The Last Emperor (1987)
Genre: Drama / History
Duration: 160 minuten / 219 minuten (director's cut)
Alternative titles: L'Ultimo Imperatore / Modai Huangi / Le Dernier Empereur
Country:
China / Italy / United Kingdom / France
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole
IMDb score:
7,7 (115.691)
Releasedate: 4 October 1987
The Last Emperor plot
"1500 slaves. 353,260,000 royal subjects. Warlords. Concubines. And 2 wives. He was the loneliest boy in the world."
Peking, 1908. Three-year-old Pu Yi is placed on the Dragon Throne as 'Lord of Ten Thousand Years', emperor of nearly half of the world's population at the time. Despite that, he is the loneliest boy in the world. Three years later, China becomes a republic, but this is hidden from Pu Yi. Life in the Forbidden City does not change. When the boy is 18 and married to two young women, he is banished from the Forbidden City in 1924. Aided by his friend and mentor, the Scotsman Sir Reginald Johnson, he and his family flee to Tientsin...
Actors and actresses
Emperor Puyi
Reginald Fleming Johnston
Wang Jung
Wen Hsiu
Big Li
Governor
Chen Pao Shen
Eastern Jewel
Interrogator
Chang
Reviews & comments
Alathir
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- 2110 messages
- 1624 votes
What a terrible seat, but I just stayed put. Whether I should have done that I don't know, because The Last Emperor of China can't even tie his own shoelaces. He's not a very inspiring person, although he probably doesn't owe that much to himself. The Last Emperor of China might have the title of Emperor, but in fact he had little to say. He was a sort of prisoner of his own title. Despite the fact that for a long time everything goes the same within the Forbidden City in Beijing (which I've already seen myself, it is very expansive), the world outside is changing much faster.
I think there have been far more interesting people than Pu Yi to make a movie about, let alone a 3.5 hour one. Also, the time in the Forbidden City is actually drawn out far too long, although the beginning is perhaps the best. I've seen that 3.5 hours in 5 evenings, that's not often happened to me, but I really struggled to keep my attention.
Translated from Dutch · View original
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