THE LAST EMPEROR (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards®, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated - quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring an international cast. Yet the power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable - the life of emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and outside of the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Qing-dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
• Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Tao Wu, Guang Fan, Henry Kyi, Alvin Riley III, Lisa Lu, Hideo Takamatsu, Hajime Tachibana, Basil Pao, Henry O, Kaige Chen, Liangbin Zhang, Wenjie Huang, Dong Liang, Zhendong Dong, Jiechen Dong, Constantine Gregory, Huaikuei Soong, Ruzhen Shao, Li Yu, Guangli Li, Xu Chunqing, Tianmin Zhang, Hongnian Luo, Shihong Yu, Jun Wu, Lucia Hwong, Jingping Cui, Shi Liang, Junguo Gu, Xu Tongrui, Fusheng Li, Shu Chen, Shuyan Cheng, Daxing Zhang, Ruigang Zu, Yuan Jin, Akira Ikuta, Michael Vermaaten, Matthew Spender, Hongxiang Cai, Xinmin Cui, Zhenduo Li, Shigang Luo, Guang Ma, Biao Wang, Baozong Yang, Hongchang Yang, Lingmu Zhang, Bernardo Bertolucci
• Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
• Runtime: 3:39
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Tao Films, S.R.L., Yanco Films Limited
• Media Format: Movie