Empress Dowager Cixi goes from just another pretty face in the harem of the concubines to the First Lady of Vice via various strategies and manipulations in a most-ambitious political conspiracy with spine-chilling viciousness.
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Title: Lover of the Last Empress (1995)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Chingmy Yau | ... | Yu-lan / Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi | |
| Tony Ka Fai Leung | ... | Prince Kung | |
| Rongguang Yu | ... | Hsien-Feng Emperor | |
| Valerie Chow | ... | Empress Dowager Tzu-an | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kwok-Pong Chan | ... | Eunuch An | |
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Yim Lai Cheng | ... | Procuress |
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Gwan Chin | ||
| Ping Ha | ... | Yu-lan's Mother | |
| Feng Ku | ... | Su Shun | |
| Shun Lau | ... | Courtier | |
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Siu Liu Ying | ... | Procuress |
| King-Tan Yuen | ... | Da-niu | |
| Yvonne Hung Yung | ... | Lady Li | |
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A legendary curse is placed on the fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi goes from just another pretty face in the harem of the concubines to the First Lady of Vice via various strategies and manipulations in a most-ambitious political conspiracy with spine-chilling viciousness.
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17 March 1995 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
Ci Xi mi mi sheng huo See more »Company Credits
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There is a whole string of Hong Kong "historical" epics which are just excuses for sexy shenanigans in period costume, including Sex and the Emperor, the Sex and Zen trilogy, the Chinese Torture Chamber stories, and this, the tamest of them all. Chingamy Yau is one of the most striking of HK starlets (and she never does full nudity, even if it means concealments of Austen Powers-style absurdity), but is never really believable as a woman of fearsome power. The relative high production values and Yau's sensational mating dance are all which set this apart.