Princess Yang Kwei-Fei | |
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Original Japanese movie poster
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Directed by | Kenji Mizoguchi |
Produced by |
Masaichi Nagata Run Run Shaw |
Written by |
Ching Doe Matsutaro Kawaguchi Yoshikata Yoda Masashige Narusawa |
Music by | Fumio Hayasaka |
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Distributed by | Daiei Film/Shaw & Sons |
Release date
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May 3, 1955 |
Running time
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98 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (楊貴妃 Yōkihi?, a.k.a. "The Consort Yáng Guìfēi") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Film and Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studio. It is one of Mizoguchi's two color films, the other being Tales of the Taira Clan, made the same year.
The Hong Kong co-producers, by then known as the Shaw Brothers, remade the film in 1962 as The Magnificent Concubine.