This movies is based on two books written by supporting characters in the movie. The first is the account of his youth written by his Scottish tutor, a Puyi loyalist who flew the Manchukuo flag at his lake house in Scotland until his death. The other was his jailer. The governor that oversaw his imprisonment for 10 years. He grew up in Manchuria and supported the emperor until his family were killed by the Japanese and he joined the Communist resistance. He saw Puyi as a war criminal at first but over time grew sympathetic to him. After he was purged during the Cultural Revolution he escaped to Hong Kong and wrote a book describing Puyi as a tragic character.
Thank you for posting this. The tutor was Reginald Johnson. According to the English Wikipedia article on the film, the governor of the prison was Jin Yuan. What was the name of his book? Is it available in English? The film is also based on Pu Yi's autobiography. Apparently, Bertolucci read it before embarking on the film.
This scene takes a lot of dramatic license. Puyi was handed over in August 1950, it was not freezing cold. He had been living in a luxury hotel in Russia with his servants. He had expected to be treated badly when he was delivered to China, but was surprised the officials meeting him offered him tea and food.
Puyi wasn't living in a hotel in Russia. He was in Russian prison after he was caught by the Soviet in Manchuria. Had the Nationalist Party aka Kuomintang defeat the CCP instead, Puyi would have died in Russian prison since the Soviet refused to hand him over to Kuomintang and if he was send back to China, he would have been executed.
@@player2-lightwater914 Not so. Puyi was never at a gulag in Russia. He was housed at two places. First a sanatorium in Chita. This was a mineral springs resort. Puyi was found of this place. He had good food and a team of doctors, and could even go for walks outside. He was so well treated he thought Stalin would send him into exile in the West. Later he was sent to Khabrovsk. There he was under house arrest in a mansion with his servants. The place is a tourist attraction now, known as the Khabrovsk Imperial Palace due to the association with its most famous occupant.
This scene is scary to say the least the dark somewhat dystopian backround the stressful backround music gives you the sense of hopelessness and makes you feel glad that you're not among those prisoners Bernardo Bertolucci was a genious
The best movie of all time, there are no good nor bad charactercs everyone is grey like in reality, great pictures and scenography of The Forbidden City and awesome story of transformation from what looks like medieval times at the beggining to modernity at the end. To me puyi was always just an example of transformation of China, hence the movie is about the country itself, story of China is seen through puyi
Puyi, for good or for bad will always leave a lasting memory in Chinese history. What a time in history to take the thrown of emperor at just 2 years old.
i saw this movie few years after his debut and I still wonder how a great and old institution like imperial china crumbled so qhickly.probably the stubborn refuse to adeguate the monarchy to modernity let open way to communists to win people's approval and end the empire.
Our man Puyi tried to do a Hannah Baker in this scene. In all seriousness, Puyi had a shit life. Manipulated by the majority of those he encountered. Every person that was a good influence on him was taken away from him.
The passing of time in the film is a great example of how drastically the world changed in the 20th century, and how the Emperor was the last final link to a pre-industralized society in a way.
@@IrishCarney idk, Hollywood certainly tailors to China today but The Last Emperor kind of a pioneer in that regard, it wasnt a Hollywood film, first of all, it was independently produced by a British filmmaker, who didn’t even start production until the PRC approved it, and they were pretty heavily involved in the production, most of the extras were members of the People’s Liberation Army
@@trenttrip6205 Different era. China then was very conscious of how bad the Mao era was and wanted to open up to the world to help climb out of poverty. China now under Xi is much richer and more confident, has fewer people in decision making authority who personally suffered from Mao era radicalism, and is backsliding to a more strident nationalism and ideological conformity.
What a powerful film. I still remember seeing this at 18 years old in one of the big cinerama type movie theaters in San Diego in '87. Hopefully the 4K disc is great.
@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl The film was (at least in part) based on Pu Yi's autobiography. If you read that, and assume that it is true as best Pu Yi recalled, there are notable differences in the film.
Imagine if Heinrich Himmler didn't activate his cyanide pill in time before the Allies could take him to heavy trial, since some of SS prisoners were able to recognize him in the prison camp.
I bet you think you were clever but these are all collaborators with the Japanese government. They are even wearing the uniform of the Japanese army with the puppet government's five color star. Its safe to say that every one of these people deserved it and aren't there for having a different political opinion or owning too much land.
@@touko_nanami "Its safe to say that every one of these people deserved it and aren't there for having a different political opinion or owning too much land" Even though plenty of people who didn't "deserve it" were treated in a similar manner for having a different political opinion or owning too much land.
This is what George C. Marshall indifferently left China with - reds - Marshall couldn't wait to get back to Europe after all he never saw a single day of combat and had a personal contempt for Chang - I gave you Mao right George?
@@rusoviettovarich9221 not on the Sherman tank it's not. Part of the reason it gets a bum rap is it wasn't used properly at first (overconfident Americans, British overloaded it with internal ammo). Then it was briefly outmatched by German tanks because of the way cycles of design / production / transport / training etc work. Belton Cooper's book is a classic example of selection / survivor bias because all he saw was damaged or wrecked Shermans. The reliability and fuel efficiency factor gets ignored too. GI's aren't going to gripe about unreliability since they're safe waiting around for it to get fixed but a broken down tank is effectively useless or by being a net drain on resources a victory for the enemy. So the much-ballyhooed German tanks may have had great armor but were useless as weapons of war when they broke down or ran out of fuel, as they constantly did. Can't win a war that way. Shermans also drastically reduced infantry casualties when used in a support role, so you have to look at the net gain in manpower, not just look at tanker losses. See czcams.com/video/Bxac3-aVVKQ/video.html And you just can't over-emphasize the importance of the USA's rigorous and thorough testing to make sure the tanks just plain worked, including in challenging conditions. Nobody else did it like the Americans and the results showed it. Alno again the USA had to haul everything it used across an ocean so it had to go to extreme lengths to plan for logistics. The resulting successes are drastically under-appreciated. See czcams.com/video/TwIlrAosYiM/video.html for more.
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Slashed his wrists, submerged them in water. An ancient method of s*icide, very efficient as the hot water opens the v*ins wider and accelerates the process.
He did, but then, after showing a flashback from his early childhood the movie gets back to action and a guard saves him. I recommend you to watch this movie, Bertolucci is really good at doing his movies emotional :)
Puyi, failed emperor and Japanese collaborator. In the end he sold out his country for a puppet throne. He lost the divine right to rule the moment the 1911 Revolution took off.
@@jessieblossom3874 I just cant with the stupid. China has been known for its symbolic actions especially in the 20th century. You should research more
Have you actually read the Biography book written by the Last Emperor himself? The real Puyi stated he tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrist in the sink at the train station. The only reason he survived is because the cuts were not deep enough and he was found in time. Obviously you're the STUPID one, who should read more!
@@olivercuenca4109 Still the country was called the USSR, not Russia in 1922-1991, and all its international treaties including that of defining borders with respective counties were concluded and observed on behalf of the USSR and not some part or republic of the USSR, so calling it Chinese-Russian border is technically incorrect. There actually was not such a subject of international law like "Russia" during the period. How the parts of the country were called internally is irrelevant in regard of international relations. Besides the Soviet-Chinese border included also the segments that are now Kazakh-Chinese, Tajik-Chinese and Kirgiz-Chinese borders. During the Soviet era these segments along with modern Russian-Chinese border constituted the unified line of Soviet-Chinese border. And by the way, that very border was guarded as a Soviet border (not some Kazakh border or Russian border) by the Soviet army, not Russian army or Ukrainian army or Kazakh army or other nonsense.
@@grandongplb At least under the Nazis I could own property and not starve. Communism killed over 100 million people in the last century. Far more than fascism.
@@espada9 You could own land in Manchuria and Korea under Japanese occupation and live under their fascist-adjecent puppet government. They were more anti-communist than you and would have enjoyed using you to conduct medical experiments and chemical warfare testing. Whether the regime was Fascist or Communist, you still would have died regardless, but at least you wouldn't have to worry about socialist policies targeting the rich, ruining the economy, and making you slowly starve from famine.
@@jonathanbirch2022 That depends, Capitalists generally tend not to be authoritarian as giving the state absolute power to enforce its will on the population and having an unrestricted free market is contradictory. And since Communism only seems to work with authoritarianism and is justified most of the time by its supporters, it'd make sense why someone despises Communists more than Capitalists.
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It is so terrible what the Communists did to Emperor Puyi. Puyi was merely proud of being Manchu and sought independence and freedom for his people. Free of Chinese control.
I actually cant imagine being this retarded, nobody in Manchuria wanted independence it was an artificial state made by the Japanese to advance their own interests, they did not give a flying fuck about anyone in Manchuria as evidenced by the fact they used them as lab rats in biological weapons tests.
This shows how pathetic these empires during their last days. How could an emperor with a government were not able even to raise an army to crush a rebellion or invasion. Same also with the fall of western roman empire before the abdication of the last emperor. Really pathetic. These are no small countries... they cant even raise an army of 50,000 to 100,000 with such a land area?
'Emperor with a government' try actually researching what you're talking about - there was no such imperial state at the time, it was the KMT vs. Maoists. The large imperial government had already fallen to many internal rebellions by warlords. You can handle 1 rebellion if you try hard enough, you cannot handle 5 or 6 at the same time.
This movies is based on two books written by supporting characters in the movie. The first is the account of his youth written by his Scottish tutor, a Puyi loyalist who flew the Manchukuo flag at his lake house in Scotland until his death.
The other was his jailer. The governor that oversaw his imprisonment for 10 years. He grew up in Manchuria and supported the emperor until his family were killed by the Japanese and he joined the Communist resistance. He saw Puyi as a war criminal at first but over time grew sympathetic to him. After he was purged during the Cultural Revolution he escaped to Hong Kong and wrote a book describing Puyi as a tragic character.
Thank you for posting this. The tutor was Reginald Johnson. According to the English Wikipedia article on the film, the governor of the prison was Jin Yuan. What was the name of his book? Is it available in English?
The film is also based on Pu Yi's autobiography. Apparently, Bertolucci read it before embarking on the film.
You forgot about one more book, the most important one - Pu Yi's memoirs written after his release from re-education camp
@johnyricco1220
Edward Behr has also written an excellent book called 'The Last Emperor'
This scene takes a lot of dramatic license. Puyi was handed over in August 1950, it was not freezing cold. He had been living in a luxury hotel in Russia with his servants. He had expected to be treated badly when he was delivered to China, but was surprised the officials meeting him offered him tea and food.
A lot of the film is artistic licence. In one sense it is disappointing, but then again the film is excellent.
It is a movie
Puyi wasn't living in a hotel in Russia. He was in Russian prison after he was caught by the Soviet in Manchuria. Had the Nationalist Party aka Kuomintang defeat the CCP instead, Puyi would have died in Russian prison since the Soviet refused to hand him over to Kuomintang and if he was send back to China, he would have been executed.
we are propagandized so thoroughly...
@@player2-lightwater914 Not so. Puyi was never at a gulag in Russia. He was housed at two places. First a sanatorium in Chita. This was a mineral springs resort. Puyi was found of this place. He had good food and a team of doctors, and could even go for walks outside. He was so well treated he thought Stalin would send him into exile in the West.
Later he was sent to Khabrovsk. There he was under house arrest in a mansion with his servants. The place is a tourist attraction now, known as the Khabrovsk Imperial Palace due to the association with its most famous occupant.
This scene is scary to say the least
the dark somewhat dystopian backround
the stressful backround music
gives you the sense of hopelessness and makes you feel glad that you're not among those prisoners
Bernardo Bertolucci was a genious
I know it’s so eerie and really puts you in the scene
Being how the Japanese Imperial Government treated the Chinese people, I can’t say I’d blame the communists for their treatment of these prisoners
@@OfficialRibbitNixon Well yes indeed but still no one would want to be in that situation
The mechanized world of communism.
Really interesting how 38 years after his abdication, some people still follow the imperial tradition and kowtow before Puyi
He was Emperor of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945 as well as China and as this is in Manchuria, those people were likely supporters of his puppet regime.
@@cobbler9113 Ah yes quite possibly since they are all political and war prisonners
@@cobbler9113
is not like they are kow towing to the puppet government. They were kow towing as a follower
A lot of people probably wanted the monarchy back
Hard to break 2000 year old tradition tradition
The best movie of all time, there are no good nor bad charactercs everyone is grey like in reality, great pictures and scenography of The Forbidden City and awesome story of transformation from what looks like medieval times at the beggining to modernity at the end. To me puyi was always just an example of transformation of China, hence the movie is about the country itself, story of China is seen through puyi
No good or bad characters? Did we watch the same film?
Communists are all bad.
@@lepetitchat123 he probably meant evil
@ Historia mowi o sobie - I agree. It truly is an overlooked masterpiece. It's a movie I have purchased and watched many times.
John Lone should have been nominated for an Oscar.
Yeah but Hollywood wasn't that nice to Asians back then
@@moseslee9485 Still not nice today
Didn't the movie with every other Oscar that year?
@@nowhereman6019 In every category it was nominated in. No nomination for John Lone.
Puyi, for good or for bad will always leave a lasting memory in Chinese history. What a time in history to take the thrown of emperor at just 2 years old.
i saw this movie few years after his debut and I still wonder how a great and old institution like imperial china crumbled so qhickly.probably the stubborn refuse to adeguate the monarchy to modernity let open way to communists to win people's approval and end the empire.
Its also the end of chinese dynastic system from very long century
Forgive me but please note that "thrown" in the context, should be "throne". That's English for you.
Our man Puyi tried to do a Hannah Baker in this scene. In all seriousness, Puyi had a shit life. Manipulated by the majority of those he encountered. Every person that was a good influence on him was taken away from him.
The passing of time in the film is a great example of how drastically the world changed in the 20th century, and how the Emperor was the last final link to a pre-industralized society in a way.
This movie is a national treasure. I want to see this again on cinemas
I watch this movie a 20th time still
The best movies of all time
Fantastic film I watched this clip and bought the film shortly after I hadn't seen it years and was completely engrossed that night while watching it.
This movie was a masterpiece
This movie could not be made today.
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@@trenttrip6205 China has such a grip on Hollywood, it would never allow a movie that puts the Chinese Communist Party in a bad light.
@@IrishCarney idk, Hollywood certainly tailors to China today but The Last Emperor kind of a pioneer in that regard, it wasnt a Hollywood film, first of all, it was independently produced by a British filmmaker, who didn’t even start production until the PRC approved it, and they were pretty heavily involved in the production, most of the extras were members of the People’s Liberation Army
@@trenttrip6205 Different era. China then was very conscious of how bad the Mao era was and wanted to open up to the world to help climb out of poverty. China now under Xi is much richer and more confident, has fewer people in decision making authority who personally suffered from Mao era radicalism, and is backsliding to a more strident nationalism and ideological conformity.
@@IrishCarney Agreed!
This film transcends national identities by putting an unique piece of history of China onto the screen and into western sphere.
Greatest film ever made and greatest channel name! Long live d'Annunzio!!!
D'Annunzio was a fraud.
Best actor we will miss .
I love a great film like that.
What a powerful film. I still remember seeing this at 18 years old in one of the big cinerama type movie theaters in San Diego in '87.
Hopefully the 4K disc is great.
Great Movie
Not 100% accurate though
@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl The film was (at least in part) based on Pu Yi's autobiography. If you read that, and assume that it is true as best Pu Yi recalled, there are notable differences in the film.
1:44 When you know your'e screwed
It's THE PEOPLE POWER
@@cyberpunk2978 And it's failed.
@@Apelles42069 china is still around today is it not? mao was a hero.
@@Apelles42069 cope and seethe western rodent
@@VirtuousLiam So very easy to draw out dehumanization from red fascists.
1:51 lol this guy looks more puyi than the puyi's actor
you are absolutly right!
@@welasasih1888 rocking the glorious manchu horseface
indonesian president since 2014, mr joko will be like him if his that old.
@@welasasih1888 he already does
This movie is a good one.
Excellent
Imagine if Heinrich Himmler didn't activate his cyanide pill in time before the Allies could take him to heavy trial, since some of SS prisoners were able to recognize him in the prison camp.
That's how Santa Anna was captured in Texas also.
中国、日本・満州……改めてもう一度映画を観て、考えをじっくり巡らしたいですね。
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I bet you think you were clever but these are all collaborators with the Japanese government. They are even wearing the uniform of the Japanese army with the puppet government's five color star. Its safe to say that every one of these people deserved it and aren't there for having a different political opinion or owning too much land.
@@touko_nanami lol
@@touko_nanami "Its safe to say that every one of these people deserved it and aren't there for having a different political opinion or owning too much land"
Even though plenty of people who didn't "deserve it" were treated in a similar manner for having a different political opinion or owning too much land.
2:18 everyone else's like "THAT's the Emperor?!"
How cold it was
This is what George C. Marshall indifferently left China with - reds - Marshall couldn't wait to get back to Europe after all he never saw a single day of combat and had a personal contempt for Chang - I gave you Mao right George?
@Charles Bue read amigo - it's long but my gosh loaded with facts - amzn.to/37k0Hi8
@@rusoviettovarich9221 not on the Sherman tank it's not. Part of the reason it gets a bum rap is it wasn't used properly at first (overconfident Americans, British overloaded it with internal ammo). Then it was briefly outmatched by German tanks because of the way cycles of design / production / transport / training etc work. Belton Cooper's book is a classic example of selection / survivor bias because all he saw was damaged or wrecked Shermans. The reliability and fuel efficiency factor gets ignored too. GI's aren't going to gripe about unreliability since they're safe waiting around for it to get fixed but a broken down tank is effectively useless or by being a net drain on resources a victory for the enemy. So the much-ballyhooed German tanks may have had great armor but were useless as weapons of war when they broke down or ran out of fuel, as they constantly did. Can't win a war that way. Shermans also drastically reduced infantry casualties when used in a support role, so you have to look at the net gain in manpower, not just look at tanker losses. See czcams.com/video/Bxac3-aVVKQ/video.html And you just can't over-emphasize the importance of the USA's rigorous and thorough testing to make sure the tanks just plain worked, including in challenging conditions. Nobody else did it like the Americans and the results showed it. Alno again the USA had to haul everything it used across an ocean so it had to go to extreme lengths to plan for logistics. The resulting successes are drastically under-appreciated. See czcams.com/video/TwIlrAosYiM/video.html for more.
@@IrishCarney I didn't write that blistering critique of Marshall. Marshall was a putz
@@rusoviettovarich9221 But you linked to it approvingly. And I confined my remarks to its claims about the Sherman tank.
@@IrishCarney Got it -
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Nais
An Emperor should at least be given the treatment that Napoleon received.
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is there any ushanka in manchuria
How about... sino soviet border war?
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What’s the name of the movie
why is he bleeding at the end?
Slashed his wrists, submerged them in water. An ancient method of s*icide, very efficient as the hot water opens the v*ins wider and accelerates the process.
He tried slashing his own wrists to kill himself
what if puyi learn from alexander Kolchak
Did he slit his wrists?
He did, but then, after showing a flashback from his early childhood the movie gets back to action and a guard saves him. I recommend you to watch this movie, Bertolucci is really good at doing his movies emotional :)
Very sad.
Puyi, failed emperor and Japanese collaborator. In the end he sold out his country for a puppet throne. He lost the divine right to rule the moment the 1911 Revolution took off.
Dude didn’t really have much of a choice / I’d lay the real blame on Cixi and the contemporary bureaucrats at the time.
There’s no such thing as a divine right to rule
why is there blood right at the end in the sink?
because he has slit his wrists
Its symbolic he is trying to wash his hands of blood after learning about the mass genocide he was apart of
No, it's because he tried to commit suicide by cutting his wrist. Duh.
@@jessieblossom3874 I just cant with the stupid. China has been known for its symbolic actions especially in the 20th century. You should research more
Have you actually read the Biography book written by the Last Emperor himself? The real Puyi stated he tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrist in the sink at the train station. The only reason he survived is because the cuts were not deep enough and he was found in time. Obviously you're the STUPID one, who should read more!
1:50
indonesian president since 2014, joko widodo will be look like him if his that old.
Is it some parallel universe of 1950? The border is Chinese-Soviet, not Chinese-Russian.
Russia was a constituent Republic of the Soviet Union. It still existed throughout the USSR period.
@@olivercuenca4109 Still the country was called the USSR, not Russia in 1922-1991, and all its international treaties including that of defining borders with respective counties were concluded and observed on behalf of the USSR and not some part or republic of the USSR, so calling it Chinese-Russian border is technically incorrect. There actually was not such a subject of international law like "Russia" during the period. How the parts of the country were called internally is irrelevant in regard of international relations. Besides the Soviet-Chinese border included also the segments that are now Kazakh-Chinese, Tajik-Chinese and Kirgiz-Chinese borders. During the Soviet era these segments along with modern Russian-Chinese border constituted the unified line of Soviet-Chinese border. And by the way, that very border was guarded as a Soviet border (not some Kazakh border or Russian border) by the Soviet army, not Russian army or Ukrainian army or Kazakh army or other nonsense.
Russia and Soviet Union are often used interchangeably.
ho shit man
There is no group on earth I despise more than communists.
Errrrr....what about the nazi?
@@grandongplb At least under the Nazis I could own property and not starve. Communism killed over 100 million people in the last century. Far more than fascism.
@@espada9 You could own land in Manchuria and Korea under Japanese occupation and live under their fascist-adjecent puppet government.
They were more anti-communist than you and would have enjoyed using you to conduct medical experiments and chemical warfare testing.
Whether the regime was Fascist or Communist, you still would have died regardless, but at least you wouldn't have to worry about socialist policies targeting the rich, ruining the economy, and making you slowly starve from famine.
What about Capitalists
@@jonathanbirch2022 That depends, Capitalists generally tend not to be authoritarian as giving the state absolute power to enforce its will on the population and having an unrestricted free market is contradictory.
And since Communism only seems to work with authoritarianism and is justified most of the time by its supporters, it'd make sense why someone despises Communists more than Capitalists.
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@@trenttrip6205 .. oh I’m sorry ... I didn’t realise this was a popularity contest .. 😂🤣😅
@@mashbury 😂
Good to know everyone in Manchuria speaks English
Duh 🙄
Still a great film.
It is so terrible what the Communists did to Emperor Puyi. Puyi was merely proud of being Manchu and sought independence and freedom for his people. Free of Chinese control.
I actually cant imagine being this retarded, nobody in Manchuria wanted independence it was an artificial state made by the Japanese to advance their own interests, they did not give a flying fuck about anyone in Manchuria as evidenced by the fact they used them as lab rats in biological weapons tests.
What they did was a deeply humane thing. They made him a free man - the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo cannot claim to have done the same.
Give them credit. At least they spared him, unlike the Romanovs and their fate at the hands of the Bolsheviks
Well the Manchu have ruled over whole china with the Qing dynasty. And have the han Chinese forbidden many cultural things
@@EternalEmperorofZakuulThe Romanovs were responsible for killing thousands, if not millions of their own people. They got what was coming to them.
This shows how pathetic these empires during their last days.
How could an emperor with a government were not able even to raise an army to crush a rebellion or invasion.
Same also with the fall of western roman empire before the abdication of the last emperor.
Really pathetic. These are no small countries... they cant even raise an army of 50,000 to 100,000 with such a land area?
...
Delbert Baron Lee you really don't know much about 19-20th Century china do you?
'Emperor with a government' try actually researching what you're talking about - there was no such imperial state at the time, it was the KMT vs. Maoists. The large imperial government had already fallen to many internal rebellions by warlords. You can handle 1 rebellion if you try hard enough, you cannot handle 5 or 6 at the same time.
You may want to read up on China’s history leading up to this. To make a very long story short… China was screwed
Even when he was emperor. He was a child who was basically a figurehead.