Richard Li Han Hsiang (Chinese: 李翰祥; pinyin: Lǐ Hànxiáng; 7 March 1926 in Jinxi, Liaoning - 17 December 1996 in Beijing) was a Chinese film director. Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s. His The Enchanting Shadow, The Magnificent Concubine, and Empress Wu Tse-Tien were entered into the Cannes Film Festival in 1960, 1962, and 1963 respectively.
Li also won the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for his work on the movie Xi Shi in 1965. Most of his movies in the 1970s and 1980s were Chinese historical dramas. He died in Beijing due to a heart attack. He was seventy.
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This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by...
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In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents t...
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The winters in Northern China could become rather bitter and harsh especially if one must endure it ...
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Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Fou...
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Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsia...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crazy Sex (1976) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 2 | The Golden Lotus (1974) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 3 | Four Moods (1970) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 4 | The Winter (1969) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 5 | At Dawn (1968) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 6 | The Love Eterne (1963) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 7 | The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) | Director / Writer | 3 |
