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The Kingdom and the Beauty is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Li Han-hsiang with Lin Dai
The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe Kingdom and the Beauty (Chinese: 江山美人; pinyin: Jiang shan mei ren) 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. Although there was minimal Singaporean input in the film-making, the film was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
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C'est une comédie musicale sur un jeune empereur qui est attiré par des histoires racontées à un endroit appelé Kiang-Nan par son tuteur royal. La mère de l'impératrice a le tuteur aller à Kiang-Nan pour le ramener.Actors
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