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The Emperor and the Assassin (Chinese: 荊軻刺秦王; pinyin: Jīngkē cì qínwáng; lit. 'Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin'), also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998–1999 Chinese historical romance film based primarily on Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, as described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.
The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse, which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San Francisco's Mission District to support her family back in Vietnam. Additionally, Burton Wolfe directed a musical adaptation which ...
About the war between Lady Đặng Thị Huệ and Lady Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan. Mỹ nhân: 2015: Đại Việt (Vietnam) Kim Vân Kiều: 1924: 17 century: Da Ming (China) The first film produced in Vietnam. Based on the story of Jin — Yun — Qiao: Vương Thúy Kiều: 1989: 17 century: Da Ming (China) Based on the story of Jin — Yun ...
Chen Yisha as Lady Zhao, the Queen Dowager. Ying Zheng's mother and Lü Buwei's lover who was honoured as "Queen Dowager" after her son's ascension. After her lover, Lao Ai is killed, she goes crazy and is confined in the Southern Palace under Ying Zheng's command. Yang Tong as Li Zhong Ying Zheng's closest friend and head of the royal palace ...
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.Adapted for the screen by Lu Wei, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, the film is set in politically tumultuous 20th-century China, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.
Hapkido (Chinese: 合氣道), released as Lady Kung Fu in North America, is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Huang Feng and starring Angela Mao. [1] The film co-stars Carter Wong and Sammo Hung, and has early cameo appearances from Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao and Corey Yuen. It was released by Golden Harvest.
The Legend of Lady Yang is a Hong Kong television series based on the romance between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty and his consort Yang Yuhuan. The series was produced by TVB and it stars Anne Heung , Kwong Wa , Melissa Ng , Florence Kwok & Louis Yuen as the casts of this series.
The story is set in the Tang dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the 9th century CE. The story is known in the West as Lady Precious Stream ("Precious Stream" being a loose translation of the female protagonist's given name, Baochuan), as it was adapted for the British stage by Hsiung Shih-I , a Chinese academic living in England.