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Overview

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Writers:
Enzo Ungari (initial screenplay collaboration)
Mark Peploe (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 December 1987 (USA) more
Tagline:
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.
Plot:
The story of the final Emperor of China. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 9 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 12 nominations more
User Comments:
An Example of Quantity and Quality Combining to Make an Unforgettable Film 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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
L'ultimo imperatore (Italy)
Le dernier empereur (France)
Modai huangi (China: Cantonese title)
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Runtime:
163 min | 219 min (television version)
Country:
China | Italy | UK | France
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.00 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
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)
Company:
Hemdale Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The production tracked down several people from Pu Yi's life, including the prison governor and his manservant, to unofficially advise the director. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
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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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Simpsons: Homer the Great (#6.12)" (1995) more
Soundtrack:
Am I Blue more

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39 out of 49 people found the following comment useful.
An Example of Quantity and Quality Combining to Make an Unforgettable Film, 26 September 2000
Author: tfrizzell from United States

"The Last Emperor" is a near perfect film. It was nominated for nine Oscars in 1987 and it won nine (including the Best Picture Oscar). The movie is about the life of Pu Yi (John Lone), China's last emperor. In spite of becoming emperor at the age of three, Yi's reign was more of a burden than anything else. Yi would ultimately end up living an unsavory life of imprisonment which is heartrending to the viewer. "The Last Emperor" is visually stunning. The minute details are amazing. However, the story stands up high as well. Historically accurate for the most part, "The Last Emperor" is easily one of the top 10 films of the 1980s and overall an exceptional achievement in every cinematic department known to man. 5 stars out of 5.

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