The Last Emperor (Import) (DVD)

The story of Pu Yi, who ascended to the Imperial Throne in China at the age of three and became the country’s last Emperor. Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi is a prisoner in the palace he rules over. Outside, real power changes hands with each coup d'etat. Pu Yi grows to manhood, is tutored by a Westerner (Peter O'Toole), and marries a gorgeous princess (Joan Chen). However, the adult Pu Yi (John Lone) is destined for a communist re-education camp when the war is over. From start to finish, Pu Yi is a passive antihero who can never come to grips with the idea that the absolute power conferred on him as a child was only a mirage. The mistakes Pu Yi made trying to realise that power--especially collaborating with the Japanese during the war--provide Bertolucci with the chance to explore his familiar theme of collaboration and its moral consequences (as he did in THE CONFORMIST and 1900). In the end, Pu Yi seems to have reached a kind of peace, and the terrible waste of a special man's life disappears into a drab, grey-clad Beijing.The true story of Pu Yi, who at the age of three toddled to the Imperial Throne to become 'Lord Of 10,000 Years', China's very last Emperor. Filmed entirely in China, this is the first Western film to be made about modern China with the full co-operation of the Chinese Government.

• Category:  Video  »  Drama  »  Historical
• Format: DVD   Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
• Region: Region 0 (Can be played worlwide.)  Learn more about Region formats.
  
• Number of Discs: 1
• UPC/EAN: 5060034576259
• WAPI (Tower ID): 107089482
• Studio: OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
• Release Date: July 10, 2006
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #97436 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
• #13220 in Drama (See Top 100 Drama Bestsellers)
• #4 in Historical (See Top 100 Historical Bestsellers)

There's no faulting the use of genuine locations, the magnificent costumes of Vittorio Storaro's breathtaking cinematography
Total Film~13/09/2006

A film of unique, quite unsurpassed visual splendor, THE LAST EMPEROR makes for a fascinating trip to another world
Variety~13/09/2006

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