Li Han-hsiang | |||||||||||
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Died | December 17, 1996 Beijing, People's Republic of China | (aged 70)||||||||||
Occupation | Film director | ||||||||||
Years active | 1953–1994 | ||||||||||
Awards | Cannes Film Festival Technical Grand Prize 1962 The Magnificent ConcubineGolden Horse Awards – Best Director 1963 The Love Eterne 1966 Hsi Shih: Beauty of Beauties Best Original Screenplay 1971 The Story of Ti Ying 1979 The Voyage of Emperor Chien Lung Life Achievement Award 1997 Lifetime Achievement | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 李翰祥 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李翰祥 | ||||||||||
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Richard Li Han-hsiang (Chinese: 李翰祥; pinyin: Lǐ Hànxiáng; 7 March 1926 in Jinxi, Liaoning[1] – 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.[2] [3]