
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
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

Kingdom Yuen King-Tan
as Da Niu

Power Chan Kwok-Pong
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

Lai Suen