Empress Wu Tse-Tien
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Empress Wu Tse-Tien is a 1963
Hong Kong
drama film
directed by Li Han Hsiang
, about the life of Empress Wu Zetian
. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival
.
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
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...
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....
, about the life of Empress Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian , personal name Wu Zhao , often referred to as Tian Hou during the Tang Dynasty and Empress Consort Wu in later times, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant...
. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival
1963 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Armand Salacrou *Rouben Mamoulian *Jacqueline Audry *Wilfrid Baumgartner *François Chavane *Jean De Baroncelli *Robert Hossein...
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Cast
- Diana Chang Chung Wen - Empress Wang
- Paul Chang - Zhang Yizhi
- Ying Choi Cheung - Zhang Changzong
- Chuang Chiao - Crown Prince
- Baoshu Gao
- King HuKing HuKing Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...
- Li Hua Li - Wu Zetian
- Wei Lo
- Grace Ting Ning - Shangguan Wan'er
- Chun Yen - Xu You-gong
- Lei Zhao - Emperor Gaozong
- Mu Zhu - Outspoken man at restaurant