Li Han-hsiang

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Li Han-hsiang bigraphy, stories - Film director

Li Han-hsiang : biography

7 March 1926 – 17 December 1996

Richard Li Han Hsiang ( 7 March 1926 in Jinzhou, Liaoning, China – 17 December 1996 in Beijing, China) was a Chinese film director. Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s.

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 focused on Chinese historical drama. He died in Beijing due to a heart attack. He was seventy.

Selected filmography

Year Title
1954 Lady from the Moon
1956 Red Bloom in the Snow
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1957 A Mating Story
Lady in Distress
Little Angels of the Streets
A Mellow Spring
He Has Taken Him for Another
1958 Give Me a Kiss
The Magic Touch
Diau Charn
The Angel
Dan Fung Street
The Blessed Family
1959 Love Letter Murder
The Kingdom and the Beauty
The Adventure of the 13th Sister
1960 The Enchanting Shadow
1962 The Magnificent Concubine
1963 Empress Wu Tse-Tien
The Love Eterne
1972 Legends of Lust
Cheating Panorama
The Admarid Girl
1975 The Empress Dowager
1976 The Last Tempest
1983 The Burning of the Imperial Palace
Reign Behind a Curtain
1986 The Last Emperor
Snuff Bottle
1989 The West Empress