Year: 1962
Runtime: 136 mins
Language: Japanese
Director: Shigeo Tanaka
In 221 BC Qin Shihuangdi unifies China, and the film portrays his monumental achievements and stark shortcomings. It shows his autocratic rule, abolition of feudalism, a hereditary bureaucracy, the burning of books and burying of scholars, plus lavish projects such as a palace for his concubines and the Great Wall.
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