Agency:.Produced by Folimage Studio - Foliascope in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada and Nadasdy Film with the participation of Arte France, La Région Rhône Alpes, Centre Images and the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée. Agency - French program:.Animation and Youth Studio.

Director, Hefang Wei ; screenplay, Hefang Wei ; original music, Normand Roger, Denis Chartrand, Pierre Yves Drapeau ; music recording, Pierre Yves Drapeau ; sound design, Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; recording, Geoffrey Mitchell ; re-recording, Jean Paul Vialard ; voice recording, Loïc Moniotte ; layout, Hefang Wei, Marc Robinet ; animator, Marc Robinet, Hefang Wei, Laurent Repiton ; editing, Hervé Guichard ; digital imaging specialist, Pierre Plouffe ; executive producer, René Chénier ; producer, Pascal Le Nôtre, Emmanuel Bernard, Julie Roy ; co-producer, Nicolas Burlet.

Voice, Xi Wang, Bin Yin, Ye Tian, Dehui Zhang, Shuyu Li, Jie Xiong, Zaoer Tu, Yunyun Gu, Zhuojun Zhao, Shuxian Pan, Ka Lun Cheung, Lei Meng, Gan Guo.

Recorded 2012.

In the Imperial City in the year 746, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li gives a banquet in honour of his favourite concubine, Yang. The guests pay their respects to the great beauty. A magnificent feast is served. The incense burns down, but the celebration is still missing two essential elements: the delicious lychees which the concubine craves and the Emperor himself. As Yang's impatience grows, she drinks more and more. Where can he be? With Sun, the latest concubine! Imagining their sensuous intertwining, Yang is consumed with jealousy and behaves scandalously before the assembled dignitaries. Her frustrated desire and the pain she feels at the Emperor's infidelity harden her heart. She is unappeasable. But it is another who will taste the unjust deserts. 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.  .

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Animated Dreams Grand Prix, 2013 Golden Peg Bar- with a cash prize of 1000€, 2013 Animasian Award, 2013 Jury Award, 2012

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).