Global Information Lookup Global Information

The Burning of Imperial Palace information


The Burning of Imperial Palace
火燒圓明園
Directed byLi Han-hsiang
Screenplay byYeung Cheun-ban
Li Han-hsiang
Produced byChiu Wai
Li Han-hsiang
Starring
  • Liu Xiaoqing
  • Tony Leung Ka-fai
  • Hong Kwan
  • Chan Wah
  • Wong Pui
Narrated byPak Wah
CinematographyYeung Lam
Hau San-chun
Chiu Lok-tin
Music byYip Shun Chi
Distributed byChina Film Co-Production Corp.
New Kwun Lun Film Production Co. Ltd.
Release date
  • 21 September 1983 (1983-09-21) (Hong Kong)
Running time
86 minutes
CountriesChina
Hong Kong
LanguagesMandarin Chinese
Cantonese
Box officeUS$26 million (est.)

The Burning of Imperial Palace (Chinese: 火燒圓明園 is a 1983 historical drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang. Based on the events in China during the Second Opium War which culminated in the burning of the Old Summer Palace (aka. Yuanming Garden), the film stars Tony Leung Ka-fai as the Xianfeng Emperor and Liu Xiaoqing as a young nobel consort Cixi.

and 21 Related for: The Burning of Imperial Palace information

Request time (Page generated in 1.0571 seconds.)

The Burning of Imperial Palace

Last Update:

The Burning of Imperial Palace (Chinese: 火燒圓明園 is a 1983 historical drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang. Based on the events in China during the Second...

Word Count : 864

Zhang Tielin

Last Update:

Zhang made his debut in the films The Burning of Imperial Palace, Reign Behind a Curtain and Under the Bridge, of which the third one propelled him to...

Word Count : 331

Empress Dowager Cixi

Last Update:

In the 1980s, she was portrayed by Liu Xiaoqing, in Burning of Imperial Palace (depicting her rise to power in the 1850s, and the burning of the Old...

Word Count : 11119

Chinese palace

Last Update:

A Chinese palace is an imperial complex where the court, civil government, royal garden and defensive fortress resided. Its structures are considerable...

Word Count : 1407

Old Summer Palace

Last Update:

called the Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yù Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces...

Word Count : 4128

Reign Behind a Curtain

Last Update:

directed by Li Han-hsiang. Sequel to The Burning of Imperial Palace, this film tells the story of Cixi's consolidation of power. It stars Liu Xiaoqing as Empress...

Word Count : 848

Summer Palace

Last Update:

The Summer Palace (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhéyuán) is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing. It...

Word Count : 3336

Burning of books and burying of scholars

Last Update:

The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered...

Word Count : 2010

Imperial Noble Consort Zhuangjing

Last Update:

The Burning of Imperial Palace (1983) and Reign Behind a Curtain (1983) Portrayed by Bai Qinglin in Sigh of His Highness (2006) Ranks of imperial consorts...

Word Count : 849

Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director

Last Update:

with which the top five nominees advance to the second round of voting. The winner is then selected via a scoring process where 55% of the vote comes...

Word Count : 1025

List of films by box office admissions

Last Update:

Wearing the Sword" 260 million, "Burning of the Imperial Palace" 240 million] "Full House of Joy (1981)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Archived from the original...

Word Count : 10045

Yan Qingyu

Last Update:

Curtain (1982) and The Burning of Imperial Palace (1982). In 1986, she appeared as Xue Baochan in Wang Fulin's Dream of the Red Chamber, adapted from Cao...

Word Count : 635

Hirohito surrender broadcast

Last Update:

going to end the war, believing it dishonourable. As many as 1,000 officers and army soldiers raided the Imperial Palace on the evening of 14 August 1945...

Word Count : 1835

Tuileries Palace

Last Update:

The Tuileries Palace (French: Palais des Tuileries, IPA: [pale de tɥilʁi]) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the...

Word Count : 4113

Winter Palace of Prince Eugene

Last Update:

predecessor's plans. The palace was acquired through auction by Empress Maria Theresa for the imperial court in 1738, along with most of the prince's other...

Word Count : 1127

Emperor Higashiyama

Last Update:

burned the Kyoto Imperial Palace to ashes in 1684 prompting reconstruction that took a year to complete. The effects from this fire on the Imperial family...

Word Count : 1831

List of palaces

Last Update:

The following is a list of palaces by country. Darul Aman Palace, Kabul – the country's most famous palace. Tajbeg Palace – inaccurately known as the...

Word Count : 12150

Galerius

Last Update:

during the first part of his reign, and historians have claimed that Galerius decided to prod him into persecuting them by secretly burning the Imperial Palace...

Word Count : 4950

Enthronement of the Japanese emperor

Last Update:

and have Imperial Guards in political traditional uniforms. It was done indoors, with the elevated stand placed inside the Imperial Palace complex. Only...

Word Count : 4747

Ming tombs

Last Update:

After the construction of the Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) in 1420, the Yongle Emperor selected his burial site and created his own mausoleum. The subsequent...

Word Count : 1064

Persepolis

Last Update:

Apadana, the Hall of a Hundred Columns, the Tripylon Hall and the Tachara, the Hadish Palace, the Palace of Artaxerxes III, the Imperial Treasury, the Royal...

Word Count : 7174

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net