Princess Yang Kwei-Fei

Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
Original Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Kenji Mizoguchi
Produced by	Daiei Motion Picture Company and Shaw Brothers Studio
Distributed by	Daiei Motion Picture Company/Shaw & Sons
Release date(s)	1955
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (楊貴妃, Yōkihi^?, aka "The Empress Yáng Guìfēi") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Studios 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 their company was known as the Shaw Brothers, remade the film in 1962 as The Magnificent Concubine.

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The films of Kenji Mizoguchi

1920s	The Song of Home (1929) Tokyo March (1929)

1930s	The Water Magician (1933) Gion Festival (1933) The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate (1934) The Downfall of Osen (1935) Oyuki, the Madonna (1935) Poppies (1936) Osaka Elegy (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1936) The Straits of Love and Hate (1937) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

1940s	A Woman of Osaka (1940) The Life of an Actor (1941) The 47 Ronin (1941) Miyamoto Musashi (1944) The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945) The Victory of Women (1946) Utamaro and His Five Women (1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947) Women of the Night (1948) Flame of My Love (1949)

1950s	Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) Miss Oyu (1951) The Lady of Musashino (1951) The Life of Oharu (1952) Ugetsu (1953) A Geisha (1953) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) The Woman in the Rumor (1954) The Crucified Lovers (1954) Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) Tales of the Taira Clan (1955) Street of Shame (1956)

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