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The Empress Dowager is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Li Han-hsiang with Lisa Lu

The Empress Dowager (1975)

The Empress Dowager
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Length 2h45
Directed by
OriginHong kong
Genres Drama,    Action,    Adventure
Rating68% 3.4174253.4174253.4174253.4174253.417425

The Empress Dowager is a 1975 Hong Kong historical film directed by Li Han-hsiang and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio, starring Lisa Lu as Empress Dowager Cixi.

Synopsis

Although the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi of the Ching Dynasty had promised her nephew, Emperor Kuang-hsu that he had complete autonomy, he found that this was not the case as he attempted to exert his authority over corrupt eunuchs and officials who undermined him with the backing of the Empress Dowager. Young, inexperienced and without a strong cadre of loyal officials to support him, he tries to juggle affairs both public and private. His loveless marriage to Empress Chin Feng and dislike of the Empress further leaves him all the more bereft of any power lever. His only bright spark in a cold gloomy palace was his love for Concubine Chen and a young eunuch who wholeheartedly supports him.

Actors

Lisa Lu

(Tsz Hei, Empress Dowager)Ti Lung

(Emperor Kuang Hsu)David Chiang

(Eunuch Ko Lien Tsai)Ivy Ling Po

(Empress Chin Feng)Ku Feng

(Lord Li Hung-chang)
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