The Last Emperor script

The war criminals will proceed in orderly fashion to the main waiting room and await instructions

No talking! Obey the guards!

War criminals must proceed to the waiting room!

Those caught talking will be severely punished!

The emperor!

Your majesty Your majesty Your majesty

What do they think they are doing? Stop! It is dangerous!

Go back, Go back Go!

Are you mad?! They could kill us all!

Go! Go!

Open the door!! Open the door!!

Open the door!! Open the door!!

Mama!

By the command of Her lmperial Majesty, also call, the compassionate,

and the Blessed, the Respectful and the Long-Living, the Empress Dowager commands

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, son of Prince Chun,

shall be transferred immediately to the Forbidden City and will remain in the great within,

awaiting Her Majesty's decision respect this!

Ar Mo I am giving your my son My son is your son!

Quick! Quick!

I want to go home!

Look, look at all the camels Unlook at the Forbidden City!

Give him to me

Ar Mo!

Pu Yi, come here

How small you are Are you afraid of me? Everyone is

I am the Grand Empress Dowager

And I have lived here for a long, long time

And they call me the old Buddha

This is Peony Do you like her?

Men, you know, are not allowed in the Forbidden City after dark

Even little men like you!

The only man who can live here is the Emperor

But the Emperor is on high, riding the dragon, now!

He died today!

Longevity

These other men, they're not real men They're all eunuchs

And now, they're all wait for me to die

That is why they're putting my bed in the middle of the room, under the black pearl

Little Pu Yi, I have decide that you will be the new Lord of Ten-Thousand years

You will be the Son of Heaven

Are we going home, Papa?

Sssh! sssh! sssh! It will soon be over

Look!

Look!

Papa Cricket!

Cricket! Cricket! Where's the cricket?!

Ahh, he is my friend, Your Majesty Safe and warm under my arm

Kept me company on the long journey here

Ahh, see? He is kowtowing to Your Majesty

Now, he can be the Emperor's Cricket!

Never come in here

His soup is getting cold!

Get out here!

Where am l?

In the people's Republic of China

Why did you stop me?

You are a criminals! You must be judged?

I'm the lord of 10,000 years

Go

If you really wanted to died, you would have succeeded

You'll kill me anyway

Whatever happens you'll be kept a life until you have been judged

You Majesty, this is the Forbidden City

Ah, look! This little one is Your Majesty's bedroom This is where we are

Am I going home, today?!

Not today, not yet A-And here, look

This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where Your Majesty was crowned

I give Your Majesty the Gate of Marshall Valor

I give you the maju-gate the...gate! /Yes

Yes And the Palace with he Loudest Heaven...and...yes

Your Majesty, your lmperial bath is ready!

I don't like baths! I don't like baths! I don't like baths!

No beam curd today and no meat!

Is it true I can do anything I want?

Of course, Your Majesty!

Anything you want You are the Lord of Ten Thousand Years

Oh!! Oh! Oh!, no! Not in my face! Oh! Oh, no! No!

I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven!

Yes! Oh, yes! /l am the Son of Heaven!

Ar Mo! I want to go home! I want to go home, I want to go home!

I want to go home, Ar Mo! I want to go home

Once upon a time, there was a great tree and a great wind

The tree and the wind were always fighting

But when the wind came back,

it was angrier and stronger then ever

Father

My lade, she is new nurse

This is a good breast milk

Hey! come on, hurry!

And how he became my child

I repeat

Prisoners going to their cells will walk with their heads bowed Keep your eyes on the ground!

No looking forward or to the side!

The guards will give you directions and tell you when to turn!

Eye's down! move!

Pu Chieh

Your guest is waiting to meet you You Majesty

Also your mother has arrived

You have not seen your mother for many years Your Majesty

He is so small!

He is young, Your Majesty

Go Go!

The Emperor's brother His Excellency, Pu Chieh

Ar Mo

Stay with me

How is the health of His Majesty's mother?

It is better, thank you How much His majesty has grown!

My mother has not seen me for seven years!

Do you remember my face?

No!

The night they came with the horses, I knew it would be like this

My brother sees you everyday!

Pu Chieh is very excited to meet you He often talks about you

We are all very proud of you

The kite

He chose this for you

Papa!

Some of my clothes, I need boxes

This is lmperial tiva-row

I keep some in the big box

What is that?

My medicines

-Heals for rectifying vapors -No, I chamber part

These are my birds

That is my heater and this is my camel

They're turning away!

Of course! Ordinary people are not allowed to look at the Emperor!

I am too important

Is it true that you can do whatever you want?

Of course, I can If I am naughty, someone else is punished One of them!

Stop!

The Emperor will walk

I have never met other children Are they all like you?

I've got three sisters and two friends

If you come to our house, you can play with us

The Emperor never leaves the Palace

We play games together!

I know a game too! Run!

The ones in the boat are the high consorts /High consorts?

The wives of the emperor before me

They say they're my mother, but they're not! They're not!

We asked for the books, so prisoners will have to pass this round all, read it loud

The sooner you begin to learn better This is school

History of the new popular democracy

I see book Page 84, 85

In February 1912

2,000 years of imperial ruled came to an end with abucation of Manchoo Dynasty

And it became republic

And it the year of the Rat

Are you interested in ancient history?

They say it's a prison

Real prison

I told you start reading

You there, read loud

According

According

According to the treaty between the empire and the first republic,

the emperor's taitou was retained and not abolished.

He would retain his palaces and he paid an annual subsidies of four million dollars.

The republic also guaranteed to protect the imperial tombs in perpetuity

in return the dynasty surrendered forever it's right to rule the country.

Man, his nature originally good

Let us see what the Emperor has done

Your Majesty will do it again 5 times

5 times?

10 times

Why are you wearing that? You are not allowed to wear yellow!

But this is ordinary yellow

It is lmperial yellow!

No, it is not!

We say it is! Only the Emperor can wear that yellow! Take it off!

No!

Take it off!

No! And you're not the Emperor anymore!

There is a new Emperor now!

He has cut off his queue, and instead of a camel, he has got a car!

What did you say?

You're not the Emperor!

Liar!

You're not the Emperor anymore!

Liar! Liar!

You're not the...

Liar!

You're not the Emperor! /How dare you!

Calm yourselves! Oh!

You're not the Emperor!

How dare you!

No! Your Majesty! Calm yourselves!

Am I the Emperor or not?

Your Majesty will always be the Emperor

You see?

Prove it!

Big foot, drink it! Go on, drink the green ink

I will show you!

See? That is a car! He is the President of the Republic

Why is this wall here, Lord Chamberlain?

It is just a wall, Your Majesty Nothing has changed

You are lying

Hight Tutor, am I still the Emperor?

You will always be the Emperor inside the Forbidden City, but not outside

I do not understand

Outside China is now a republic, with a president

Where is Ar Mo? Ar Mo?

You are all liars!!

Let me say "good-bye"!

Hurry! Hurry!

He's my child! Ah!

Ar Mo?! Ar Mo?

I don't understand

I don't understand

Your Majesty is a big boy, now

He can't have a wet nurse anymore

It's much better like this Much healthier

But she is not my wet nurse

She is my butterfly

Ar Mo!!! Ar Mo!!

Ar Mo!!! Ar Mo!!

Ar Mo!!! Ar Mo!!

This is the detention center of the Fushun Bureau of public security

And I am the governor!

During the war, this was a Japanese prison

Many of you may remember it

Because you worked with the Japanese,

you were responsible for building it and you filled it with innocent people

How could this happen?!

Why did you betray your country?!

What turned you into war criminals?

We believe that men are born good!

We believe that the only way to change is to discover the truth and look at it in the face

That is why you are here

You will begin by writing the story of your lives and by confessing your crimes

Your salvation will lie entirely the attitude you take!

I advise you to be frank and sincere, otherwise things can still go very badly for you

You have learned that song very quickly

That is good beginning

I't is snowing

We must take to the same story of they will return our words against

After a few years, the tiny republic had become as corrupt as the old emperor

It fell quickly into the hands of ambitions generals and corrupt bureaucrats

The era of the warlords had begun By May, 1919 when lreceived my appointment

China was in turmoil

China awake

Did you know they now selling electro votes all the stock market

Nothing has changed with the republic either inside or outside the Forbidden City

-Except for the bicycles -The students are angry

But what can they do except shout

The shops are closing

Also they are

Maybe we'll be late after all

Shall we take a short cut?

Yes /Use our feets

Remember you're one of the first foreigners within the official post of the Forbidden City since Marco Polo.

It makes me very nervous.

The enemy.

Is there a dagger in my back?

Not yet

My friend, it is not easy to forgive a foreign devil who knows Confucius better than they do.

And grows the finest pianism in Peking!

May the new tutor present himself!

Your lmperial Highness, the new tutor

The emperor is honor to welcome his tutor

Your tutor is honor to have been chosen, your Majesty

One more time

Dear lmperial Highness, Mr Reginald Fleming Johnston

How do you do, Mr, Johnston?

How do you do, Your Majesty?

Now we will go to school

Please begin the lesson

Your Majesty, in my country, it would be usual to begin with some kind of an examination

The Emperor can't be examined

Well, that may have to change

But first, Your Majesty might like to ask me some questions

Where are your ancestors buried?

In Scotland, Your Majesty

But then, where's your skirt?

In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not?

No, Your Majesty Scotsmen do not wear skirts, they wear kilts

Kilts

Kilts A matter of words, perhaps, but words are important

Why are words important?

If you can't say what you mean, Your majesty, you will never mean what you say

And a gentleman should always means what he says

Ah yes! "a gentleman" Are you a gentleman?

I would like to be a gentleman, Your Majesty I try to be

I'm not a gentleman I'm not allowed to say what I mean

They are always telling me what to say

Your Majesty is still very young

I thought he might like to see some English and American magazines

I have just received them

I know that you know that l know that you know that,

that is a dialog between Confucius and Chuang Tzu

Concerning respect, Your Majesty

Who is this "George Washington"?

A famous American, Your majesty

A revolutionary General The first American President

Ah! Like Mr, Lenin in Russia?

Not quite

Dose he have a car?

He lived a long time ago, Your Majesty

I want a car

I think your mouse is trying to escape, Your Majesty

Please do not tell anyone about my mouse

The lesson is finished

Our official taster's a brave men

Many of my ancestors have been poisoned, you know

Does Your Majesty have lunch like this everyday?

Oh, yes! Every day! Like theater!

I don't know why It has always been like that

This is my royal food

Your majesty! ...one hundred year eggs

Snake bow

Angel's hair

Garlic spark, steamed turtle, nut nipples...

This is danger of poisoning pots

That food comes directly from the high consorts

That taste had already tried them

It always arrives a-bit cold

How do they kill emperors in the West?

The Austrian emperor was shot, was he not?

No, but his nephew was assassinated before the Great War

But the Russian emperor had been shot He was called the Tsar

Yes

He took lots of our land in Manchuria

I'm a Manchrian Even after the republic, it's still country

The-uh...secret, Your Majesty, is emerging again

Is something the matter, Your Majesty?

Something is happening

Silence, tell them to be quite

Silence

Silence

What is happening, Mr, johnston?

Uh nothing is happening... /Quiet!

On my way here, Your Majesty, we were held up by students from the university

They were protesting against the republican government

because it has agreed to give away Chinese territory to Japan

It is true, Mr, Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads chopped off?

It is true, Your Majesty Many heads have been chopped off

It does stop them thinking

It is time for the Emperor's rest

The students are right to be angry

I am angry!

But I am not allowed to leave the Forbidden City

I want to go out, Mr, Johnston!

My lord!

I want to see the City of sounds!

The Emperor awards you with the order of the Ruby Hat Button,

and with the right to be carried in your own chair, with four bearers

The last Emperor died won the same night

As Emperor stawward the night the time I was brought to the forbidden city

When I was three

The eunuchs think he was murdered but who cared him

And why?

And who will kill me?

The chair, your excellency.

The traditional gift to eunuch...

Many thanks Be greatful

-lf it is an official practice... -Always sir, always sir.

Which case I would like an official receipt.

Stop!

One, two,

Three, four, five...

Emperor extends his apologies.

Please, tell the emperor that there is no offence.

The Emperor was offended.

But even the bicycle was viewed with suspicions in the forbidden city.

My present to the emperor lead to a lot of trouble.

Change about!

I hope the Emperor has not forgotten that this is the day for his math class?

For Your Majesty!

My doctor says, "Bicycles are bad for you"

Bad for you, nonsense!

How does it work?

Oh, it's simple

Head up and eyes forward! As in math!

My mother is dead, is she not?

Yes, Your Majesty

I'm profoundly sorry!

I'm not

She killed herself

She swallowed the ball of opium

I'm going to see her, and my brother

Open the door Open the door

Open the door

Where is it?

Fallen devil and fallen machine Trouble! Nothing but trouble!

Look where you lead him! And you are an old, cruel, ignorant man

The boy's mother is dead, and he's not even allowed to see her!

I want to go home!!

I want to go home!!

Stop it, stay where you are!!

I want to go home!!

Stop it, stay where you are!!

You fool!! Stay there!!

Chang!

Hunchback, Bigfoot!

Sir? Give me your hand, sir Give me your hand, sir!

Can you not see?

Look at my left ear, please, sir

Thank you, and my right Thank you

Would you follow my finger, please, sir

Just the eyes not the head

Well it's perfectly simple, Johnson The emperor needs spectacles

Like Harold Lloyd!

lmpossible! An emperor does not wear spectacles!

That can't be allowed!

Time have changed, Your Highnesses!

If His Majesty doesn't get spectacles, Johnston, he could lose his sight

Now please, could you show me the way out of here?

Your Majesty

If the Emperor does not get spectacles, I will resign

Unfortunately, our decision is final

And unfortunately, what I have to say will be published in every newspaper in China

What do you have to say, Mr, Johnston?

The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own place since the day

that he was crowned and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated

But now he's growing up He may wonder why he is the only person in China

who may not walk out of his own front door

I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on earth

It would be conveniently sad if he becomes blind

Blind, Mr, Johnston?

To the expense, Your Excellency To the cost of maintaining one thousand two hundred eunuchs,

three hundred and fifty ladies-in-waiting

and one hundred and eight-five cooks to buying one hundred

and twenty sable furs a month and three thousand chickens a week

To the fast that eight hundred and forty guards and employees of the household department,

plus one Lord Chamberlain, care only about one thing!

Filling their own rice bowls!

You are very good at accounts, Mr, Johnston!

The Emperor may have abdicated,

but he is still a symbol of great importance to many people

If I did not agree with that, I would not be here

And some of us believe that one day soon, he may be more than a symbol

The spectacles are a detail

What do you really want, Mr, Johnston?

Ah-Just the spectacles

The Princess Wan Jung, Your Majesty Seventeen years old

Princess Wu Chang, fifteen years old

The princess De Li, Your Majesty And the Princess Fung Ying

The Princess Wang-ching

The Princess Shi-lean Sixteen years old

Who is this?

Princess Wen Hsiu, twelve years old

She has got a funny face

Not just one wife One empress and one secondary consort

Two wives?

But who do you choose to be the Empress?

They chose her!

She's very old, Johnston! She's seventeen!

That's not so old, Your Majesty What does she look like?

Old fashion!

I want a modern wife, Johnston, who speaks English and French!

And who can dance the quickstep!

Johnston!!

Sir!

I'm going to escape, Johnston

I've got a suitcase, and a ticket to England

I'm going to Oxford University

Your Majesty, if you get married you will become the master of your own house

A wedding might be a more practical way to escape

I suppose she's on her way Ba-unr

It will be all right They do everything for you

Why did you never get married, Johnston?

Your Mongolian cousin Prince Demchukedamgruv has sent you twelve racing camels...

Plus this

On behalf of Manchuria.

A lump of coal.

Manchuria...

-The secondary consort welcomes the Empress -The Empress greets the secondary consort

You are doing everything very well

Thank you I rehearsed many times

What is His Majesty thinking?

I was thinking, if I was the real emperor, I would become the ruler of China now

And what would the Emperor do, if he could really rule?

I would change everything Even the way we get married

Is the Emperor against arranged marriages?

It is humiliating not to choose whom you marry!

Even I was not allowed to choose

And yet westerners might be amazed

how much happiness can come from arranged marriages.

That is what old fashion women say, like the high consorts.

In another year or two His Majesty will be taller than me

Is it true the Emperor has a suitcase under his bed and is going to Oxford?

Will the Emperor take Wan Jung with him?

Perhaps he would like to see my face before he decides

Yes, the Emperor would like to see the face of the Empress

It is the Emperor who must remove the kait'ou

I also had a tutor like Mr, Johnston

Miss Windsor She's American

Miss Windsor taught me how to do the dance of the quickstep

Does the Emperor know hoe to do the quickstep?

Will you teach me?

Leave us! Leave us!

If Your Majesty thinks it is old fashioned to make the rain and the wind with a stranger,

we can be like a modern couple, to begin with

A modern couple?

Good night

Good night

You must come to Oxford with me

I like him! I'm sure I'm going to like him!

And he will grow up!

Eyes down!

Report your arrival!

Prisoner nine-eight-one reporting

Louder!!

Prisoner nine-eight-one reporting

Open the door!

Close the door!

Sit down!

Name?!

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

Write it!

Now read that aloud!

Forgiving to those who confesses, severeness to those who resists,

Redemption to those who gain merits.

Now than, there are two types of confession

We call them toothpaste and water tap

The toothpaste prisoner needs to be squeezed every now and then or else he forgets, to keep confessing

The water tap man needs one good hard twist before he starts

But them everything comes out

Now, you're an intelligent person I'm sure you understand me

Good then we will begin

Why do you think you are in here, nine-eight-one?

I'm accused of being a traitor a collaborate and a counter-revolutionary

It's not an accusation!!

You are a traitor, you are a collaborator and you're a counter-revolutionary!

Did you write this? And you call it a confession?

This is noting but a list of dates! A child's fairy tale!

What do you want me to confess?

You know what you did and what others did

So why don't you volunteer the information?

I don't understand

We don't tell people what to confess We already know everything about you

l...

Go on

I wanted reforms

What did you what to reform?

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Chang, you have a house out of the forbidden city Do you not?

Yes, Your Majesty

It has 20 rooms, doesn't it?

And you also have houses

Oh, we all do, your majesty.

I recently learned that many pieces from the imperial collections are on sale

in the antic shops of Peking Is that true, Cheng?

-Would you do me a favour, Wen shu? -Of course.

Stop growing

The Forbidden City is like a theater without an audience.

The audience left long ago when China became a republic.

Cut off my queue

Your majesty! Please!

It's heavy!

The emperor before me was murdered because he wanted to reform the empire

Is that not so, Mr, Johnston?

Yes, Your Majesty Probably

Well, let us see if they will kill me for reforming the Forbidden City

Lord Chamberlain! I'm appointing Mr, Johnston's friend,

the poet and scholar, Chin Hsiao Hsiu, to be the new Lord Chamberlain

I want him to supervise a detailed inventory of the imperial storerooms!

So that we can learn exactly how much has been stolen!

Can I sleep here? I'm frightened

You're brave Are you not frightened?

I'm excited I don't want to escape anymore

I want to rule

Kiss me

Can I stay with you as well?

Get in get in

I used to play a game with the eunuchs

Trying to guess who is who

Now I can't see you!

Jung! Wan Jung? When Hsiu?

Come underneath the sheet with us

Your Majesty! The storeroom's on fire, Your Majesty!

Tian xiao shu, did you not write a poem about a spider who gets caught in his own web?

I did not know your majesty had read my poetry, I'm very honored.

I am the spider

The eunuchs set fire to this place to stop me of knowing what they have stolen.

I'm going to expel them from the Forbidden City.

There are twelve hundred eunuchs, your majesty.

They have been here for eight hundred years.

It will be dangerous.

Do you think the republican government would help me?

The republican will do almost anything if you know who to speak to.

It must happen quickly

Before they burn the whole place with us inside.

I lived with them all my life, Johnston. They're my family.

Majesty there is no alternative

-What is happening? -I do not know.

What are they carrying?

Their organs

Whatever their crimes, they can't be deprived of the right to be buried as whole men

Well?!

I have forgot what I was saving

You're wasting our time!

We want to know about the Japanese

How did your friendship with the Japanese begin?

Who introduced you?! When?!

Hmm, I think it was...it was 1924

Parliament had been dissolved again The president had fled

At first, I thought it was just another a coup d'etat by just another warlord

Only this time it was different This time it was my turn

Fifteen, love

Play

Your highness, how shocking.

Thirty love.

Ready?

Thirty, fifteen

The rotten government of the republic is in flight!

Now we shall remove the foreign stench of the Manchurian rats who still hide in the Forbidden City

Mr, Pu Yi and his family have been given one hour to leave the Forbidden City

They will be escorted to the home of his father

and remain there under guard as state prisoners until further notice!!

What are you all looking at? What are you standing there for?

You always wanted to leave the Forbidden City

Now you're got an hour to park So, go! Go!

I always thought I hated it here Now, I'm afraid to leave

Do you think they will kill me?

You must do as they say, Your majesty, while I try to reach the British embassy

They will give you asylum there I'm sure will

Chang, take my car to the South gate! I want to drive His Majesty

Your Majesty!

Please, Your Majesty!

What?

But you didn't go to the British embassy, did you?

You ended up at the Japanese embassy

The Japanese were the only people prepared to help me

Help you for nothing?

Japan has an emperor We're almost the same age

I thought it was kindness

At the same time I realized that for many Chinese I was alien

Simply because I'm Manchurian

There was even an anti-Manchurian league who wanted to assassinate me!

So, I want to live in Tientsin

It was a nice provincial town with a big port

In those days, we had a large, international settlement

The Japanese thought it would safer for me there

If you had read the books we gave you more carefully,

You might have learned that anti-Manchurigue was largely financed by the Japanese.

It was designed to frighten you

I did not know that at the time.

- Cigarette? - I do not smoke.

Were the Japanese paying for you in Tientsin?

Oh! no

I had to rent a villa, The Villa Chan, and it was very expensive

So were the bodyguards

I spent a lot of money in Tientsin

Did you still believe in a restoration of the imperial system?

Others did They were later caught and exiled

I can't remember how much jade and jewelry they made me

spend to buy the friendship of some warlord or some white Russian general

I even financed in English speaking newspaper

They close after three days it was unreadable

And what else did you spend your money on?

Oh, I was never tired of buying pianos, watches, radios...

As long as they were foreign!

Of course Anything Western was good

Especially Wrigley's chewing gum, Bayer aspirin and cars

While you were in Tientsin, most of China came under the control of General Chiang Kie Shek,

the so-called Nationalists, the Kuomintang

What were your relations with them?

None

I felt useless in Tientsin I was twenty-one

I dreamt of going to the West

I became a playboy

Am I blue Am I blue

Ain't these tears in my eyes telling you am I blue?

You'd be too If each plan with your girl done fell throught was a time I was her only one

But now I'm the sad and lonely one Bu-Bu-Booo Bu-Bu-Booo

Now she's gone and we're throught Lord, I'm blue

Very good

Well done

That's a great ship... if you're going first-class

I'm not going anywhere

Would you like to dance?

You're a brave man Nobody here would have danced with me

Why is that?

Because I'm Chiness

Well, I'm American

You say California I say French Riviera

San Francisco!

Monte Carlo!! Are we really going this time?

Who's that couple?

Oh, Henry and Elizabeth

The Emperor of China?

The Emperor and his wise

She's beautiful

Yes, very

And who are you?

I'm His Highness's other wife

His other wife?

Number two wife

Well, some people have all the luck

Ladies and gentlemen!

General Chiang Kai Shek has taken Shanghai!

The Kuomintang have broken with the Reds and have knocked them for six!

The Reds are finished!

Sorry about the reception, everyone!

It would be wiser to return to the Japanese delegation now, Your Mejesty

Your car is waiting

Thank you, Mr, Amakasu

The general strike in Shanghai has collapsed

The international settlement is safe

Troops of the Kuomintang are now in full control of the city

And firm steps are being taken to restore order in the native areas

What do you think of General Chiang Kai-shek?

Why should I think of him. He's just another war lord.

But he has mashed the Communists.

That's good. Except the Communist were his sworn allies until a few days ago.

I expect he betrayed them for money.

-You want some gum you can spit? -Uh-huh.

Wen Hsiu, you want some gum?

I want a divorce

I don't want to be your mistress any longer

I thought you were my secondary consort

In the Forbidden City, you were the emperor and I was a secondary consort

But now you are Henry Pu Yi

Wan Jung is your wife, Elizabeth

And who am l? I'm nobody

I didn't know you were so unhappy

You can only have one wife in the West

I want a divorce

No one can divorce me!

I want a divorce!!

Can you inside me?

Give me alone

Your Ladyship!

Thank you

I don't need it!

I don't need it!

Wen Hsiu?

Elizabeth! Can I come in?

Don't you remember me? I'm dressed like a pilot, but I still can't fly! Not yet

Eastern Jewel! We had dancing classes together!

Yes, just before your marriage

Silly girl! Why do people want to get married?

Wen Hsiu has gone She will never come back

Is it so bad?

She was my only friend

Well, at least now you've got your husband all to yourself!

And you've got me!

I'll be your friend

You smoke opium?

Be wicked It's the best in Shanghai! Why are you going to Europe?

The place to go is Japan! It's more fun than anywhere!

It's modern

How do you know we're going to Europe? It's a secret

Oh, I know everything!

I know Chiang Kai Shek has got false teeth

I even know his nickname, "cash my check!"

I'm a spy I don't care who knows it

A spy?

I work for the Japanese, special service Bureau,

and I've come to protect you

The Japanese They are getting closer to him everyday

He is sending his brother to the military academy in Tokyo

They talk to him about Manchuria all the time

And Mr Amakasu never says hello to me

I don't trust the Japanese

Of course, I'd love to be the Emperor's new secondary consort!

Eastern Jewel

If the post is available

The post is vacant, my dear cousin

But you don't fit the port!

Wen Hsiu left the dog behind Do you want it?

It's my fault  It's all my fault

l came to see you, Your Majesty To give you bad news

Something terrible has happened

The lmperial tombs of our Manchurian ancestors have been attacked and robbed

by troops of the Kuomintang Chinese soldiers

A warlord working for Chiang Kai Shek

The body of the Empress Dowager was hacked to pieces

Her pearl necklace has become a wedding present from Ching Kai Shek to his new wife

Prisoner 981 reporting

Open the door!

Close the door!

Tell me, nine-eight-one Do you consider yourself to be Chinese?

Of course

What is this?

Japan

And what do you call this part of China?

The Northeast

And what did you call it as a child?

Manchuria

Japan invaded Manchuria on September eighteenth, 1931

and began to set up a puppet state called Manchukuo

Shortly afterwards, a Japanese delegation paid you a secret visit in Tientsin

to request your collaboration, which you say you refused

Speak up!

I've already told you I have told you a hundred times

Tell us again! Tell us two-hundred times!

I refused to collaborate

You say you refused, but a month later, on November tenth, 1931

there your are arriving in Manchuria, or should I call it Manchukuo?!

Now, according to this so-called confession of yours, you didn't go of your own free will!

You insist that you were kidnapped by the Japanese!

Yes

And taken to Manchuria by force!

Yes!

Sit down!

Do you remember a man called Reginald Fleming Johnston?

He was your tutor

Yes

And a good friend, I believe

After twenty-eight years in China, Mr, Johnston returned to England

He became a professor of original studies at London University

And he wrote a book It's called Twilight in the Forbidden City,

and it's dedicated to you

Tientsin 1931

I'm going to miss you, Johnston

I shell miss you, Your Majesty

Do you think a man can become emperor again?

Yes

Thank you, Your Majesty

How can we say "Good-bye"?

As we said, "Hello"

Farewell, Mr Johnston

Farewell, Your Majesty

All aboard! All aboard!

Thank you, sir

Good-bye, Mr Johnston! We'll never forget you, Mr Johnston

Good-bye! Mr, Johnston Good-bye! Good-bye!

All aboard!

On page four-hundred and forty-nine, Mr Johnston writes

The endeavor to make out that the Emperor had been kidnapped by the Japanese is wholly untrue

He left Tientsin and went to Manchuria of his own free will

Johnston was a liar!

What did you say? I didn't hear you

Mr Johnston had left before I was taken to Manchuria

He couldn't have known what happened

Sit down!

Is this your confession, eight-nine-five?

Yes

According to this account, you pre-packed the man's things on the morning of November ninth!

lsn't it unusual for a man who's kidnapped to have his luggage packed

by his valet the day before he's kidnapped?!

This is what you've written, isn't it?!

Who told you to pack this man's luggage?!

These two stories don't fit, do they?

It was a long time ago Perhaps I made a mistake

You are lying!

You are both lying!!

Control yourself!

My family was bared alive in Manchukuo

My mother digged her own grave because of people like them

Smash the enemies Smash them forever

Enough

These might help you to remember the truth

What made you write that?

It's the truth

Chingfase wishes your safe, Johnny

You mean he refuses to say good-bye to me

He will see me when he comes to my colonation

Request your choice Request you to change your mind

I'm the hereditary ruler of the Manchurian people

There can be no Manchukuo without me

Do you not see? The Japanese are using you

I must try to use them

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria will be condemned by the League of Nations

and by every civilized country on earth!

The Chinese Republic had broken every promise it ever made to me!

Chinese troops desecrated the tombs of my ancestors!!

And Chinese troops didn't defend Manchuria from the Japanese!

But Manchuria is still China!

China has turned it's back on me

Please, don't go

Manchuria is the richest frontier Asia!

Coal, oil, railways!

Millions of Chinese immigrants are going there every year!

I'm going to build my country

If you go, you will betray your country

Which country?

Johnston was wrong, but he wasn't a liar

There was no kidnapped!

You went to Manchuria by your own choice, because you wanted to be Emperor again!

You will rewrite your confessions from the beginning!

Guard!

Take this people away!

Out!

Manchuria 1934

To heaven

To earth

Chingfase is a fool how could he miss the birth of a new country

It looks like an agrarian of a factory

To the moon

To the sun

You're an empress again

What I'm going to be is a pilot!

I'm going to train at a secret base near Yokohama to learn precision-bombing

I want to bomb Shanghai

Bomb Shanghai?

I hate China!

I hate you

The Japanese Army High Command!

Very impressive!

The Japanese Army!

Quickly!

On behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the commander of the Kantong Army

extends his warmest congratulations on the occasion of His Majesty's coronation

Manchukuo will grow into a bright vision

Japan will always be on the side of the Emperor

Uh, may I introduce you? My wife, the Princess Hiro Saga

Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu

Honorable Chang Ching Hui, Minister of Defense

Monseigneur, Colonna

The Empress and I accept with great pleasure

Excuse me, General

Ahh! And now Mr, Amakasu He's the new chief of the Manchuria Motion Picture studies

Why do you have to spoil this day? Why?

Mr Amakasu is the most powerful man in Manchukuo

What are you talking about?

You didn't believe I could be Emperor again, but I am

You are blind

Do you know what it means to be an empress?

You are an empress!

Why do you not make love to me anymore?

Because you have become an opium addict

Opium killed my mother, opium destroyed China

You can buy opium anywhere in Manchukuo!

Shut up!

In any shop

Shut up!

Your brother is going to have a child

We must have a child We must have an heir!

Emperor Hirohito has officially invited us to Japan

I'm going alone! You are staying here

I would never go to Japan

Then go to your room!

Ten thousand years to His Majesty!

Ten thousand years!

Ten thousand years to His Majesty!

To His Majesty, ten thousand years!

I told you, I hate you

Only because I give you what you need

Now we're engaged

Good morning /Good morning

Good morning, sir

You forgot my toothpowder

Oh... yes...sir

Move him!

Nine-eight-one! Collect your things!

I said, collect your things!

Keep it to the story That is an order

Upstairs!

Stop!

Your laces are undone Do them up!

Thursday, you serve lunch

Friday, you clean the toilet

Saturday, you sweep the floor

I have never been separated from my family

You'd better get used to it!

It isn't so bad People get used to anything

You don't remember me, do you?

I was the Minister of Trade, in Manchukuo

You were all in Manchukuo

Now, I'm the cell leader

It is important to follow the rules here

No talking during study session!

Manchuria 1935

Where is your gun, Captain? Where are their swords?

Our weapons have been removed, Your majesty, on order of colonel Yoshioka

Colonel Yoshioka?

Colonel Yoshioka!

What has happened here? Why has my guard been disarmed?

Yes, it's very unfortunate, Your Majesty

There have been many changes while you were in Tokyo

Your Majesty, may I present Masaomi Kobayakawa, the new Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo

Why is prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu not here to receive me?

The prime Minister has resigned, Your Majesty

His son been assassinated

Assassinated?

By communist bandits, Your Majesty

I must see him at once

He refuse to see anyone, Your majesty He has gone to a monastery, far away

Who are you?

Chang Ching Hui, Your Majesty Minister of Defense

Yes, of course

The council meeting will be at four o'clock, Your Majesty Before the state dinner

The emperor has been asked to sign the following.

After careful consideration

We have decided to nominate the honorable Zhang jin gui as the new prime minister of Man zhou guo.

No.

Today on our return from Japan we wish to speak of something more important.

The future of our friendship with Japan.

This is based on mutual respect,

And respect means equality and independence.

When the two emperors stood together and saluted the two national flags

They recognized that Man zhou guo had come of age.

Man zhou guo is not a colony, Man zhou guo is Manchuria.

The relationship between our two countries is neither the relationship of the two emperors.

It is ruled in paternal trust.

ln... in the desire to preserve our ancient traditions.

And in a mutual respect for our national identities.

Already we have welcomed the ambassadors of El salvador, Costa Rica, the Vatican...

Soon I'm sure the other countries would follow.

Zhang xiao xu was an idiot.

He thought the open board were there to decrease production.

But that was just propaganda.

What the Japanese really wanted was cash, more production!

Of course, they've gotten rid of him.

Well, I had been a drug abuser all my life, opium, heroin.

I could deal with the green gang in Shanghai, even with Chiang Kai-shek.

That is why the Japanese wanted me to be prime minister.

You were right I was blind

I'm going to have a child The father is Manchurian

Colonel Yoshioka, Mr Amakasu!

I did it for you!

His Majesty forgot to sign the appointment of the new prime Minister Mr Chang Ching Hui!

I didn't forget

When an Englishman robs someone, Your Majesty, he becomes a gentleman

If he robs a lot, he becomes a knight

Do you imagine the British run their Empire as a charity?

If lndia has to pay for the cost of it's own occupation, so must Manchukuo

We hope Manchukuo will have an heir The Empress is expecting a child

Yes, Your Majesty We are aware of the situation

This is the name of the father

His name is Chang! He is your driver!

All the necessary facts have been recorded The man will be punished

The emperor can't allow his honor to be stained

The Japanese are the only divine race on earth

We will take China, Hong-Kong, lndo-China,

Siam, Malaya, Singapore, and lndia!

Asia belongs to us!!

How long have you been here?

Three years

You were issued with the same clothes as else everyone

What can't you learn to look after yourself?

There have been complaints from your cellmates

You must learn how to urinate at night without working them all up!

The way to do it's to urinate against the side of the bucket, not into the middle!

Yes, comrade

You still think I'm your servant, don't you?

It's the last time, the last time,

This is the last time

Why do you think Becale has been in prison all this time?

Haven't you thought about it?

Because he was my servant

Yes

Loyalty is a great quality, isn't?

So do you think it's unjust that your loyal servant is punished for serving you?

I think it isn't a question of justice?

It's a question of justice!

Even your servant has a choice

Maybe he had nothing to do with the political decision Manchukuo

or the crimes that happened around me

He was the only innocent person there

Sit down

Parmead Lee is now a free citizen of the peoples Republic of China

He's being released today

You have a train to catch

This is my wife We have three children

You know nothing about me

Thank you

For long time I thought you kept

because you wanted someone to look up to me

If you went out on the streets of China today and people knew who you were,

somebody will probably try to kill you!

You talk of your as you are the only one who suffer

Stop hiding behind your private story

Write it again all of it!

We are all pretending You are just pretending you have changed

You can't speak like that in here

That is conquer revolute in talk

I know who you all are

You're captain of the imperial guard

And you become a spy in the palace

You, the minister of trade

You responsible for starvation of Manchuria

He... Prime Minister of the cotics.

Shut up! The party will teach us to be a new man!!

We're working for a new China!!

You worked in Amakasu's private office

You are still the same people! People don't change

Guard!! Guard!!

Guard!!

And I let it happen

Guard! Guard!

I let it happen

The second edict, Your Majesty Japanese will be the official language in Manchukuo schools

Your Majesty!

The baby was born dead, Your Majesty

How is the Empress?

It would be better if she gone to a clinic, somewhere warm

She's already left, Your Majesty

Open the door

With Manchukuo now firmly in their grasp, the Japanese soon controlled most of North China

By 1937 they were ready to strike South, at the heart of the country

The attack on Shanghai was one of the first civilian bombing raids in history

It left thousands homeless, thousands dead

Three months later, Japanese armies were besieging the provisional capital at Nanking

And when the city fell, the atrocities began

Trying to terrorize the rest of China,

more than two hundred thousands of the civilians exacuted

The world watched in horror, but no help was given

On December the seventh, 1941 Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor

There was no warning

Manchukuo, the Japanese bastion in North China, was still ruled by the puppet emperor, Pu Yi

But behind the facade of triumph, was a country enslaved

A country where Japanese experimenting biological warfare were carried out on live human beings.

A country where opium production became the easiest way to finance the war.

Millions of people were deliberately turned into drug addicts.

Nine days after the bomb at Hiroshima, on August the fifteenth 1945

Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan

It was the first time his voice had ever been heard on radio

You must get to Tokyo, Your majesty

You must surrender to the Americans, not the Russians

The communists will kill everyone!

Your excellence have reached Habi.

We must leave at once

There is no room on the plane

No trucks!

Here you go

The Empress has returned

Your Majesty, please

Fest must not know you have seen her like that

Your Majesty!

Hurry!

There is no room on the plane, Your Majesty!

The women aren't in danger! We must hurry!!

Your Majesty! Your Majesty is leaving now!

Now!

The Russians!

Perhaps you think we are here to teach men to lie in a new way

Why did you sign every accusation made against you?

I didn't step you from killing yourself to see you like this...

Someone who signs anything to please his enemies, to please me!

You know 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?

I was responsible for everything

Your are responsible for what you do!

All your life you thought you were better than everyone else

Now you think you are the worst of all!

Why can you not leave me alone?

You save my life to make me a puppet in your own play

You saved me because I'm useful to you

Is that so terrible, to be useful?

1959

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi!

By order of the supreme people's count,

the war criminal Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, male, fifty-three years old,

of the Manchu nationality, and from Peking,

has now served ten years detention!

As a result of remolding thought labor and ideological education during his captivity,

he has shown that he has genuinely reformed!

In accordance with clause one of the Special Pardon Order, he is therefore to be released!

You see, I will end up living in prison longer than you

Peking 1967

Long live chief of Mao!

The Red Guards!

They are so young

It's dangerous

Decision of traitor!

Look, over there Pu Chien, look!

It's the Governor of our prison!

It can't be!

It is! I'm sure it is!

Be careful! Come back!

Comrade This must be a mistake! I know this man! He is a good man

Who are you?

I'm a gardener

Join us, comrade, or off!

But what has he done?

He has been accused

Accused of what?

lmperialismania! Reactionary elements! Traitor to country!

Confess your crimes!!

I have nothing to confess

Kowtow to Chairman Mao!

Confess your crimes!!

I have nothing to confess

Kowtow!

Confess your crimes!!

Wait!

He is teacher! He is a good teacher!

You! Get out of here!

You can't do this to him!

Move! You want to be him?!

You are wrong!! He is s good teacher!

Decision of reactionary element! Decision of reactionary element!

Stop! You are not allowed in here!

Who are you?

I live here! I'm the son of the guardian!

Ah, Well, I used to live here, too

That is where I sat

Who are you?

I was the Emperor of China

Prove it!

This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where the empress were crowned

The last Emperor to be crowned here was Aisian-Gioro Pu Yi

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