The Firmament of the Pleiades
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- Japan
How it feels
This is a Chinese-Japanese co-produced drama set in the late Qing dynasty. It follows the lives of Empress Dowager Cixi, a young eunuch, and a reform-minded scholar as they navigate power struggles and personal ambitions inside the Forbidden City.
historicalslow-burnpolitically tensemelancholicintriguingsombercharacter-drivenformal
What happens
《苍穹之昴》（英語：The Firmament of The Pleiades）2010年上映于中国大陆的中日合拍电视剧，导演汪俊，主演田中裕子、余少群、殷桃、周一围。此剧拍摄於浙江省東陽市横店影视城明清宫苑拍摄基地，基地为按原尺寸仿造的故宫，与当时的香港街创造出同样宏伟的布景。2010年1月2日，日本NHK衛星高清頻道播出了此剧，共25集；同年3月14日，中国北京卫视播出此剧，共28集。该剧最初一共拍摄了41集，而在电视台播放时，被删减剪辑成28集进行播放。中国版和日本版两版在剪辑顺序上有一定的区别；并且，在内容上，日本版比中国版减少了三集，西太后、梁文秀、光绪帝、珍妃等角色的戏份都有所减少。台灣OTT由LiTV 線上影視全劇上架。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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