Lover of the Last Empress (1995)
Rating: 5.9/10
Duration: 100 min
Year: 1995
Director(s): Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Description:
The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.
Cast
- Tony Leung Ka-fai as Prince Kung/Yik Shut
- Yu Rongguang as Emperor Hsien Feng
- Lau Shun as General Cai Won
- Chingmy Yau as Hui Yu Lan/Empress Tzu Hsi
- Yvonne Yung Hung as Lady Li
- Valerie Chow as The Queen
- Kingdom Yuen King-Tan as Da Niu
- Power Chan Kwok-Pong as Eunuch Xiao An
- Ku Feng as General Su Shun
- Lo Hung as General Tun Hua
- Teresa Ha Ping as Yu Lan/Tzu Hsi's mother
- Lui Tat as Eunuch Kwok
- Michael Lee Ming-Yeung as Monk
- Julia Cheng Yim-Lai as Prostitute
- Chin Gwan as Imperial Concubine
