1. "Daio" is a Japanese film directed by Lynch / Hideki Takeuchi. 3 parts and 33 episodes. Yuko Asano, Reiko Takashima, Kazuki Kitamura, and Hidetoshi Nishijima starred.
The "Da'ao" series of TV series includes three parts: "Da'ao Meiji/Curtain Ending," "The Great Aohua Rebellion," and "Da'ao Chapter 1," each with a special chapter. The term "Ōo", similar to the ancient Chinese imperial term "harem", originated in the Edo period (Tokugawa shogunate). It mainly refers to the women who serve the shoguns. Including female middle school and concubines. However, the story of "Da'ao" is not as rigorous as the Dahe drama, and many plots are just jokes, of which the historical plots are mostly fictional.
Either of them is set in the Tokugawa shogunate, the Edo period, and the plot of the story is set in Edo Castle, where the wives and concubines of the Edo period shoguns lived, and the relationships and love-hate feuds of the women in the Ōu period depict the prosperity and decline of the Tokugawa shogunate.
2. "Guan Xiang", South Korea, 2013. Directed by Han Jae-rim, starring Song Kang-ho, Kim Hye-so and Lee Jung-jae.
From looking at the person's appearance, it can be very accurately inferred that this person's personality, habits, fate and longevity of the Guan Xiang Jia Na Jing is a declining nobleman, who originally lived in the mountains with her brother-in-law Peng Xian and son Zhen Heng, and followed her to Hanyang in the proposal of The first prostitute in North Korea, Yeon Hong, and in her technical room to help others look at each other to make a living. Just when Najing's fame was spreading, the powerful minister Kim Jong-sui came to him and invited him to enter the palace to select a new generation of talents and look at them one by one, and later learned that Kim Jong-ri wanted to use this to plot to overthrow the Prince of Shouyang and set off a great reaction in the palace, and Najing, who was in crisis, was likely to change the fate of North Korea...
3. The Two-Faced King, Korea, 2012. Directed by Cho Chang-min, starring Lee Byung-hyun, Yoo Seung-yong and Han Hyo-joo.
In the 8th year of Guanghai Jun, the political situation was chaotic and the power struggles threatened the personal safety of the king at all times. In fear, Guang Haijun found Du Chengzhi Xu Jun and asked him to find a way to find a substitute for himself in case of an accident. Xu Jun found a civilian man HeShan who spoke for a living through the brothel, and was surprised to find that the man actually had the same face as Guang Haijun, and also had excellent eloquence and imitation talent, and was almost the perfect candidate for the king's stand-in. Therefore, Xu Jun returned to the palace with Heshan and prepared to carry out the strange plot of "tanuki cat for prince"...
4. "Zhang Xi Concubine", Korea, 2002, 120 episodes. Directed by Kang Byung-taek and starring Kim Hye-so, Jeon Kwang-yeol and Park Sun-young.
Zhang Xi Concubine, whose original name was Zhang Yuzhen, was an ordinary palace maid, who was favored by the king Joseon Suzong because of her outstanding beauty, and gave birth to a prince Joseon Kyungjong, who was later crowned as a Concubine of Jubilee. She wanted to use her beauty and cleverness to depose the then Queen Renxian and then let Su Zong establish herself as empress. Queen Inhyen was the daughter of Shoshu Hyobe. The tutor was strict, the manners were dignified, and there was no beauty and charm of Zhang Xi Concubine, who had been snubbed all the time, and finally forced to abdicate and drive out of the palace due to political turmoil. And Zhang Xi concubine also gradually could not control the situation in the complicated partisan struggle at that time, and was finally given death...
4. Versailles, France, 2015, 10 episodes. Directed by Gary Lespey and starring George Brighton.
The TV series set in the era of Louis XIV of France depicts how the protagonist Louis XIV, in 1667, the year he was 28 years old, sat on the cusp of the French Bourbon Dynasty's ruthless monarchy to solve the problem and build the most luxurious Palace of Versailles in Europe...
5. "Catherine the Great" Russia, 2 seasons and 24 episodes. Starring Marina Alexandrova.
Biographical TV series. It tells the story of catherine the Great's life.
6. "Wolf Hall", UK, 2015, 6 episodes. Directed by Peter Cosminskin and starring Mark Rylance.
From the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister of State of Henry VIII, it tells the story of the Tudor dynasty under Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell, a non-aristocratic man, sought to free England from the control of the Holy See and transform itself from a religious state into a secular state, so he helped Henry VIII divorce Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn, and to the king's favor, he was promoted to chief minister of state. After that, he set out to develop a whole set of institutions for this new type of England, which promoted the interests of the new aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, and laid the foundation for the future parliamentary politics of the British Empire...
7. The Empty Crown, UK, 2012, 4 episodes. Directed by Rupert Gould and starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, etc.
Four new renditions of classic Shakespeare's works are Richard II, Henry IV: Part I, Henry IV: Part II, and Henry V. The four TV movies are known as Shakespeare's "The Hollow Crown" series. "Richard II", "Henry IV", "Henry IV" and "Henry V", the life and death of three generations of kings, constitute a cycle, as if the hollow in the crown, let people sigh.
8. "The Borgia Family" USA/Canada/Ireland/Hungary, 3 seasons and 29 episodes.
This family has been called "the first true underworld family in Western history." Set in 1492, when Pope Alexander VI (real name Rodrigo Borgia) was making a name for himself in Europe...