This lavish Eastmancolor and Shawscope production set a standard in Hollywood-style tune-fests that has rarely been surpassed. It won awards for Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Sound Recording, and is pure pleasure.
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Movie Queen - Linda Lin Dai plays both mother and son in this lavish fable about a goddess who falls in love with a mortal scholar (Cheng Pei-pei, in her debut). Over two years in production, it was released on the first anniversary of Linda's tragic...
BEYOND THE GREAT WALL is a retelling of of the famous Chinese story of Wang Zhaojun, a tale told in many different formats, in plays and songs, going back as far as the Han Hou Shu, the official histories of the Han Dynasty written in the 5th Century...
Wang Chao-chun, Yang Gui-fei, Xi Shi and Diao Charn are Chinese's best known classic beauties all sacrificing their hapiness for their emperor's good. Director Li Hanhsiang ecame famous making films about these :chaste ladies", Diau Charn being the f...