Andy Lau as Cai E

Chow Yun-Fat as Yuan Shikai

Nick Cheung Ka-Fai as Liang Qichao

Daniel Wu as Hu Shi

Tony Leung Ka-fai as Fan Yuanlian

Liu Ye as Mao Zedong

Chen Kun as Zhou Enlai

Chang Chen as Chiang Kai-shek

John Woo as Lin Sen

Li Qin as Yang Kaihui

Zhao Benshan as Duan Qirui

Simon Yam as Zhang Jian

Zhou Xun as Wang Huiwu

Dong Jie as Soong Ching Ling

Liao Fan as Zhu De

Zhang Hanyu as Song Jiaoren

Edison Wang as Xiao Zisheng

Jing Boran as Xie Shaomin

Fan Bingbing as Empress Dowager Longyu

Leehom Wang as Luo Jialun

Deng Chao as Chen Yi

Han Geng as Deng Xiaoping

Michelle Bai as Huang Shuyi

Chen Daoming as Gu Weijun

Wang Xueqi as Cai Yuanpei

Ray Lui as Wu Peifu

Huang Jue as Li Da

Huang Xuan as Liu Renjing

Qi Yuwu as Wang Jinmei

Liu Tao as Concubine Jin

Li Xuejian as Yang Changji

Feng Yuanzheng as Chen Duxiu

AngelaBaby as Xiao Fengxian

Bao Bei'er as Kuang Husheng

Jiang Wu as Martyred man

Zhang Yi as Zhou Fohai

Fan Wei as Li Yuanhong

Alex Fong Chung-Sun as Yang Du

Guo Tao as Tao Chengzhang

Huang Lei as Cao Rulin

Guo Xiaodong as Yu Youren

Pan Yueming as Cai Hesen

Tao Zeru as Zhang Xun

Yang Yang as Yang Kaizhi

Zhang Jiayi as Li Dazhao

Ma Shaohua as Sun Yat-sen

Zhang Yishan as Deng Enming

Wang Danrong as Dong Biwu

Jerry Lee as Zhang Guotao

Wang Xuebing as Bao Huiseng

Zhou Jie as Li Hanjun

Dong Xuan as Xiang Jingyu

Michelle Ye Xuan as Li Lizhuang

Liu Yiwei as Duan Zhigui

Liu Yunlong as Jiang Baili

Feng Gong as Feng Guozhang

Yu Shaoqun as Mei Langfang

Li Jing as Yuan Keding

Hou Yong as Tang Shaoyi

Feng Danying as Zhang Cuixi

Xu Zheng as Xu Shuzheng

Yongli Che as Lu Xiaoman

Wang Luodan as Zhang Ruoming

Liu Hua as Cheng Ziqing

Liu Peiqi as Gu Hongming

Qixing Aisin-Gioro as Grieving student

Alex Fong Lik-Sun as Young man in Hong Kong

Dai Xu as Yu Fangzhou

Liang Zhao as Xiao Dezhang

Nie Yuan as Chen Qimei

Chen Jianbin as Gong Zhenpeng

Hong Jiantao as Huang Xing

Liu Jin as Kang Youwei

Myolie Wu Hang-Yee as Aunt Yuan Shikai

Wang Yuexin as Li Fuchun

Fu Xinbo as Gao Junyu

Xia Fan as Zhang Shenfu

Wang Xinjun as Xu Chongzhi

Zu Feng as Deng Zhongxia

Jiang Shan as Mrs. Zhang Zongxiang

Li Chengru as Yang Yide

Zhen Yi as Tao Chengzhang's bodyguard

Yu Xiaoguang as Liu Shaoqi

Tang Wei as Tao Yi

Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah as Young woman in Hong Kong

Guo Jinglin as Zhang Zongxiang

Lin Yongjian as Lu Huixiang

He Yunwei as Translator

Han Sanping as Videographer

Lin Shen as Fang Hao

Tan Kai as Chen Tangiu

Fan Zhibo as Shi Pingmei

Liu Jing as Guo Lingjing

Tian Xiaojie as Shi Zhaoji

Xie Mengwei as Driver

Arman Darbo as Parisian boy

Zhang You as Student shouting slogans

Guo Yongzhen as Liao Zhongkai

Andrew Lin Hoi as

Yang Kaihan as Gong Xinche

Zhu Xiangyang as