Lover of the Last Empress

Name: Lover of the Last Empress
Director: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Released: 1995-2-17
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Valerie Chow Kar-Ling, Yu Rongguang, Yvonne Yung Hung

Movie

Title	慈禧秘密生活
User score	5.8
Release date	Mar 17, 1995
Genre	Drama, History
Director	Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Production country	Hong Kong
Production companies	Win's Entertainment Ltd., Wong Jing's Workshop
Run time	100 min.

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.