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Format:
Video disc
Title:
The last emperor
Other title(s):
Bernardo Bertolucci's The last emperor
Uniform Title:
Last emperor (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9781604651065
Edition:
Director-approved special edition
Publication Information:
Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, ©2008.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Series title(s):
Number in series:
422.
General Note:
Originally produced as an international motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Audio commentary featuring director Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Mark Peploe, and composer-actor Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Booklet includes: an essay "The Last Emperor, or the Manchurian Candidate" by David Thomson.
Contents:
Manchuria, 1950 -- Peking, 1908 -- First coronation -- Young emperor -- Criminal -- Pu Chieh -- New republic -- Reginald Johnston -- First lesson -- Protests -- Grief -- Spectacles -- Two wives -- Strangers -- Confession -- Reforms -- Departures -- Life outside -- Secondary consort -- Tientsin, 1931 -- Manchuria, 1934 -- Second coronation -- New quarters -- Manchuria, 1935 -- Puppet -- Russians -- Freedom -- Peking, 1967 -- Citizen -- Color bars.
Summary:
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in the People's Republic, and died as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking
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