Kenji Mizoguchi – Yôkihi aka The Empress Yang Kwei Fei aka Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Yôkihi is a panoramic period romance about the legendarily beautiful and graceful common-born woman loved by the last T’ang Emperor Xuan Zong. The pure love shared by the royal couple is offset by the political turmoil and corruption of the 8th century, as a dynasty breathes its last dying gasps.
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Yokihi was the first of Mizoguchi’s films to be made in colour. An opportunity afforded him by a tactical alliance between the studio he worked for and a Chinese company known as Shaw and sons, a forerunner of the famous Shaw brothers studio who would later go on to dominate Asian cinema. Seen as so ridiculous by Chinese cinemagoers of the period that it contributed to the collapse of the Shaw and sons studio. (…) Yokihi’ is the Japanese pronunciation of Yang Guifei, the name of a high-ranking imperial concubine at the court of the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. (…) The story of Yang Guifei is known to most Chinese people of reasonable education. Yang is referred to as one of the four great beauties of Chinese literature, putting her on a similar footing as Helen of Troy.
Yookihi (Princess Yang Kwei-Fei) - Kenji Mizoguchi (1955).mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h 31mn Size: 2.37 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 770x576 Aspect ratio: 4:3 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 3 399 Kbps BPP: 0.320 Audio #1: Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 320 Kbps
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English
