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	The Last Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Last Emperor is a 1987 biographical film which tells the life story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of China.
		We are left to imagine the Emperor as having passed the Mandate of Heaven to the current leadership, and borne aloft to the Western sky.
		In particular, a character appears in the DVD that did not in the movies, and the drug-addled opium pusher appointed Minister of Defense by the Japanese, who becomes a sort of demon when he surfaces in Puyi's prison camp, whispering the awful truth to Puyi at night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Emperor (1215 words)

	:: MVRemix Interviews - The Last Emperor ::
		Last Emperor: I would have to say probably my personal favorite would be ‘Animalistics’ though probably the one I am most proud of and feel most passionately about is ‘One Life’, a song I recorded with a gentlemen by the name of Poetic, formally of The Gravediggaz.
		Last Emperor: Around 1998, or early 99, Raptivism approached me about a project they were putting together called ‘No More Prisons’ that dealt with the prison industrial complex in this country and the overall judicial system putting people in prison and the irregularities that need to be corrected.
		Last Emperor: I think that I learned that no matter what goes on, whether it be label situations, sometimes a lack of work, that I have to be really serious about my craft and really develop my skills a as writer.
	urban.mvremix.com /interviews/lastemp3.shtml (6408 words)

	Royalty.nu - Chinese History - The Last Emperor of China, Henry Pu Yi (Hsuan Tung)
		The last emperor of China was Henry P'u Yi, pronounced "Poo yee." His name is also sometimes spelled P'u-i, Puyi, Pu-Yi, or Buyi.
		From Emperor to Citizen by Henry Pu Yi.
		The Last Emperor by Arnold C. Brackman is a vivid biography of P'u Yi.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/China/PuYi.html (3172 words)

	The Last Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, the Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years, was not a great dictator.
		Loosely based on the memoirs of Sir Reginald Johnston, the emperor's Scottish tutor (Peter O'Toole), and Pu Yi's (John Lone) autobiography, From Emperor to Citizen, The Last Emperor chronicles the major events of modern China, its histrionic and bloody transitions from empire to republic and then to a communist state.
		Told in now-expanded, successive flashbacks which paint an innocent and sympathetic portrait of the boy emperor, the film draws a remarkable parallel between Pu Yi's desire to reach the world outside his palace and the spectator's fascination with the emperor's exotic land.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/filmarchive/19/11/PuYi.html (475 words)

	The Last Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was in the small hours of Sunday morning on May 26, 1963 that touched his mind; it was the day of the signing ceremony in which thirty-one African leaders attached their signatures to the Charter of The Organization of African Unity, know as the OAU.
		In that year the leaders of thirty-one African States established the Organization of African Unity, an instrument which they hoped would lay the foundations for a continental union, or would at-lease lead to that degree of economic and political unity which was very essential for Africa.
		The Constitution of 1931 was one of a number of modernizing initiatives taken by Haile Selassie I on ascending the thorn, and one of its purposes was undoubtedly to emphasize, both in Ethiopia and abroad, the reputation he had built up during his position as Regent looked upon as an enlightened and reforming ruler.
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	The New York Times: Best Pictures
		The film, in telling the life story of Henry Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last, quivering twig on the Manchu Dynasty's venerable tree, is distinguished by its gorgeous re-creation of the lacquered, ceremonious interior of the Forbidden City, where Pu Yi was virtually imprisoned for 12 years after the tottering dynasty crumbled into nothingness in 1912.
		Based largely on the approved autobiography of Pu Yi himself, and filmed from a script formally sanctioned by the Chinese Government, ''The Last Emperor'' glides smoothly through one of the most horrific episodes of recent history, the effort to remake wayward individuals by remolding them through education and labor in vast, northern prison camps.
		A few months ago, for example, shortly after ''The Last Emperor'' opened in Paris, the French novelist Lucien Bodard, who was born in China and worked there as a journalist in the 1950's, recalled interviewing the former emperor in prison in Manchuria.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/movies/bestpictures/emperor-ar2.html (1883 words)

	The Last Emperor
		There he stood, this unlikely emperor of the world, telling the UN's 190 nations how it is going to be.
		The Rumsfeld/Cheney axis of war was in the ascendant, the UN was for wimps.
		It would be nice to believe that Tony Blair played some part in strengthening the arm of the Colin Powell internationalists who won the argument on the need for UN legitimacy.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0913-07.htm (1308 words)

	The Last Emperor
		The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty.
		At war's end, the emperor is taken prisoner by the Russians; while incarcerated, he is forced to fend for himself without servants at his beck and call for the first time.
		We last see him in 1967, the year of his death; now employed by the State as a gardener, Pu Yi makes one last visit to the Forbidden City...as a tourist.
	www.djangomusic.com /item_movie.asp?id=V++++28316&afid=DEB0040131517 (473 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Last Emperor [1987]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China.
		After Bertolucci brilliantly carves the character of the Last Emperor and shows both his weaknesses and human characteristics; we see a lonely and forlorn man return to his palace - that is no longer his home, but a tourist centre.
		For them the emperor acts as a symbol of the collective and his re-education is seen as an act of redemption.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000216XSA (1174 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Emperor - Director's Cut: DVD: John Lone,Joan Chen,Peter O'Toole,Ruocheng Ying,Victor Wong ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This longer cut largely top-loads the film with greater reason to feel compassion for the emperor, with his often wordless sense-adventure in the mysteries that could only be known to one little boy plunged into indecipherable alien decorum, robbed of self-determination and common sense by his infinite privilege.
		This improved The Last Emperor is richer in soul and a pronounced sense of Bertolucci actually directing this film in the most personal and profound sense.
		Indeed, The Last Emperor may be one of the small handful of Perfect Films yet created in the history of film, able and willing to showcase all that is good and all that is necessary about the arts and their ability to drive our own will to identification.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305261032?v=glance (2898 words)

	The Original Movie Review- The Last Emperor
		He had a troubled relationship with both of his wives, and in 1931, he was moved to the new country of Manchukuo.
		Whether a sea of eunuchs is kowtowing before the child Emperor, or an army of invaders is approaching, the choreography and attention for detail is splendid.
		The epic story of China’s last emperor will educate viewers, while the visual aspect of the film will keep viewers coming back to watch it again.
	www.geocities.com /the_original_movie_review/lastemperor.html (623 words)

	The Last Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To say really briefly, I am interested in "the person." I am not sure whether I can refer him as a "person" or not, but he is Pu Yi, the last emperor of China.
		The reason why I am interested in him is that I saw the fascinating movie, "The Last Emperor." This movie is not only entertainment at all, but it comprehends various things, such as historical events, fashion, custom, music, furniture, styles of architecture, manners, and one story of one person.
		He had been the emperor since he was a three-year-old child.
	www.csuchico.edu /~cheinz/syllabi/fall99/matsumoto (164 words)

	The Last Emperor DVD
		A stunning milestone in the history of cinema, this is director Bernardo Bertolicci's original director's cut, presented for the first time on video, the way it was meant to be seen.
		John Lone ("M. Butterfly") stars as Pu Yi, emperor of China, who comes from a long history of a traditional that is irreversibly altered by two world wars and fierce upheaval.
		Guided by his English mentor (seven-time Oscar nominee Peter O'Toole), Pu Yi is forced to leave the lavish, protective walls of his kingdom and somehow find the strength to build a new life in a strange world he has always longed to explores, but has never really known.
	www.chinesetapes.com /movie_chinese/the_last_emperor.html (110 words)

	The Last Emperor (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The movie is about the life of Pu Yi (John Lone), China's last emperor.
		In spite of becoming emperor at the age of three, Yi's reign was more of a burden than anything else.
		Historically accurate for the most part, "The Last Emperor" is easily one of the top 10 films of the 1980s and overall an exceptional achievement in every cinematic department known to man. 5 stars out of 5.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0093389 (457 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Last Emperor
		The Last Emperor tells the true story of Pu Yi, the final Emperor of China.
		These parts certainly could have been the restored footage from the director's cut, but was definitely in need of some work.
		I have no way of knowing whether these problem areas were the recent additions or not because it has been so long since I last saw the film.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thelastemperor.php (758 words)

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		Emperor and A General DVD The Last Day of World War 2 VCD
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	ESPNsoccernet - Europe - The last emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Butragueño had just been promoted from one of those Catch-22 'Deputy Deputy' posts to Director of Football - on the departure of Jorge Valdano - so it was only natural that he should offer up his gratitude in a public way.
		Pérez was never heard to contradict this epithet, and indeed, maybe his greatest fault was that like all tottering emperors, he had begun to believe the myth.
		Not only that, he was a mate of Pérez from way back, as was the party's present leader Mariano Rajoy.
	soccernet.espn.go.com /news/story?id=360809 (1923 words)

	The Last Emperor
		In 1987 the movie The Last Emperor swept the Oscars winning nine of them including best director and best picture.
		It is the fact-based story of Pu Yi who at the age of three was crowned emperor of China…the last one.
		The film is shot on location in China and stars John Lone as the Emperor and Peter O’Toole as his tutor and Joan Chen as his wife.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/leadership/lastEmperor.htm (475 words)

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		Last Emperor - "Rhyme Wars: The Emperor Strikes Back" - Interviews - The Elements - Your One Stop For Hip Hop and Rap Music
		Along time ago, in ghetto far, far away (in Philly), The Last Emperor was born.
		T.JONES: "Your name, The Last Emperor, came from the film of the same name by Bernardo Bertolucci.
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		A stunning milestone in the history of cinema, this is director Bernardo Bertolucci's original director's cut, presented for the first time on video, the way it was meant to be seen.
		John Lone stars as Pu Yi, emperor of China, who comes from a long history of tradition that is irreversibly altered by two world wars and fierce political upheaval.
		Guided by his English mentor (O'Toole), Pu Yi is forced to leave the lavish, protective walls of his kingdom and somehow find the strength to build a new life in a strange world he has always longed to explore, but has never really known.
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	The Last Emperor - Movie Tome
		Unusually for a former emperor, Henry became a gardener and laboured for many years in the Botanical Gardens of Beijing until his death in 1967.
		The movie is based on Pu Yi's own memoirs, From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, and on other contemporary material.
		It was the first western production to be allowed to film in the Forbidden City, and it went on to win nine Academy Awards.
	www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-29980 (73 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Last Emperor [1987]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Emperor And The Assassin [2000]; DVD ~ Kaige Chen (Director)
		We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but The Last Emperor focuses more on visuals than characterisation anyway.
		The story of the Pu Yi, a three year old toddler who became the last Emperor of China.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CWZR (1096 words)

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		Pixar's latest animated feature centers on a selfish rookie racecar who learns that there are more important things in life than winning when he takes an unplanned detour on his way to the big race.
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