The Last Emperor (1987)

Name: The Last Emperor
Released: 1987
Rating: 7.7
Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong

• Movies, Drama, History

• 163 min

7.6

1500 slaves. 353,260,000 royal subjects. Warlords. Concubines. And 2 wives. He was the loneliest boy in the world.

Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Casting: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Tao Wu, Guang Fan, Henry Kyi, Alvin Riley III, Lisa Lu, Hideo Takamatsu, Hajime Tachibana, Basil Pao, Henry O, Chen Kaige, Liangbin Zhang, Wenjie Huang, Dong Liang, Zhendong Dong, Jiechen Dong, Constantine Gregory, Huaikuei Soong, Ruzhen Shao, Yu Li, Guangli Li, Chunqing Xu, Zhang Tianmin, Hongnian Luo, Shihong Yu, Jun Wu, Lucia Hwong, Jingping Cui, Shi Liang, Junguo Gu, Xu Tongrui, Fusheng Li, Chen Shu, Shuyan Cheng, Daxing Zhang, Ruigang Zu, Yuan Jin, Akira Ikuta, Michael Vermaaten, Matthew Spender, Cai Hongxiang, Glen Murphy, Biao Wang
Countries: China, France, Italy, United Kingdom
Premiere: 1987-10-04
Status: Released

Tags: suicide, experiment, china, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, revolution, drug addiction, opium, arranged marriage, world war ii, emperor, coup d'etat, manchuria, dynasty, reeducation camp, biography, based on true story, autobiography, teacher, beijing, china, dowager, decadence, communism, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1910s, 1930s, japanese occupation of china

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.