The Kingdom and The Beauty 江山美人

Released Year: 1959
Directed by 李翰祥 Han Xiang-Li

Casted by:
林黛 Lin Dai as 李凤 Li Feng
赵雷 Zhao Lei as 朱德正 Zhu De Zheng

Story:

Zhu De Zheng is a young empreror and he did not like the boring lifestyle in the palace. After he heard about the fancy Jiang Nan, he sneak out the palace without notifying his mother. He met the beautiful Li Feng in Mei Long Village and was quickly attracted to her beautiness.

The talented young empreror finally tackled the beauty and have a night with her. The next morning, Li Feng was shocked to know that Zhu De Zheng is the emperor and cried over it. She knows that the emperor will just leave her like that, but the emperor promised that he will back to make her the empress when he reach palace.

Just when the emperor reached the palace, his mother refuse to accept Li Feng and arrange other girls to attract the emperor from remembering Li Feng. In the meanwhile, Li Feng also find out that she was pregnant. After giving birth, Li Feng was criticized by the every villagers of being a slut. She was depressed and sad until she become sick. Her friend, Da Niu went over to the capital city to look for the emperor and make song to attract attention. Finally he managed to do it!

Zhu De Zheng sent his armies to pick up Li Feng into the palace. The sick beauty used all her life to reach the palace but finally she was dead in the hug of the emperor.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

After being digitalized, the movie become much more clearer for us to view. I really have to thanks all those people who discovered the digital-thingy coz i wouldn't wanna miss a good movie like this. Well, this is a very very best film in the 1950s' of Hong Kong.

Its not easy to be an actor/actress at that time. You really have to know how to sing, dance and all the stuff... And Lin Dai is definitely a beauty at that time :)