Lady of the Dynasty

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European di...

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Walter Lang

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Cast

Andy Lau, Kenny Bee, Anita Mui Yim-Fong

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and bury...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Shigeo Tanaka

Cast

Shintarō Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love and she becomes the Pr...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura

When the king of Silla joins forces with the Tang Emperor to take over Korea, the king of Baekje calls on a legendary warrior to protect his country.

Runtime

1h 44m

Cast

Jung Jin-young, Park Joong-hoon, Lee Moon-sik