Only then does the prince uncover himself – his life has been saved by general Yin Sun (Laertes), Qing Nü’s brother. But instead, Qing Nü (Ophelia), who has loved the prince secretly all along, drinks the wine by accident. Empress Wan intends to poison the emperor with a glass of wine and then to seize the throne. Different plotsģBut it will end in a catastrophe. Both films were inspired by Hamlet, but they are totally different in story, character, picture, music and style.

It has even been nominated for the Golden Globe, but was not so successful in the cinemas. By comparison, Prince of the Himalayas raised attention amongst academics and critics and won several prizes at film festivals in Morocco, Italy and the U.S. The Banquet was a blockbuster in China and a box-office success, but received widespread criticism for its commercial aesthetics. Shortly after that, followed Hu Xue-hua’s Prince of the Himalayas.

First, there was The Banquet by Feng Xiao-gang. 1In the history of Shakespeare adaptations on film, there have been many Hamlet versions, such as the British Hamlet by Laurence Olivier in 1948, the Russian Hamlet by Grigori Kozintsev in 1964, the British-Italian Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli in 1990, the British Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh in 1996 and the American Hamlet by Michael Almereyda in 2000.ĢHowever, the first Chinese versions did not appear until 2006.

Hamlet full movie 1997