Curse of the Golden Flower stars Chow Yun Fat as a gruesome Emperor of the Tang Dynasty while Gong Li plays the Empress; Jay Chou plays a faithful Prince Jai and Liu Ye plays crown Prince Wan.
The movie potrays Tang dynasty as a beautiful palace with displays of picturesque decoration and many beautiful maidens. All these maidens are beautiful and wears tube-like dressing displaying their colossal bosoms. One must wonder why Zhang Ziyi is not in this movie. Instead, the ever-so-voluptuous Li Man plays Prince Wan’s secret lover, Chan, who’s also the Imperial doctor’s daughter.
In this movie, the Empress (Gong Li) is assumably ill and the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) has ordered his troop of Imperial medics to feed her with medicine every two hours for the past ten years. At one time, the Imperial doctor reveals it to his daughter that one of the ingredients for the medicine will eventually make the taker go insane and the emperor has ordered them to add that ingredient for ten days. Ironically, the Empress hired a secret investigator who happened to be the Imperial doctor’s wife and the Emperor’s former lover (also the mother of Prince Wan!).
Overall, there are a lot of twist and turn but it’s a predictable movie with not much to be awed at, except the beautiful bosoms, um… maidens. Period.
If you haven’t watched the movie, view the Curse of the Golden Flower trailer here
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