanzang (English: Tripitaka), Golden Swallow (Golden Sparrow)! , Ni-Chang (White Witch).
