Richard Li Han Hsiang Chinese 李翰祥 pinyin Lǐ Hànxiáng 7 March 1926 in Jinxi Liaoning 17 December 1996 in Beijing was a Chinese film director Li directed more than 70 films in his career beginning in the 1950s and lasting till the 1990s His The Enchanting Shadow The Magnificent Concubine and Empress Wu TseTien were entered into the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 1962 and 1963 respectively Li also won the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for his work on the movie Xi Shi in 1965 Most of his movies in the 1970s and 1980s were Chinese historical dramas He died in Beijing due to a heart attack He was seventy