hold住影視天地: 慈禧秘密生活[香港限制級](MKV@2空@中英字)

2015年7月27日星期一

慈禧秘密生活[香港限制級](MKV@2空@中英字)

Lover of the Last Empress (1995)
IMDB LINK: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112672/
Cast: Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Yu Rong-Guang, Valerie Chow Kar-Ling, Chan Kwok-Bong, Yung Hung, Yuen King-Tan, Guk Fung
Director: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Genre: Drama | Western
Runtime: 100 min
Also Known As: Chi Hei bei mat sang wood (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Lover of the Last Empress (Hong Kong: English title)
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English/Chinese hardcoded
Year: 1995
Producer: Wong Jing

Plot/Synopsis

Sleazy historical flick that jettisons accuracy for titillating melodrama. Wong Jing's name is on this picture, so you can get a general idea of what's up.

Director Andrew Lau's semi-serious yet schlocky Category III picture about the last empress of China is an involving, though unbelievable melodrama. Sweet, innocent Yu-Lan (Chingmy Yau) rises to the top of the food chain (Empress Dowager) by learning the art of sex, using it to her advantage, and then being a bitch to everyone who helped her along the way (including Emperor Yu Rong-Guang and his wife Valerie Chow). Helping her is Prince Kung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), who shares true lust with Yu-Lan for years and years.

Thanks to HK storytelling, all of this historical dramatization seems like high soap opera rather than high art. Hanging the fate of a country on incidents like getting your cat boiled really doesn't ring true; Yu-Lan's loss of innocence is more sensationalized than serialized. Add that to the "sex training" sequences and you're looking at The Last Emperor crossed with Sex & Zen. Seriously though, the film isn't as fetid as your usual Category III, and Chingmy Yau turns in a better-than-usual performance. (Kozo 1996)
　皇后（周嘉玲饰）心地善良，却无子嗣，因而贵人们使尽浑身解数争宠，只为争得圣宠，产下阿哥，然而玉兰不够圆滑，处处受人排挤......惠玉兰（邱淑贞饰）自被选入宫后，一心以为可以飞黄腾达，但由于家贫无钱向太监打点疏通，结果倍受其他得宠贵人所欺，又不能讨咸丰皇帝宠爱，因而心灰意冷。幸得她心仪的男人恭亲王奕圻点醒，明白了宫中生活如战场般激烈，遂决定用尽办法诱惑皇帝，争取权力。