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The Great Wall (1962) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1962 · 136 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Shigeo Tanaka
- Starring
- Eijirô Tôno, Isuzu Yamada, Machiko Kyô, Ken Mitsuda, Ken Utsui, Fujiko Yamamoto
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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