Princess Yang Kwei-Fei

Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
Original Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Kenji Mizoguchi
Produced by	Daiei Film and Shaw Brothers Studio
Music by	Fumio Hayasaka
Distributed by	Daiei Film/Shaw & Sons
Release date(s)	May 3, 1955
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Japanese movie poster

Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (楊貴妃, Yōkihi^?, aka "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.

Cast [edit]

• Machiko Kyō as Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
• Masayuki Mori as Emperor Xuan Zong
• Sō Yamamura as An Lushan
• Eitarō Ozawa as Yang Kuo-chung
• Isao Yamagata as 楊銛
• Yōko Minamida as Hung-tao
• Noboru Kiritachi as Cuihua
• Chieko Murata as Lu-hua
• Michiko Ai as Honghua
• Eitarō Shindō as Kao Li-hsi
• Tatsuya Ishiguro as Li Lin-fu
• Bontarō Miake as Chen-Hsuan-li
• Haruko Sugimura as Princess Yen-chun
• Osamu Maruyama as Li Kuei-nien
• Sachiko Murase as Chengfei

See also [edit]

• Yang Guifei

External links [edit]

• Princess Yang Kwei-Fei at the Internet Movie Database
• 楊貴妃 at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)

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