The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.
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Lover of the Last Empress (1995) ORIGINAL TRAILER
Cast
Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching
Hui Yu Lan/Empress Tzu Hsi
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Prince Kung/Yik Shut
Valerie Chow
The Queen
Yu Rongguang
Emperor Hsien Feng
Yvonne Yung Hung
Lady Li
Kingdom Yuen King-Tan
Da Niu
Power Chan Kwok-Pong
Eunuch Xiao An
Ku Feng
General Su Shun
Lau Shun
General Cai Won
Lo Hung
General Tun Hua
Teresa Ha Ping
Yu Lan/Tzu Hsi's mother
Lui Tat
Eunuch Kwok
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