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18 December 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
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.Awards:
Won 9 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 12 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Impressive more (93 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Lone | ... | Pu Yi - Adult |
 | Joan Chen | ... | Wan Jung |
 | Peter O'Toole | ... | Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston |
| Ruocheng Ying | ... | The Governor (as Ying Ruocheng) |
| Victor Wong | ... | Chen Pao Shen |
| Dennis Dun | ... | Big Li |
| Ryûichi Sakamoto | ... | Amakasu |
| Maggie Han | ... | Eastern Jewel |
 | Ric Young | ... | Interrogator |
 | Vivian Wu | ... | Wen Hsiu (as Wu Jun Mei) |
 | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | ... | Chang (as Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa) |
| Jade Go | ... | Ar Mo |
| Fumihiko Ikeda | ... | Yoshioka |
| Richard Vuu | ... | Pu Yi - 3 Years |
| Tsou Tijger | ... | Pu Yi - 8 Years (as Tijger Tsou) |
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Also Known As:
L'ultimo imperatore (Italy)Le dernier empereur (France)
Modai huangi (China: Cantonese title)
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
163 min | 219 min (television version)Color:
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2.00 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (1999) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Germany:12 (director's cut) | Germany:12 | UK:15 (director's cut) | Iceland:12 | Brazil:Livre | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-11 (re-rating) | Finland:K-14 (original rating) | France:U | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:12 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | Netherlands:12 (director's cut)Fun Stuff
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The production tracked down several people from Pu Yi's life, including the prison governor and his manservant, to unofficially advise the director. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: Mr. Johnston enters the emperor's service during the 1919 May Fourth student movement. Thus, Pu Yi is 13 years of age, not 15. moreQuotes:
The Governor: [Confronting Puyi in the prison gardens, where Puyi works alone] Perhaps you think we're here to teach men to lie in a new way?The Governor: [Puyi continues working as if trying to ignore the Governor] Why did you sign every accusation made against you? I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this! Someone who will sign anything to please his enemies... to please me!
The Governor: [Puyi continues working] You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo... even the secret agreements. But you couldn't possibly have known about the Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin! Could you? So why did you sign these papers?
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'The Last Emperor' tells the story of Pu Yi, as an adult played by John Lone, the last emperor of China. He was three years old when he first sat down on the Dragon Throne. He didn't know anything. The movie tells his story from that moment in flashbacks. We also get to see Pu Yi when the Chinese Communists have the power and he is imprisoned. Because people have taken care of him the rest of his life, from three years old to the moments inside the prison, it still feels he knows nothing.
To tell you about the life of Pu Yi would be a mistake. You have to see this movie to learn more about it. The strange thing is that Pu Yi can not do and decide much for himself. He is a hero of a movie where he is controlled by rules and other people. That is one of the reasons not many real things happen. We see the emperor grow up, we see him take an empress and a concubine, and then he has to leave the Forbidden City because the enemy is at the gate.
The impressive thing here are the locations and the costumes. Everything looks fabulous and it is not a surprise to find out that the movie was shot on location. With all the extras in those beautiful costumes there are a lot of very impressive scenes. May be the movie is a bit too long for some, it didn't really bother me. Director Bernardo Bertolucci has made a terrific movie.