Romance of the Three Kingdoms

In 1995, CCTV produced a television adaptation of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was a 84-part series with 44-minute long episodes. The whole series took a 1000-strong production group four years to complete, and recruited over 400,000 civilian participants, including divisions of the PLA. Most of the dialogues used were adapted directly from the novel and extensive battle scenes were live-acted to a breathtaking scale. It was CCTV's most expensive television series to date. The series contained 84 episodes spanning the novel. Some of the actors played multiple roles and some characters were played by different actors in different episodes. The music for the series was composed by Gu Jianfen (谷建芬). full article at wikipedia