The Last Emperor (1987)

7.2	Listal rating
7.9	IMDB rating

China (12), Drama (11), Historical (7), Emperor (6), Epic (4), Biography (4), Royalty (4), Opium (3), Palace (3), Forbidden City (3), WWII (3), Museum (3), Manchukuo (3), Abdication (3), Manchuria (3), Cultural Revolution (3), Japan (3), Japanese (3), Asia (3), Beijing (3)

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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the ... (more)

Directed by

Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring (View all) :

John Lone

Pu Yi - Adult

Joan Chen

Wan Jung

Peter O'Toole

Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston

The Governor

Chen Pao Shen

Big Li

Amakasu

Eastern Jewel

Interrogator

Wen Hsiu

Written by (View all) :

Enzo Ungari

Mark Peploe

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Alexander

A beautiful depiction of Isolation.

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Dec 4 14:24

''All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you're the worst of all!'' He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. The story of the final Emperor of China. John Lone: Emperor Pu Yi / Henry One could state Bernardo Bertolucci creation of a masterpiece on an era of history that would definitely change the relationship of nations throughout the era forever, is putting it mildly to say the least. That he did it with such artistic factual film-making is to say his success was close to the divine. You may conclude that would be a quite accurate statement about The Last Emperor, especially for American film-making, they had nothin...Read more

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