The Banquet of the Concubine

6.5

Genre: Animation
Run time: 13 min
Premiere: 2012. August 26.

Director: Hefang Wei
Writer: Claire Paoletti Hefang Wei
Starring: Bin Yin Zhang Dehui Gang Guo Ka Lun Cheung

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.