The Last Emperor

Description

The Last Emperor

末代皇帝

Director: Bernardo Bertolucc
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen
Order No. D8117
EAN: 6937475385094
Picture Format: NTSC (good for North American users)
Length: 156 min.
Number of Disc: 2
Language: Chinese with English and Simplified Chinese subtitles
Publisher: Chinese Film Audio & Video Press
Price: $19.95

Pu Yi, the last emperor in China’s history, came to the throne at the age of three. As a kid he grows up in the game of being an emperor and later he finds that it is not a game but a fact. However he realizes that he is nobody but a protagonist in a farce, in which he is only a puppet with the symbol of power but can never exercise it. “Pu Yi becomes, by turns, a playboy, a dupe to the Japanese, and a victim of China's cultural reforms and re-education programs.”