Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Yôkihi
98 min
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.
- Release date
- May 3, 1955
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Cast
- Machiko Kyô as Princess Yang Kwei-fei
- Masayuki Mori as Emperor Xuan Zong
- Sō 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
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Li Lin-fu
- Kinzō Shin as Servant
- Osamu Maruyama as Li Kuei-nien
- Isao Yamagata as Yang Hsien
- Chieko Murata as Lu-hua
- Noboru Kiritachi as Cuihua
- Yasuko Kawakami
- Fujio Harumoto as Fujio Harumoto
- Tatsuo Hanabu
- Yūzō Hayakawa
- Gen Harada
- Shō Natsuki
- Shizuo Chûjô
- Bontarō Miake as Chen-Hsuan-li
Crew
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Director
- Ching Doe · Writer
- Matsutarō Kawaguchi · Writer
- Yoshikata Yoda · Writer
- Masashige Narusawa · Writer
- Masaichi Nagata · Producer
- Run Run Shaw · Producer
- Fumio Hayasaka · Composer
- Kōhei Sugiyama · Cinematographer
- Kanji Suganuma · Editor