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Released Year: 1987
Runtime: 163 minutes
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
Casts: Constantine Gregory, Peter O'Toole, Henry O, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vivian Wu, Ric Young, John Lone, Lisa Lu, Chen Kaige, Victor Wong, Joan Chen, Daxing Zhang, Dennis Dun, Jade Go, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ruocheng Ying, Maggie Han, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Yu Li, Fumihiko Ikeda, Tao Wu, Hideo Takamatsu, Basil Pao, Shi Liang, Shu Chen, Cai Hongxiang, Glen Murphy, Biao Wang, Tianmin Zhang
IMDB: The Last Emperor (1987)
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Chicago Sun-Times -
It probably is unforgivably bourgeois to admire a film because of its locations, but in the case of The Last Emperor the narrative cannot be separated from the awesome presence of the Forbidden City, and from Bertolucci's astonishing use of locations, authentic costumes and thousands of extras to create the everyday reality of this strange little boy.
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Empire -
The small screen doesn't quite do justice to the rich visuals but with an incredible story and fine performances, it is still a compulsive and moving epic.
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TV Guide Magazine -
This grand and powerful biography begins in 1908 when, at the age of three, Pu Yi was named emperor of China and follows him through a tumultuous life inextricably intertwined with the history of modern-day China, one that that ended with the once-coddled emperor working quietly as a gardener at Peking's Botanical Gardens.
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Boston Globe -
The most startling achievement of The Last Emperor is that it accomplishes what seems to have eluded Bertolucci for some time. He has found the small in the large and, in many ways, he has created what many thought impossible -- an intimate epic. [18 Dec 1987, p.95]
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Chicago Reader -
Bernardo Bertolucci's visually ravishing spectacle about the life of Pu Yi is a genuine rarity: a blockbuster that manages to be historically instructive and intensely personal at the same time.
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The Last Emperor (1987)
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 People's Republic.
The Last Emperor (1987)
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Information
Released Year: 1987
Runtime: 163 minutes
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
Casts: Constantine Gregory, Peter O'Toole, Henry O, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vivian Wu, Ric Young, John Lone, Lisa Lu, Chen Kaige, Victor Wong, Joan Chen, Daxing Zhang, Dennis Dun, Jade Go, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ruocheng Ying, Maggie Han, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Yu Li, Fumihiko Ikeda, Tao Wu, Hideo Takamatsu, Basil Pao, Shi Liang, Shu Chen, Cai Hongxiang, Glen Murphy, Biao Wang, Tianmin Zhang
IMDB: The Last Emperor (1987)
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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 People's Republic.
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Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times -
It probably is unforgivably bourgeois to admire a film because of its locations, but in the case of The Last Emperor the narrative cannot be separated from the awesome presence of the Forbidden City, and from Bertolucci's astonishing use of locations, authentic costumes and thousands of extras to create the everyday reality of this strange little boy.
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Empire -
The small screen doesn't quite do justice to the rich visuals but with an incredible story and fine performances, it is still a compulsive and moving epic.
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TV Guide Magazine -
This grand and powerful biography begins in 1908 when, at the age of three, Pu Yi was named emperor of China and follows him through a tumultuous life inextricably intertwined with the history of modern-day China, one that that ended with the once-coddled emperor working quietly as a gardener at Peking's Botanical Gardens.
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Boston Globe -
The most startling achievement of The Last Emperor is that it accomplishes what seems to have eluded Bertolucci for some time. He has found the small in the large and, in many ways, he has created what many thought impossible -- an intimate epic. [18 Dec 1987, p.95]
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Chicago Reader -
Bernardo Bertolucci's visually ravishing spectacle about the life of Pu Yi is a genuine rarity: a blockbuster that manages to be historically instructive and intensely personal at the same time.
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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 People's Republic.
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 People's Republic.
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 People's Republic.
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 People's Republic.