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Princess Yang Kwei Fei miraculously reproduces the comings and goings of the hero's thought, and it is in this sense that Mizoguchi's realism is most classical.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955 · 1h 32m · APPROVED
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Kenji Mizoguchi
Overview
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 Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets.
Director and cast
- Kenji Mizoguchi Director
- Machiko Kyō as Princess Yang Kwei-fei
- Masayuki Mori as Emperor Xuan Zong
- So Yamamura as An Lushan
- Eitarō Shindō as Kao Li-hsi
- Eitarō Ozawa as Yang Kuo-chung
- Haruko Sugimura as Princess Yen-chun
- Yōko Minamida as Hung-tao
- Bontarō Miake as Chen-Hsuan-li
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Li Lin-fu
- Kinzō Shin as Servant
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