The Kingdom and the Beauty
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The Kingdom and the Beauty is a 1959 Hong Kong musical-drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang. The film was set in Imperial China, directed by a Hong Kong
based-Mainland Chinese
director and produced by the famed Hong Kong Shaw Brothers film studio, there was minimal Singaporean input in the film-making. Despite this, the film was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
at the 32nd Academy Awards
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
based-Mainland Chinese
Mainland Chinese
Mainland Chinese or Mainlanders are Chinese people who live in a region considered a "mainland". It is frequently used in the context of areas ruled by the People's Republic of China, referring to people from Mainland China as opposed to other areas controlled by the state such as Hong Kong or...
director and produced by the famed Hong Kong Shaw Brothers film studio, there was minimal Singaporean input in the film-making. Despite this, the film was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 32nd Academy Awards
32nd Academy Awards
The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.MGM's and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars in 1959, breaking the previous year's all-time record of nine...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
- Siu Loi Chow
- Lin DaiLin DaiLinda Lin Dai was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during 1950s–60s. She was a star actress in the Shaw Brothers Studio stable....
as Li Feng - Li Jen Ho
- Bo Hong as Liu Jin
- Wei Hong as Li's sister-in-law
- King HuKing HuKing Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...
as Ta Niu - Ting Jing as (singing voice)
- Wei Lieh Lan
- Lam Ma as Chou Yung
- Rhoqing Tang as Dowager Empress
- Margaret Tu ChuanMargaret Tu ChuanMargaret Tu Chuan was a Hong Kong actress.-Career:She made her first film, The Magic Touch, in 1958. The film was directed by Li Han Hsiang who discovered her at age seventeen....
as Village Girl - Yuanlong Wang as Liang Chu
- Chih-Ching Yang as Li's brother
- Lei Zhao as Emperor Chu Te Cheng