Ye Yan
- Alternative title
- Banquet, The Deadly Banquet, The Legend of the Black Scorpion
- Synopsis
- Feature film which borrows from the plots and themes of Hamlet and Macbeth. Set in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (A.D. 907-60), a time of royal instability in the north and warring states in the south, the Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Princess, the Minister and the General all have their own quests for supreme power. The Empress set up a secret coalition with the Princess and the Minister in attempt to take the throne for the Crown Prince, but her real goal is to take the power for herself, and the Crown Prince wants to use the Empress’ plan for his own quest for the throne. The conflicts finally erupt at a night banquet, at which the Empress starts executing her plan of killing the Emperor, and the Crown Prince takes the opportunity to eliminate his own enemies...
- Language
- Chinese - Mandarin (PRC)
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2006
- Duration
- 131 mins
Credits
- Director
- FENG Xiaogang
- Producer
- John Chong; WANG Zhongjun
- Cinematographer
- Li ZHANG
- Screenplay
- QIU Gangjian; SHENG Heyu
- Music
- DUN Tan
- Art Direction
- Timmy Yip
- Cast
Daniel Wu Prince Wu Luan (Hamlet) GE You Emperor Li (Claudius) ZHANG Ziyi Empress Wan (Gertrude) MA Jingwu The Minister
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Hamlet; Macbeth
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Mandarin with English and Chinese sub-titles.
- Figures
- $22,205,648 (12 October 2006) IMdB. Estimated budget $15,000,000.
- Reviews
- Derek Elley. Variety. (September 3 2006).
Rosenthal, Daniel. 100 Shakespeare Films. London:BFI, 2007, pp51-2.
Issue 4.2 of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation focuses on "Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective," edited by Alex Huang, and contains 14 multimedia essays on MAQBOOL and The BANQUET.
To view the issue, go to http://www.borrowers.uga.edu (accessed 6/2010). The essays are available in PDF and web formats, though only the web version contains film clips.
Production Company
- Name
Media Asia Films
Archive
- Name
Folger Shakespeare Library
- reference@folger.edu
- Web
- http://www.folger.edu External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (202) 544 4600
- Fax
- (202) 544 4623
- Address
- 201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington
DC 20003
USA
Distributor
- Name
Retail outlets
Online Retailer
- Name
hkdvdstore.com
- Web
- http://shop.hkdvdstore.com External site opens in new window
- Notes
- Company, loctaed in the US, specialising in Asian and Hong Kong imports.
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Ye Yan". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av66981 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)