100 minutes
3/17/1995
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.
Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching
as Hui Yu Lan/Empress Tzu Hsi
Tony Leung Ka-Fai
as Prince Kung/Yik Shut
Valerie Chow
as The Queen
Yu Rongguang
as Emperor Hsien Feng
Yvonne Yung Hung
as Lady Li
Yuen King-Tan
as Da Niu
Power Chan
as Eunuch Xiao An
Ku Feng
as General Su Shun
Lau Shun
as General Cai Won
Lo Hung
as General Tun Hua
Teresa Ha Ping
as Yu Lan/Tzu Hsi's mother
Lui Tat
as Eunuch Kwok
Michael Lee Ming-Yeung
as Monk
Julia Cheng Yim-Lai
as Prostitute
Chin Gwan
as Imperial Concubine
Ben Ng Ngai-Cheung
Bao Fang
Mimi Chu Mai-Mai
Pak Yan
Cho Sai
Yu Miu-Lin