However, they sleep apart on their wedding night and only finally consummate their relationship later. The emperor finally commands her to return and become an official consort, giving her the highest title of Yang Guifei (“Imperial Concubine Yang”). Yang Yuhuan goes to a Daoist temple for seclusion and refuses to come back to court even when the emperor, and then his newest concubine, Consort Mei (Ning Jing), try to persuade her. Li Mao becomes jealous of the emperor’s attentions towards Yang Yuhuan and, when she becomes pregnant, forces her to abort the baby. When the emperor finds out from his faithful court eunuch Gao Lishi (Wu Gang), Consort Wu commits suicide in front of him and Yang Yuhuan. It later turns out that Consort Wu set them up so that her own son, Li Mao, could inherit the throne. He plots an assassination but is caught and executed, along with two other princes, by the emperor. Encouraged by General Li (Gao Bo), the crown prince Li Ying (Wu Yue) becomes jealous that Consort Wu, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan are becoming too close to the emperor. Noting the emperor’s interest, his favourite concubine Consort Wu (Chen Chong) chooses her as a wife for their son, the prince Li Mao (Wu Zun). The daughter of an official, she has moved to the house of her cousin Yang Guozhong (Zhang Junyu), following the death of her parents. At a funeral ceremony to honour the dead on both sides of a border war, Emperor Xuanzong, aka Li Longji (Li Ming), is impressed by a beautiful young dancer, Yang Yuhuan (Fan Bingbing).
Stunningly mounted but bloodlessly played drama about imperial concubine Yang Guifei.Ĭhang’an (modern Xi’an), central China, Tang dynasty, AD 733. Directors: Shi Qing 十庆, Tian Zhuangzhuang 田壮壮, Zhang Yimou 张艺谋.
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