A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.
Nel Giappone feudale, O-Haru, una ragazza di corte, si innamora di un giovane di rango inferiore. Scoperta, viene cacciata insieme a tutta la sua famiglia. Il padre, in particolare, le rimprovera la loro nuova condizione e la sprona a guadagnare, così O-Haru ottiene gli effimeri favori di un signorotto e poi discende i diversi stadi della prostituzione, da una casa di piacere fino ai vicoli di un porto, per farsi infine monaca e vivere di elemosina...
L'imperatore cinese Xuan Zong, ancora sconvolto per la morte della moglie, riceve la visita di Yang Kwei Fei, una giovane sguattera con lontani legami di parentela con la dinastia Tang: egli riscontra subito una certa somiglianza con la moglie e se ne innamora. La famiglia Yang che in effetti si era adoperata per esercitare la sua influenza a corte, riesce a prendere il potere con la forza dando luogo ad un regime tirannico. Il generale An Lushan, artefice dell'ascesa di Yang Kwei Fei, non è però nominato tra i ministri del nuovo regime e finisce per capeggiare la rivolta popolare che ha per bersaglio l'intera famiglia Yang. Benché il coinvolgimento della donna nella vita politica fosse allora condannato con la morte, nella rivolta contro il nuovo regime Yang sacrificherà la propria vita per l'imperatore.
Wolmae is a gisaeng living in Namwon. Her daughter, Chun-hyang, is secretly engaged to marry Lee Mong-ryong. Lee leaves for Seoul with his father and the new governor, Byeon Hak-do, begins coveting Chun-hyang.
Sau-chen goes out with the tenant Wong Chun-ching over the protests of her class-conscious parents Eighth Uncle and his wife. To foot the medical bills of his mother, Sau-chen works as a promoter at the Products Expo for Lung Wah Pharmacy and attracts the unwanted attention of the boss Chin Hoi-ngan. Chin desires the woman as a concubine. Acting on the advice of his subordinate Chiu Chik, the boss invents a phantom son and proposes marriage with the offer of a handsome dowry. The employee Wong, short of cash and needs money fast, is drafted as his saviour to meet the parents when the plot is duly exposed. Teaming up with his tenants, Eighth Uncle invites the henpecked husband's termagant wife along and causes a scene. In gratitude of their efforts, the landlord and his wife give blessings to their daughter and her lover.
La giovane e bellissima Song Liang lascia la casa e l'università per diventare la quarta moglie del signor Chen. Il suo sogno è diventarne la favorita, ma scopre ben presto l'ostilità, l'invidia e la perfidia delle altre mogli.
Arun, a married man, has an affair with Priya as he dislikes his wife Leelavathi, who is plain-looking and overweight. When she discovers Arun's affair, she plots with Dr. Sakthivel to win Arun back.
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and “The 7 Spears”, the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over the Aizu prefecture and took its most beautiful young women as concubines. They left behind 7 daughters now seeking out Jyubei Yagyuu to help get revenge.
L'ambizioso re di Quin è ossessionato dall'idea di unificare la Cina divisa in sette regni e diventare il Primo Imperatore. Lady Zhao, sua amante fin dall'infanzia, si offre di aiutarlo e organizza un falso complotto contro il Re. Questo permette al re di Quin di invadere il regno di Yan, che rappresenta il maggior ostacolo alla unificazione del paese. Ma una scoperta dolorosa sulla sua nascita spinge il re a sferrare un attacco sanguinoso.
With World War II looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
In the ancient Chinese dynasties, there were thousands concubines but only one Princess in the palace. To be the only one, girls fought by all means. Two beauties, Mandy came from poor family and Pearl came from aristocracy. They became soul mates and swore they were friends forever and would help each other on the way to the Princess Selection. But they discovered that there was only one girl could be the Princess, and things became different.
Un'avventura erotica popolata di bellezze e tratta dal classico della letteratura cinese 'Jin Ping Mei'.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed.
Delicately flirting with eroticism, the animated film The Banquet of the Concubine, by young Chinese director Hefang Wei, recounts one of the most famous love stories of Imperial China. In this tale of bitter jealousy, nothing can sweeten the heart of an abandoned mistress, not even the luscious lychee.
A brilliant general distinguishes himself by protecting the dynasty's borders while keeping an eye on one of the sons of the king.
During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.