Direction: Li Han-Hsiang

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Li Han-Hsiang. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Enchanting Shadow

1960 · Movie · 83 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Betty Loh · William Fung · Hao Li-Jen · Zhao Lei

Synopsis A young scholar spends the night in a creepy temple that is said to be haunted. He doesn't believe in the rumors, but after running into a Taoist swordsman, he meets a beautiful lady ghost. She is forced by an...

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The Magnificent Concubine

1962 · Movie · 103 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Li Li-Hua · Yan Jun · Zhu Mu · Li Hsiang-Chun

Synopsis The Magnificent Concubine (Chinese: Yang Kwei Fei) is a 1962 Hong Kong drama film in color directed by Li Han Hsiang and is a remake of the Kenji Mizoguchi film Yōkihi (1955). The Magnificent Concubine was entered into the 1962...

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Beauty of Beauties

1965 · Movie · 145 min. · Taiwan

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Chiang Ching · Zhao Lei · Chang Fang-Hsia · Chang Feng

Synopsis Rarely screened, this spectacular historical epic swept the Golden Horse awards, winning for best feature film, director, actor, color cinematography, and art direction. In a story drawn from China’s legendary Warring States Period, the King of Yue, Goujian, is defeated...

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Back Door

1960 · Movie · 99 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Wu Butterfly · Wang Yin · Li Hsiang-Chun · Felicia Wong

Synopsis Butterfly Wu is an infertile older woman who would like to adopt a neglected little girl (Wong Oi-Ming) who plays outside the stoop of the back entrance of the building opposite her building's back entrance. The girl's stepmother (Weng Mu-Lan)...

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Four Moods

1970 · Movie · 140 min. · Taiwan

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The Golden Lotus

1974 · Movie · 112 min. · Hong Kong

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The Last Tempest

1976 · Movie · 118 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Ti Lung · Hsiao Yao · Lisa Lu · Miao Tian

Synopsis Despite Kuang Hsu’s enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress. When his attempts to reform the Imperial system are thwarted by the Dowager Empress,...

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Legends of Lust

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · Hong Kong

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Empress Wu

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Li Li-Hua · Yan Jun · Zhao Lei · Diana Chung-Wen Chang

Synopsis In this biographical drama, Wu Tse-tien, a Chinese empress who ruled during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-906), is desperate to keep her throne. To maintain her status she begins massacring any and everyone, including her own sons, that might oppose...

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Kingdom and the Beauty

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · Hong Kong

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Tiger Killer

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Ti Lung · Wang Ping · Ku Feng · Wang Lai

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The Emperor and the Minister

1982 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong

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Beyond The Great Wall

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong

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The Dream of the Red Chamber

1977 · Movie · 108 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Brigitte Lin · Sylvia Chang · Michelle Yim · Deborah Dik

Synopsis Chi Pao-yu (Brigitte Lin) is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu (Sylvia Chang), but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.

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The Ghost Story

1979 · Movie · 102 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Lisa Chiao · Fung Ging-Man · Hu Chin · Kung-Wu Huang

Synopsis An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it’s inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.

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Moods of Love

1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Yueh Hua · Ku Feng · Kang Kai · Chiang Nan

Synopsis Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second,...

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The Adulteress

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang · Ho Meng-Hua

Cast Li Li-Hua · Guan Shan · Li Hsiang-Chun · Ouyang Sha-fei

Synopsis The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her...

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Sensual Pleasures

1978 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Chen Ping · Shirley Yu · Chan Sze-Kai · Siu Yam-Yam

Synopsis Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.

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Northern Ladies of China

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Li Han-Hsiang

Cast Jackie Chan · Chan Shen · Cheng Kang-Yeh · Kong Ling

Synopsis Even at an early time during Hong Kong's erotica cinema development, highly renowned directors were willing to sacrifice their reputations and established actresses were lining up to take off their clothes. In Facets Of Love, the undisputed king of epic...

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The Love Eterne

1963 · Movie · 122 min. · Hong Kong

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