The Magnificent Concubine
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The Magnificent Concubine is a 1962
Hong Kong
drama film
in color directed by Li Han Hsiang
and is a remake of the Kenji Mizoguchi
film Yōkihi
(1955). The Magnificent Concubine was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
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1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....
Hong Kong
Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
in color directed by Li Han Hsiang
Li Han Hsiang
Richard Li Han Hsiang was a Chinese film director. Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s....
and is a remake of the Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...
film Yōkihi
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Studios and Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studio. It is one of Mizoguchi's two color films, the other being Tales of the Taira Clan, made the same year....
(1955). The Magnificent Concubine was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Tetsuro Furukaki *Henry Deutschmeister *Sophie Desmarets *Jean Dutourd *Mel Ferrer *Romain Gary *Jerzy Kawalerowicz *Ernst Krüger...
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Cast
- Hsin Yen Chao
- Wen Shin Chen
- Bin HeBin HeBin He, is an accomplished American biomedical engineering scientist. Currently He serves as the Director of both the Center for Neuroengineering and the Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory at the University of Minnesota...
- (as Bin He) - Wen Chung Ku
- Hsiang Chun Li
- Li Hua Li
- Ching Lin
- Ying Li
- Ti Tang
- Chih-Ching Yang
- Chun Yen
- Lei Zhao
- Mu Zhu - Rebellious captain