Amazon.co.uk: The Last Emperor [1987]: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong (III), Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Bernardo Bertolucci: Video

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The Last Emperor [1987]
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Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong (III)
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Language English, Japanese
Classification:
Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
VHS Release Date: 21 Jun 1999
Run Time: 156 minutes

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(7 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004CJDU
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,297 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
Popular in these categories:
#6 in Video > World Cinema > Directors > Bertolucci, Bernardo
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale. The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China. It follows his life from its elite beginnings in the Forbidden City, where he was crowned at age three and worshipped by half a billion people. He was later forced to abdicate and, unable to fend for himself in the outside world, became a dissolute and exploited shell of a man. He died in obscurity, living as a peasant in the People's Republic. We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but The Last Emperor focuses more on visuals than characterisation anyway. Filmed in the Forbidden City, it is spectacularly beautiful, filling the screen with saturated colours and exquisite detail. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Synopsis
The true story of Pu Yi, who, at the age of three toddled to the Imperial Throne to become 'Lord Of 10,000 Years', China's very last Emperor. Filmed entirely in China, the first western film to be made about modern China with the full co-operation of the Chinese Govern-ment.