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The Last Emperor (VHS)BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI PETER OTOOLE

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Item number:190339681813
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Rating: PG-13Leading Role: John Lone
Director: Bernardo BertolucciUPC: 042995771534
Format: NTSC (US, Canada)Condition: Very Good
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Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi, the Manchurian emperor of China who ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of three, 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 reeducation 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 realize 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.

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Cast:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dennis Dun, Joan Chen, John Lone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Victor Wong

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Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound, Surround Sound

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The film premiered on the closing night of the Tokyo International Film Festival, October 4, 1987.

Bertolucci shot the film on location, and the Chinese government allowed him to film in the Forbidden City, which for years had been closed to tourists and non-Chinese, and which had never before been filmed.

Most critics agreed that this film contained one of the most lavish production designs in cinema history. Many of the costumes were Chinese originals, and the estimated budget was $25 million.

This was Bertolucci's first film since TRAGEDY OF A RIDICUCLOUS MAN (1981), and it ended his six-year hiatus from directing.

A longer director's cut of THE LAST EMPEROR was released in the United States in 1998.

Editorial reviews
"...Numbingly beautiful....Sumptuous chinoiserie..." -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - p.71 - Troy Patterson (03/05/1999)

"...A film of unique, quite unsurpassed visual splendor, THE LAST EMPEROR makes for a fascinating trip to another world..."
Variety - Cart. (10/07/1987)

"...[The film] has the feel of other-worldliness, of science fiction..."
Film Comment - Harlan Jacobson (07/01/1987)

"...If you want a staggering and certainly singular movie experience, THE LAST EMPEROR will do very nicely..."
Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson (11/29/1987)

"[T]here's no faulting the use of genuine locations, the magnificent costumes of Vittorio Storaro's breathtaking cinematography."
Total Film - Rob Leedham (04/01/2004)

Awards
1987 Academy Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Academy Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay: Mark Peploe
1987 Academy Awards, Best Art Direction - Set Decoration
1987 Academy Awards, Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
1987 Academy Awards, Best Costume Design: James Acheson
1987 Academy Awards, Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Academy Awards, Best Film Editing
1987 Academy Awards, Best Original Score: Cong Su
1987 Academy Awards, Best Original Score: David Byrne
1987 Academy Awards, Best Original Score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
1987 Academy Awards, Best Picture
1987 Academy Awards, Best Sound

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