Diau Charn was the first color film made at Shaw Brothers Studios. Linda Lin Dai plays the title character, an orphaned girl who works for a government minister in ancient China (ca. 190 A.D.) and is recruited to participate in a plot to topple the cruel tyranny of Prime Minister Dong Zuo. To sum up the plot line, the minster, Wang Yun (Yang Chi-ching), has Diau Charn masquerade as his daughter and, during a visit to the Prime Minister's palace, he promises the girl to the Prime Minister's adopted son, General Lu Bu (Chao Lei), who is quite taken with her (and she with him). The crafty Wang Yun then visits the Prime Minister, Dong Zuo (Lo Wei) and he promises Diau Charn to him as well. Dong Zuo thereupon takes her as his mistress and sets her up in his house right away. When the lovestruck General Lu discovers this, he angrily protests, but Wang Yun lies about it in an effort to turn General Lu against Dong Zuo. Eventually, after the inevitable clash, Wang Yun confronts Diau Charn with yet another task, one that places her in an untenable moral dilemma.
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