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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:55,617 --> 00:02:59,700 The war criminals will proceed in orderly fashion... 2 00:02:59,784 --> 00:03:04,032 to the main waiting room and await instructions. 3 00:03:04,117 --> 00:03:08,324 No talking. Obey the guards. 4 00:03:09,784 --> 00:03:14,116 War criminals must proceed to the main waiting room. 5 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,658 Those caught talking will be severely punished. 6 00:04:07,742 --> 00:04:09,741 The emperor. 7 00:04:11,367 --> 00:04:13,324 Your Majesty. 8 00:04:13,409 --> 00:04:15,366 What do they think they are doing? 9 00:04:15,450 --> 00:04:17,449 Get up. It is dangerous. 10 00:04:17,534 --> 00:04:21,533 Go back. Go back. Go! 11 00:04:21,617 --> 00:04:24,199 Are you mad? They could kill us all. 12 00:04:24,284 --> 00:04:25,449 Go. Go. 13 00:06:21,450 --> 00:06:24,533 Open the door! 14 00:06:24,617 --> 00:06:27,741 Open the door! 15 00:06:27,825 --> 00:06:29,824 Open the door! 16 00:06:31,075 --> 00:06:33,324 Open the door! 17 00:07:02,617 --> 00:07:04,116 Mama. 18 00:07:28,325 --> 00:07:32,032 By the command of Her Imperial Majesty... 19 00:07:32,117 --> 00:07:35,700 also called the Compassionate and the Blessed... 20 00:07:35,783 --> 00:07:39,199 the Respectful and the Long-living... 21 00:07:39,284 --> 00:07:42,032 the Empress Dowager commands... 22 00:07:42,117 --> 00:07:44,074 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi... 23 00:07:44,158 --> 00:07:46,366 son of Prince Chun... 24 00:07:46,450 --> 00:07:50,241 shall be transferred immediately... 25 00:07:50,325 --> 00:07:52,241 to the Forbidden City... 26 00:07:52,325 --> 00:07:54,658 and will remain in the Great Within... 27 00:07:54,741 --> 00:07:57,533 awaiting Her Majesty's decision. 28 00:07:57,617 --> 00:07:59,616 Respect this! 29 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:39,449 Ar Mo, I am giving you my son. 30 00:08:40,492 --> 00:08:43,116 - My son is your son. - Quick! Quick! 31 00:09:06,158 --> 00:09:08,157 I want to go home. 32 00:09:09,242 --> 00:09:11,616 No. Look at the Forbidden City. 33 00:10:05,492 --> 00:10:07,491 Give him to me. 34 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,199 Ar Mo! 35 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:43,241 Pu Yi, come here. 36 00:10:58,409 --> 00:11:00,866 How small you are. 37 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:04,074 Are you afraid of me? 38 00:11:04,158 --> 00:11:06,366 Everyone is. 39 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,907 I am the Grand Empress Dowager. 40 00:11:12,908 --> 00:11:18,074 And I have lived here for a long, long time. 41 00:11:29,325 --> 00:11:34,032 And they call me the old Buddha. 42 00:11:39,908 --> 00:11:43,366 This is Peony. 43 00:11:43,450 --> 00:11:46,199 Do you like her? 44 00:11:46,284 --> 00:11:48,490 Men, you know... 45 00:11:48,575 --> 00:11:52,907 are not allowed in the Forbidden City after dark. 46 00:11:54,616 --> 00:11:58,366 Even little men like you. 47 00:11:58,450 --> 00:12:02,074 The only man who can live here... 48 00:12:02,158 --> 00:12:04,657 is the emperor. 49 00:12:06,450 --> 00:12:09,824 But the emperor is on high... 50 00:12:09,908 --> 00:12:13,657 riding the dragon now. 51 00:12:15,158 --> 00:12:18,324 He died today. 52 00:12:35,992 --> 00:12:38,074 Longevity. 53 00:12:41,992 --> 00:12:47,699 These other men ... They are not real men. 54 00:12:47,783 --> 00:12:50,657 They are all eunuchs. 55 00:12:57,075 --> 00:13:02,991 And now they are all waiting for me to die. 56 00:13:03,075 --> 00:13:05,032 That is why... 57 00:13:05,117 --> 00:13:09,824 they are putting my bed in the middle of the room... 58 00:13:09,908 --> 00:13:12,949 under the black pearl. 59 00:13:15,658 --> 00:13:18,407 Little Pu Yi... 60 00:13:21,616 --> 00:13:24,283 I have decided... 61 00:13:24,367 --> 00:13:29,699 that you will be the new Lord of 10,000 Years. 62 00:13:30,950 --> 00:13:36,740 You will be the Son of Heaven. 63 00:14:29,950 --> 00:14:32,157 Are we going home, Papa? 64 00:15:41,242 --> 00:15:43,074 Shh! Shh! 65 00:15:47,449 --> 00:15:49,282 Shh. It will soon be over. 66 00:15:51,867 --> 00:15:53,574 Look! 67 00:16:04,449 --> 00:16:06,448 Look. 68 00:17:40,533 --> 00:17:42,448 Cricket! 69 00:17:53,908 --> 00:17:55,991 Cricket! Cricket! Where's the cricket? 70 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,365 Ah, he is my friend, Your Majesty. 71 00:17:59,449 --> 00:18:02,198 Safe and warm under my arm. 72 00:18:03,283 --> 00:18:06,323 Kept me company on the long journey here. 73 00:18:06,408 --> 00:18:09,198 Ah. See? 74 00:18:10,449 --> 00:18:14,115 He is kowtowing to Your Majesty. 75 00:18:14,199 --> 00:18:17,532 Now he can be the emperor's cricket. 76 00:18:27,950 --> 00:18:31,282 Your Majesty, this is the Forbidden City. 77 00:18:33,783 --> 00:18:35,907 Look. 78 00:18:35,992 --> 00:18:38,699 This little one is Your Majesty's bedroom. 79 00:18:38,783 --> 00:18:41,657 - This is where we are. - Am I going home today? 80 00:18:41,741 --> 00:18:44,115 Not today. 81 00:18:44,199 --> 00:18:46,115 Not yet. 82 00:18:46,199 --> 00:18:50,240 And here. Look. This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony... 83 00:18:50,324 --> 00:18:52,323 where Your Majesty was crowned. 84 00:19:00,616 --> 00:19:05,156 I give Your Majesty the Gate of Marshovala. 85 00:19:05,241 --> 00:19:08,073 I give you the Marshio Gate. 86 00:19:08,157 --> 00:19:11,532 - The gate. - Yes. Yes. 87 00:19:11,616 --> 00:19:14,115 And the Palace of the Cloudless Heaven. 88 00:19:14,199 --> 00:19:17,866 And ... Yes. 89 00:19:17,950 --> 00:19:21,156 Your Majesty, your imperial bath is ready. 90 00:19:21,241 --> 00:19:24,156 I don't like baths! 91 00:19:24,241 --> 00:19:27,615 I don't like baths. I don't like baths. 92 00:19:31,616 --> 00:19:33,782 No bean curd today... 93 00:19:33,867 --> 00:19:35,949 and no meat! 94 00:19:52,366 --> 00:19:55,866 Is it true I can do anything I want? 95 00:19:55,950 --> 00:19:57,990 Of course, Your Majesty. 96 00:19:58,074 --> 00:19:59,990 Anything you want. 97 00:20:00,074 --> 00:20:02,490 You are the Lord of 10,000 Years. 98 00:20:02,575 --> 00:20:06,448 Oh! Oh, no! Not in my face. 99 00:20:06,533 --> 00:20:09,866 I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven! 100 00:20:09,950 --> 00:20:12,574 Oh, yes! Oh, yes! 101 00:20:12,658 --> 00:20:15,407 I am the Son of Heaven! 102 00:20:15,491 --> 00:20:17,574 I am the Son of Heaven! 103 00:20:19,116 --> 00:20:21,907 Ar Mo. I want to go home. 104 00:20:21,991 --> 00:20:24,407 I want to go home. I want to go home. 105 00:20:24,491 --> 00:20:28,990 I want to go home, Ar Mo. I want to go home. 106 00:20:47,366 --> 00:20:50,782 Once upon a time... 107 00:20:50,867 --> 00:20:53,907 there was a great tree... 108 00:20:53,991 --> 00:20:57,532 and a great wind. 109 00:20:57,616 --> 00:20:59,782 And when the tree fell... 110 00:20:59,867 --> 00:21:01,948 the monkeys were scattered. 111 00:21:26,116 --> 00:21:29,115 His soup is getting cold. 112 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:33,115 - Where am I? - In the People's Republic of China. 113 00:21:40,116 --> 00:21:43,448 - Why did you stop me? - You are a criminal. You must be judged. 114 00:22:29,449 --> 00:22:31,657 I repeat! 115 00:22:31,741 --> 00:22:35,407 Prisoners going to their cells will walk with their heads bowed. 116 00:22:35,491 --> 00:22:37,407 Keep your eyes on the ground. 117 00:22:37,491 --> 00:22:40,323 No looking forward or to the side. 118 00:22:40,408 --> 00:22:43,448 The guards will give you directions and tell you when to turn. 119 00:22:59,658 --> 00:23:01,657 Pu Chieh. 120 00:23:23,074 --> 00:23:27,282 Your guest is waiting to meet you, Your Majesty. 121 00:23:31,324 --> 00:23:33,823 Also, your mother has arrived. 122 00:23:34,907 --> 00:23:38,990 You have not seen your mother for many years, Your Majesty. 123 00:23:50,491 --> 00:23:54,198 - He is so small. - He is young, Your Majesty. 124 00:23:54,283 --> 00:23:56,657 Go. 125 00:23:56,741 --> 00:23:58,699 Go. 126 00:24:02,949 --> 00:24:06,323 The emperor's brother, His Excellency Pu Chieh. 127 00:24:24,449 --> 00:24:26,365 Ar Mo. 128 00:24:39,575 --> 00:24:42,532 How is the health of His Majesty's mother? 129 00:24:42,616 --> 00:24:45,282 It is better. Thank you. 130 00:24:45,366 --> 00:24:47,948 How much His Majesty has grown. 131 00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:54,823 My mother has not seen me for seven years. 132 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:01,240 Do you remember my face? 133 00:25:01,324 --> 00:25:02,574 No. 134 00:25:04,740 --> 00:25:08,323 The night they came with the horses, I knew it would be like this. 135 00:25:08,408 --> 00:25:12,240 - My brother sees you every day. - Pu Chieh is very excited to meet you. 136 00:25:12,324 --> 00:25:14,323 He often talks about you. 137 00:25:14,408 --> 00:25:17,156 We are all very proud of you. 138 00:25:17,241 --> 00:25:19,365 The kite. 139 00:25:19,449 --> 00:25:21,323 He chose this for you. 140 00:25:35,116 --> 00:25:37,115 Papa! 141 00:26:17,283 --> 00:26:19,198 They're turning away. 142 00:26:19,283 --> 00:26:22,865 Of course. Ordinary people are not allowed to look at the emperor. 143 00:26:22,949 --> 00:26:27,614 - I'm too important. - Is it true that you can do whatever you want? 144 00:26:27,699 --> 00:26:31,823 Of course I can. If I am naughty, someone else is punished. 145 00:26:31,907 --> 00:26:33,823 One of them. 146 00:26:37,657 --> 00:26:40,031 Stop! 147 00:26:40,116 --> 00:26:42,115 The emperor will walk. 148 00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:54,198 I have never met other children. 149 00:26:54,283 --> 00:26:57,865 - Are they all like you? - I've got three sisters and two friends. 150 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,365 If you come to our house, you can play with us. 151 00:27:00,449 --> 00:27:02,614 The emperor never leaves the palace. 152 00:27:03,991 --> 00:27:05,990 We play games together! 153 00:27:06,074 --> 00:27:07,990 I know a game too. 154 00:27:08,074 --> 00:27:10,073 Run! 155 00:28:04,074 --> 00:28:06,823 The ones on the boat are the high consorts. 156 00:28:06,907 --> 00:28:10,906 - High consorts? - The wives of the emperor before me. 157 00:28:10,991 --> 00:28:13,948 They say they're my mother, but they're not. They're not! 158 00:30:16,283 --> 00:30:19,614 Why are you wearing that? You are not allowed to wear yellow. 159 00:30:21,448 --> 00:30:23,364 But this is ordinary yellow. 160 00:30:23,448 --> 00:30:25,115 It is imperial yellow. 161 00:30:25,199 --> 00:30:26,865 No, it is not. 162 00:30:26,949 --> 00:30:30,531 We say it is. Only the emperor can wear that yellow. 163 00:30:30,615 --> 00:30:32,531 - Take it off. - No! 164 00:30:32,615 --> 00:30:35,906 - Take it off! - No! And you're not the emperor anymore. 165 00:30:35,991 --> 00:30:37,865 There is a new emperor now. 166 00:30:37,949 --> 00:30:42,115 He has cut off his queue. And instead of a camel, he has got a car. 167 00:30:43,157 --> 00:30:45,073 What did you say? 168 00:30:45,157 --> 00:30:47,156 You're not the emperor. 169 00:30:51,241 --> 00:30:53,865 Liar! 170 00:30:53,949 --> 00:30:57,156 - You're not the emperor anymore! - Liar! 171 00:30:57,241 --> 00:30:59,531 - Liar! - You're not the... 172 00:31:01,615 --> 00:31:03,614 Liar! 173 00:31:03,699 --> 00:31:06,698 You're not the emperor. 174 00:31:06,782 --> 00:31:08,781 - Liar! - You're not the emperor! 175 00:31:08,866 --> 00:31:10,865 How dare you! 176 00:31:14,032 --> 00:31:16,156 You're not the emperor! 177 00:31:16,241 --> 00:31:18,656 Please. No! 178 00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:22,406 Your Majesty. Calm yourself. 179 00:31:22,490 --> 00:31:25,614 - You're not the emperor! - How dare you! 180 00:31:25,699 --> 00:31:29,322 Oh, Your Majesty. Calm yourself. 181 00:31:30,407 --> 00:31:32,865 Am I the emperor or not? 182 00:31:32,949 --> 00:31:36,406 Your Majesty will always be the emperor. 183 00:31:36,490 --> 00:31:38,447 - You see? - Prove it. 184 00:31:40,949 --> 00:31:42,948 Big Foot. 185 00:31:46,241 --> 00:31:48,447 Drink it. 186 00:31:48,532 --> 00:31:51,281 Go on. Drink the green ink. 187 00:32:09,740 --> 00:32:11,906 I will show you! 188 00:32:42,866 --> 00:32:47,239 See? That is a car. He's the president of the Republic. 189 00:33:46,991 --> 00:33:49,239 Why is this wall here, Lord Chamberlain? 190 00:33:50,407 --> 00:33:54,906 It is just a wall, Your Majesty. Nothing has changed. 191 00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:56,990 You are lying. 192 00:34:11,615 --> 00:34:15,322 High Tutor, am I still the emperor? 193 00:34:15,407 --> 00:34:19,865 You will always be the emperor inside the Forbidden City... 194 00:34:19,949 --> 00:34:22,531 but not outside. 195 00:34:22,615 --> 00:34:24,614 I do not understand. 196 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,781 Outside China is now a republic... 197 00:34:27,866 --> 00:34:29,865 with a president. 198 00:34:30,991 --> 00:34:33,197 Where is Ar Mo? 199 00:34:34,782 --> 00:34:36,781 Ar Mo. 200 00:34:58,156 --> 00:35:00,656 You are all liars! 201 00:35:07,282 --> 00:35:10,197 - Let me say good-bye! - Hurry. Hurry. 202 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:17,197 He's my child! 203 00:35:35,282 --> 00:35:37,239 Ar Mo? 204 00:35:37,323 --> 00:35:39,322 Ar Mo? 205 00:35:49,574 --> 00:35:52,239 I do not understand. 206 00:35:52,323 --> 00:35:54,447 I do not understand. 207 00:35:54,532 --> 00:35:59,239 Your Majesty is a big boy now. He cannot have a wet nurse anymore. 208 00:35:59,323 --> 00:36:01,322 It is much better like this. 209 00:36:01,407 --> 00:36:03,531 Much healthier. 210 00:36:03,615 --> 00:36:06,239 But she is not my wet nurse. 211 00:36:07,282 --> 00:36:09,906 She is my butterfly. 212 00:36:22,198 --> 00:36:24,197 Ar Mo! 213 00:36:25,949 --> 00:36:27,948 Ar Mo! 214 00:36:33,949 --> 00:36:35,948 Ar Mo! 215 00:36:37,615 --> 00:36:39,614 Ar Mo! 216 00:36:39,699 --> 00:36:41,739 Ar Mo! 217 00:36:41,824 --> 00:36:43,823 Ar Mo! 218 00:36:47,031 --> 00:36:49,030 Ar Mo! 219 00:36:53,615 --> 00:36:56,281 Ar Mo! 220 00:37:41,448 --> 00:37:44,573 This is the detention center... 221 00:37:44,657 --> 00:37:48,281 of the Fushun Bureau of Public Security. 222 00:37:48,365 --> 00:37:51,030 And I am the governor. 223 00:37:51,115 --> 00:37:54,947 During the war, this was a Japanese prison. 224 00:37:55,031 --> 00:37:57,239 Many of you may remember it... 225 00:37:57,323 --> 00:38:00,364 because you worked with the Japanese. 226 00:38:00,448 --> 00:38:02,865 You were responsible for building it... 227 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:05,698 and you filled it with innocent people. 228 00:38:05,782 --> 00:38:07,573 How could this happen? 229 00:38:07,657 --> 00:38:09,947 Why did you betray your country? 230 00:38:10,031 --> 00:38:12,573 What turned you into war criminals? 231 00:38:12,657 --> 00:38:16,531 We believe that men are born good. 232 00:38:16,615 --> 00:38:22,447 We believe that the only way to change is to discover the truth and look at it in the face. 233 00:38:23,699 --> 00:38:26,322 That is why you are here. 234 00:38:26,407 --> 00:38:30,155 You will begin by writing the story of your lives... 235 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,531 and by confessing your crimes. 236 00:38:32,615 --> 00:38:38,531 Your salvation will lie entirely in the attitude you take. 237 00:38:38,615 --> 00:38:43,030 I advise you to be frank and sincere. 238 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:48,072 Otherwise, things can still go very badly for you. 239 00:39:14,073 --> 00:39:16,030 After a few years... 240 00:39:16,115 --> 00:39:19,573 the Chinese Republic had become as corrupt as the old empire. 241 00:39:19,657 --> 00:39:25,614 It fell quickly into the hands of ambitious generals and corrupt bureaucrats. 242 00:39:25,699 --> 00:39:28,989 The era of the warlords had begun. 243 00:39:29,073 --> 00:39:34,030 By May 1919, when I received my appointment, China was in turmoil. 244 00:41:40,323 --> 00:41:42,947 May the new tutor present himself. 245 00:41:58,407 --> 00:42:01,364 Your Imperial Highness, the new tutor. 246 00:42:03,698 --> 00:42:06,531 Mr. Reginald Fleming Johnston. 247 00:42:07,698 --> 00:42:09,947 How do you do, Mr. Johnston? 248 00:42:10,031 --> 00:42:13,655 How do you do, Your Majesty? 249 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,447 Now we will go to school. 250 00:42:27,906 --> 00:42:31,030 Your Majesty, in my country, it would be usual to begin... 251 00:42:31,115 --> 00:42:33,489 with some kind of an examination. 252 00:42:34,698 --> 00:42:36,989 The emperor cannot be examined. 253 00:42:37,073 --> 00:42:39,197 Well, that may have to change. 254 00:42:39,282 --> 00:42:43,614 But first Your Majesty might like to ask me some questions. 255 00:42:47,282 --> 00:42:49,197 Where are your ancestors buried? 256 00:42:49,282 --> 00:42:51,281 In Scotland, Your Majesty. 257 00:42:53,906 --> 00:42:56,406 But then, where's your skirt? 258 00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:59,406 In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not? 259 00:42:59,490 --> 00:43:04,655 No, Your Majesty. Scotsmen do not wear skirts. They wear kilts. 260 00:43:04,739 --> 00:43:07,447 - Kilts? - Kilts. 261 00:43:07,532 --> 00:43:11,406 A matter of words, perhaps, but words are important. 262 00:43:11,490 --> 00:43:13,655 Why are words important? 263 00:43:13,739 --> 00:43:18,822 If you cannot say what you mean, Your Majesty, you will never mean what you say... 264 00:43:18,906 --> 00:43:22,905 and a gentleman should always mean what he says. 265 00:43:22,990 --> 00:43:26,697 Ah, yes. A gentleman. 266 00:43:26,781 --> 00:43:28,780 Are you a gentleman? 267 00:43:29,865 --> 00:43:33,489 I would like to be a gentleman, Your Majesty. 268 00:43:33,573 --> 00:43:36,864 - I try to be. - I am not a gentleman. 269 00:43:36,948 --> 00:43:39,072 I'm not allowed to say what I mean. 270 00:43:39,156 --> 00:43:41,613 They are always telling me what to say. 271 00:43:43,365 --> 00:43:46,281 Your Majesty is still very young. 272 00:43:48,948 --> 00:43:53,447 I thought he might like to see some English and American magazines. 273 00:43:53,532 --> 00:43:57,114 I have just received them. 274 00:44:02,323 --> 00:44:04,947 I know that you know that I know... 275 00:44:05,031 --> 00:44:07,697 that you know that that is a dialogue... 276 00:44:07,781 --> 00:44:10,364 between Confucius and Chuang-Tsu. 277 00:44:11,365 --> 00:44:15,197 Concerning respect, Your Majesty. 278 00:44:29,323 --> 00:44:31,697 Who is this George Washington? 279 00:44:31,781 --> 00:44:33,864 A famous American, Your Majesty. 280 00:44:33,948 --> 00:44:38,030 A Revolutionary general. The first American president. 281 00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:40,489 Ah. Like Mr. Lenin in Russia? 282 00:44:41,490 --> 00:44:44,114 Not quite. 283 00:44:44,198 --> 00:44:46,905 Does he have a car? 284 00:44:46,990 --> 00:44:49,947 He lived a long time ago, Your Majesty. 285 00:44:51,198 --> 00:44:53,197 I want a car. 286 00:44:58,073 --> 00:45:02,072 I think your mouse is trying to escape, Your Majesty. 287 00:45:06,031 --> 00:45:08,613 Please do not tell anyone about my mouse. 288 00:45:19,156 --> 00:45:21,780 The lesson is finished. 289 00:45:53,073 --> 00:45:56,114 The official taster's a brave man. 290 00:45:57,531 --> 00:46:00,114 Many of my ancestors have been poisoned, you know. 291 00:46:03,990 --> 00:46:07,281 Does Your Majesty have lunch like this every day? 292 00:46:07,365 --> 00:46:09,822 Ah, yes. Every day. Like theater. 293 00:46:09,906 --> 00:46:12,780 I do not know why. It has always been like that. 294 00:46:18,115 --> 00:46:20,446 How do they kill emperors in the West? 295 00:46:22,614 --> 00:46:25,488 The Austrian emperor was shot, was he not? 296 00:46:25,573 --> 00:46:29,697 No. But his nephew was assassinated before the Great War. 297 00:46:29,781 --> 00:46:33,030 But the Russian emperor has been shot. He was called a czar. 298 00:46:33,115 --> 00:46:34,738 Yes. 299 00:46:34,823 --> 00:46:37,697 He took lots of our land in Manchuria. 300 00:46:37,781 --> 00:46:41,822 I'm a Manchurian. Even after the Republic, it's still my country. 301 00:46:44,823 --> 00:46:49,488 The... secret, Your Majesty, is emerging again. 302 00:47:06,781 --> 00:47:09,281 Is something the matter, Your Majesty? 303 00:47:10,282 --> 00:47:12,947 Something is happening. 304 00:47:16,823 --> 00:47:18,864 What is happening, Mr. Johnston? 305 00:47:18,948 --> 00:47:21,030 - Nothing is... - Quiet. 306 00:48:04,614 --> 00:48:09,989 On our way here, Your Majesty, we were held up by students from the university. 307 00:48:11,031 --> 00:48:13,446 They were protesting against the Republican government... 308 00:48:13,531 --> 00:48:17,572 because it has agreed to give away Chinese territory to Japan. 309 00:48:18,865 --> 00:48:21,030 Is it true, Mr. Johnston... 310 00:48:21,115 --> 00:48:24,864 that many people out there have had their heads chopped off? 311 00:48:24,948 --> 00:48:27,738 It is true, Your Majesty. 312 00:48:27,823 --> 00:48:30,488 Many heads have been chopped off. 313 00:48:32,031 --> 00:48:34,864 It does stop them thinking. 314 00:48:34,948 --> 00:48:36,864 It's time for the emperor's rest. 315 00:48:36,948 --> 00:48:39,864 The students are right to be angry. 316 00:48:45,115 --> 00:48:47,114 I'm angry. 317 00:48:49,156 --> 00:48:51,905 But I'm not allowed to leave the Forbidden City. 318 00:48:53,781 --> 00:48:56,155 I want to go out, Mr. Johnston. 319 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,905 My lord. 320 00:48:58,990 --> 00:49:01,488 I want to see the city of sounds. 321 00:49:10,281 --> 00:49:14,613 The emperor awards you with the order of the Ruby Hat Button... 322 00:49:14,698 --> 00:49:19,321 and with the right to be carried in your own chair with four bearers. 323 00:49:55,406 --> 00:49:59,655 # Ye'll take the high road and I'll take the low road # 324 00:51:08,531 --> 00:51:10,613 I hope the emperor has not forgotten... 325 00:51:10,698 --> 00:51:13,780 that this is the day for his maths class. 326 00:51:21,447 --> 00:51:23,363 For Your Majesty. 327 00:51:23,447 --> 00:51:26,405 My doctor said bicycles are bad for you. 328 00:51:26,489 --> 00:51:28,738 Bad for you? Nonsense! 329 00:51:37,155 --> 00:51:39,154 How does it work? 330 00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,196 Oh. 331 00:51:41,281 --> 00:51:43,947 It's simple. 332 00:51:44,031 --> 00:51:47,446 Head up and eyes forward. 333 00:51:48,739 --> 00:51:50,780 As in life. 334 00:52:14,698 --> 00:52:18,280 - My mother's dead, is she not? - Yes, Your Majesty. 335 00:52:19,406 --> 00:52:21,405 I'm profoundly sorry. 336 00:52:21,489 --> 00:52:23,488 I am not. 337 00:52:27,031 --> 00:52:30,738 She killed herself. She swallowed a ball of opium. 338 00:52:32,614 --> 00:52:35,697 I'm going to see her and my brother. 339 00:54:06,322 --> 00:54:08,905 Open the door. 340 00:54:10,281 --> 00:54:12,280 Open the door! 341 00:54:24,114 --> 00:54:26,113 Open the door. 342 00:55:13,823 --> 00:55:16,238 Troublemaker! 343 00:55:16,322 --> 00:55:20,238 Devil! Meddler! 344 00:55:20,322 --> 00:55:22,863 Trouble. Nothing but trouble. 345 00:55:22,947 --> 00:55:27,655 - Look where you lead him. - And you are an old, cruel, ignorant man! 346 00:55:27,739 --> 00:55:29,738 The boy's mother is dead... 347 00:55:29,823 --> 00:55:31,738 and he's not even allowed to see her! 348 00:55:31,823 --> 00:55:33,738 I want to go out! 349 00:55:33,823 --> 00:55:35,363 I want to go out! 350 00:55:35,447 --> 00:55:37,196 Stop that! Stay where you are! 351 00:55:37,281 --> 00:55:40,071 - I want to go out! - Stop it! 352 00:55:40,155 --> 00:55:42,946 - I want to go out! - Stay where you are! You fool! 353 00:55:43,030 --> 00:55:44,446 Stay there! 354 00:55:45,656 --> 00:55:48,113 Chang. 355 00:55:48,197 --> 00:55:50,196 Hunchback. Big Foot. 356 00:56:18,155 --> 00:56:20,154 Sir. 357 00:56:21,781 --> 00:56:23,280 Give me your hand, sir. 358 00:56:27,781 --> 00:56:30,113 Give me your hand, sir. 359 00:56:37,489 --> 00:56:39,446 Can you not see? 360 00:56:54,364 --> 00:56:56,904 Look at my left ear, please, sir. 361 00:56:56,989 --> 00:57:00,863 Thank you. And now my right. 362 00:57:00,947 --> 00:57:03,238 Thank you. 363 00:57:03,322 --> 00:57:05,280 Would you follow my finger, please, sir? 364 00:57:11,656 --> 00:57:13,655 Mm-hmm. 365 00:57:13,739 --> 00:57:17,488 Well, it's perfectly simple, Johnston. The emperor needs spectacles. 366 00:57:17,573 --> 00:57:19,821 Like Harold Lloyd. 367 00:57:19,905 --> 00:57:22,113 Impossible. 368 00:57:22,197 --> 00:57:24,071 An emperor does not wear spectacles. 369 00:57:24,155 --> 00:57:27,071 That cannot be allowed. 370 00:57:27,155 --> 00:57:30,363 Times have changed, Your Highnesses. 371 00:57:45,573 --> 00:57:49,113 If His Majesty doesn't get spectacles, Johnston, he could lose his sight. 372 00:57:53,738 --> 00:57:56,321 Your Majesty. 373 00:58:13,697 --> 00:58:17,946 If the emperor does not get spectacles, I will resign. 374 00:58:18,030 --> 00:58:21,196 Unfortunately, our decision is final. 375 00:58:21,281 --> 00:58:26,863 And unfortunately, what I have to say will be published in every newspaper in China. 376 00:58:30,281 --> 00:58:32,863 What do you have to say, Mr. Johnston? 377 00:58:34,738 --> 00:58:38,946 The emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned... 378 00:58:39,030 --> 00:58:41,280 and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. 379 00:58:41,364 --> 00:58:43,530 But now he's growing up, he may wonder why... 380 00:58:43,614 --> 00:58:48,113 he is the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. 381 00:58:50,322 --> 00:58:53,696 I think the emperor is the loneliest boy on earth. 382 00:58:55,905 --> 00:58:58,530 It would be conveniently sad... 383 00:58:58,614 --> 00:59:00,904 if he becomes blind. 384 00:59:00,989 --> 00:59:03,238 Blind, Mr. Johnston? 385 00:59:04,614 --> 00:59:06,988 To the expense, Your Excellency. 386 00:59:07,072 --> 00:59:10,737 To the cost of maintaining 1,200 eunuchs... 387 00:59:10,822 --> 00:59:16,196 350 ladies-in-waiting and 185 cooks. 388 00:59:16,281 --> 00:59:21,863 To buying 120 sable furs a month and 3,000 chickens a week. 389 00:59:21,947 --> 00:59:27,029 To the fact that 840 guards and employees of the household department... 390 00:59:27,114 --> 00:59:31,238 plus one lord chamberlain care only about one thing: 391 00:59:31,322 --> 00:59:34,654 Filling their own rice bowls. 392 00:59:34,738 --> 00:59:38,363 You are very good at accounts, Mr. Johnston. 393 00:59:38,447 --> 00:59:41,405 The emperor may have abdicated... 394 00:59:41,489 --> 00:59:45,446 but he's still a symbol of great importance to many people. 395 00:59:47,239 --> 00:59:50,612 If I did not agree with that, I would not be here. 396 00:59:52,030 --> 00:59:54,113 And some of us believe... 397 00:59:54,197 --> 00:59:58,154 that one day soon he may be more than a symbol. 398 00:59:59,155 --> 01:00:01,654 The spectacles are a detail. 399 01:00:01,738 --> 01:00:05,572 What do you really want, Mr. Johnston? 400 01:00:05,655 --> 01:00:07,654 Just the spectacles. 401 01:00:10,114 --> 01:00:12,113 Oh. 402 01:00:59,447 --> 01:01:02,737 The princess Wan Jung, Your Majesty. 403 01:01:02,822 --> 01:01:04,446 Seventeen years old. 404 01:01:12,114 --> 01:01:15,446 Princess Who Jen. Fifteen years old. 405 01:01:16,613 --> 01:01:18,612 The princess Li Li, Your Majesty. 406 01:01:20,114 --> 01:01:22,280 And the Princess Fun Ying. 407 01:01:35,989 --> 01:01:38,529 Who is this? 408 01:01:38,613 --> 01:01:40,904 Princess Wen Hsiu. Twelve years old. 409 01:01:40,989 --> 01:01:43,113 She has got a funny face. 410 01:01:54,406 --> 01:01:58,321 Not just one wife. One empress and one secondary consort. 411 01:01:58,406 --> 01:02:01,696 - Two wives? - But who did you choose to be the empress? 412 01:02:01,780 --> 01:02:05,821 They chose her. She's very old, Johnston. She's 17. 413 01:02:05,905 --> 01:02:08,612 That's not so old, Your Majesty. 414 01:02:08,697 --> 01:02:11,654 - What does she look like? - Old-fashioned. 415 01:02:11,738 --> 01:02:13,779 I want a modern wife, Johnston... 416 01:02:13,864 --> 01:02:16,612 who speaks English and French. 417 01:02:18,446 --> 01:02:20,445 And who can dance the quickstep. 418 01:02:31,738 --> 01:02:33,737 Johnston. 419 01:02:35,905 --> 01:02:37,863 Sir. 420 01:02:37,947 --> 01:02:40,029 I'm going to escape, Johnston. 421 01:02:40,114 --> 01:02:43,196 I've got a suitcase and a ticket to England. 422 01:02:43,281 --> 01:02:45,654 I am going to Oxford University. 423 01:02:46,864 --> 01:02:52,779 Your Majesty, if you get married, you will become the master of your own house. 424 01:02:52,864 --> 01:02:56,612 A wedding might be a more practical way to escape. 425 01:03:31,114 --> 01:03:35,029 Why did you never get married, Johnston? 426 01:03:35,114 --> 01:03:37,113 Oh. 427 01:03:45,322 --> 01:03:48,571 The secondary consort welcomes the empress. 428 01:03:48,655 --> 01:03:52,029 The empress greets the secondary consort. 429 01:04:03,197 --> 01:04:05,238 You do everything very well. 430 01:04:05,322 --> 01:04:07,821 Thank you. I rehearsed many times. 431 01:05:06,947 --> 01:05:09,529 What is His Majesty thinking? 432 01:05:09,613 --> 01:05:14,654 I was thinking if I was a real emperor I would become the ruler of China now. 433 01:05:15,822 --> 01:05:19,445 And what would the emperor do if he could really rule? 434 01:05:19,530 --> 01:05:22,737 I would change everything, even the way we get married. 435 01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,904 Is the emperor against arranged marriages? 436 01:05:26,989 --> 01:05:29,904 It is humiliating not to choose whom you marry. 437 01:05:31,197 --> 01:05:33,362 Even I was not allowed to choose. 438 01:05:47,780 --> 01:05:51,320 In another year or two, His Majesty will be taller than me. 439 01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:55,904 Is it true the emperor has a suitcase under his bed... 440 01:05:55,989 --> 01:05:57,988 and is going to Oxford? 441 01:05:59,446 --> 01:06:01,612 Will the emperor take Wan Jung with him? 442 01:06:03,613 --> 01:06:07,029 Perhaps he would like to see my face before he decides. 443 01:06:08,822 --> 01:06:13,029 Yes. The emperor would like to see the face of the empress. 444 01:06:18,114 --> 01:06:21,362 It is the emperor who must remove the kai t'ou. 445 01:07:22,864 --> 01:07:25,612 I also had a tutor, like Mr. Johnston. 446 01:07:28,905 --> 01:07:30,904 Miss Windsor. 447 01:07:34,114 --> 01:07:36,113 She's American. 448 01:08:02,530 --> 01:08:06,195 Miss Windsor taught me how to do the dance of the quickstep. 449 01:08:08,154 --> 01:08:10,737 Does the emperor know how to do the quickstep? 450 01:08:12,154 --> 01:08:14,153 Will you teach me? 451 01:09:06,780 --> 01:09:09,029 Leave us. Leave us. 452 01:09:28,697 --> 01:09:30,988 If Your Majesty thinks... 453 01:09:31,071 --> 01:09:35,362 it is old-fashioned to make the rain and the wind with a stranger... 454 01:09:36,363 --> 01:09:38,904 we can be like a modern couple to begin with. 455 01:09:38,989 --> 01:09:40,821 A modern couple? 456 01:09:43,655 --> 01:09:46,737 - Good night. - Good night. 457 01:09:54,822 --> 01:09:57,112 You must come to Oxford with me. 458 01:10:03,238 --> 01:10:06,153 I like him. 459 01:10:06,238 --> 01:10:10,529 I am sure I am going to like him. 460 01:10:10,613 --> 01:10:12,696 And he will grow up. 461 01:10:16,029 --> 01:10:18,028 Eyes down! 462 01:10:24,363 --> 01:10:26,529 Report your arrival. 463 01:10:26,613 --> 01:10:29,237 - Prisoner 981 reporting. - Louder! 464 01:10:29,321 --> 01:10:32,279 Prisoner 981 reporting. 465 01:10:32,363 --> 01:10:34,571 Open the door. 466 01:10:40,196 --> 01:10:42,195 Close the door. 467 01:10:43,655 --> 01:10:46,237 Sit down. 468 01:10:50,613 --> 01:10:53,445 Name. 469 01:10:53,530 --> 01:10:55,487 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. 470 01:10:55,572 --> 01:10:57,571 Write it. 471 01:11:17,154 --> 01:11:19,153 Now then. 472 01:11:19,238 --> 01:11:21,445 There are two types of confession. 473 01:11:22,488 --> 01:11:25,903 We call them toothpaste and water tap. 474 01:11:26,946 --> 01:11:31,195 The toothpaste prisoner needs to be squeezed every now and then... 475 01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:33,779 or else he forgets to keep confessing. 476 01:11:35,321 --> 01:11:39,987 The water tap man needs one good, hard twist before he starts... 477 01:11:40,071 --> 01:11:42,737 but then everything comes out. 478 01:11:42,822 --> 01:11:46,153 Now, you're an intelligent person. 479 01:11:47,238 --> 01:11:49,362 I'm sure you understand me. 480 01:11:50,405 --> 01:11:52,320 Good. 481 01:11:52,405 --> 01:11:54,362 Then we'll begin. 482 01:11:55,363 --> 01:11:57,945 Why do you think you're in here, 981? 483 01:11:58,029 --> 01:12:03,945 I am accused of being a traitor, a collaborator and a counterrevolutionary. 484 01:12:04,029 --> 01:12:06,779 It is not an accusation! You are a traitor... 485 01:12:06,863 --> 01:12:10,445 you are a collaborator, and you are a counterrevolutionary! 486 01:12:17,196 --> 01:12:19,903 Did you write this? 487 01:12:19,988 --> 01:12:21,903 And you call it a confession? 488 01:12:21,988 --> 01:12:25,945 This is nothing but a list of dates. A child's fairy tale. 489 01:12:37,488 --> 01:12:40,153 - What do you want me to confess? - You know what you did... 490 01:12:40,238 --> 01:12:42,153 and what others did. 491 01:12:42,238 --> 01:12:44,445 So why don't you volunteer the information? 492 01:12:44,530 --> 01:12:46,195 I do not understand. 493 01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:49,195 We don't tell people what to confess. 494 01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,237 We already know everything about you. 495 01:12:59,780 --> 01:13:02,279 I... 496 01:13:03,488 --> 01:13:07,362 - Go on. - I wanted reforms. 497 01:13:07,446 --> 01:13:10,195 What did you want to reform? 498 01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:11,987 Everything. 499 01:13:14,154 --> 01:13:16,112 Cut off my queue. 500 01:13:16,196 --> 01:13:18,696 Your Majesty. Please. 501 01:13:54,946 --> 01:13:58,737 - It is heavy. - The emperor before me was murdered... 502 01:13:58,821 --> 01:14:01,862 because he wanted to reform the empire. 503 01:14:01,946 --> 01:14:03,862 Is that not so, Mr. Johnston? 504 01:14:03,946 --> 01:14:06,945 Yes, Your Majesty. Probably. 505 01:14:08,154 --> 01:14:12,987 Well, let us see if they will kill me for reforming the Forbidden City. 506 01:14:13,071 --> 01:14:15,487 Lord Chamberlain. 507 01:14:15,572 --> 01:14:20,487 I am appointing Mr. Johnston's friend, the poet and scholar Chen Hsiao Hsiu... 508 01:14:20,572 --> 01:14:23,028 to be the new lord chamberlain. 509 01:14:23,113 --> 01:14:27,404 I want him to supervise a detailed inventory of the imperial storerooms... 510 01:14:27,488 --> 01:14:31,945 so that we can learn exactly how much has been stolen. 511 01:14:42,154 --> 01:14:46,903 The Forbidden City had become a theater without an audience. 512 01:14:46,988 --> 01:14:50,487 So why did the actors remain on the stage? 513 01:14:51,737 --> 01:14:55,612 It was only to steal the scenery, piece by piece. 514 01:15:09,613 --> 01:15:12,612 Can I sleep here? I am frightened. 515 01:15:30,530 --> 01:15:32,695 You're brave. 516 01:15:32,779 --> 01:15:34,778 Are you not frightened? 517 01:15:35,946 --> 01:15:39,320 I am excited. I do not want to escape anymore. 518 01:15:40,737 --> 01:15:43,112 I want to rule. 519 01:15:45,737 --> 01:15:47,736 Kiss me. 520 01:16:19,154 --> 01:16:21,279 Can I stay with you as well? 521 01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,945 Get in. Get in. 522 01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,153 I used to play a game with the eunuchs. 523 01:16:52,405 --> 01:16:55,903 Trying to guess who is who. 524 01:16:57,488 --> 01:16:59,653 Now I cannot see you. 525 01:17:05,737 --> 01:17:08,195 Ah. 526 01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,195 Wan Jung? 527 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,279 Wen Hsiu? 528 01:17:14,779 --> 01:17:16,778 Come underneath the sheet with us. 529 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,778 Your Majesty. The storerooms are on fire, Your Majesty. 530 01:19:21,029 --> 01:19:23,486 The fire was a terrible disaster... 531 01:19:23,571 --> 01:19:28,444 and I knew the eunuchs had started it to stop me from knowing what they had stolen. 532 01:19:28,529 --> 01:19:33,112 There had been eunuchs in the Forbidden City for 800 years. 533 01:19:33,196 --> 01:19:35,570 There were still more than a thousand of them. 534 01:19:35,654 --> 01:19:38,028 I decided to expel them all. 535 01:19:38,113 --> 01:19:41,028 I had to ask for Republican troops to help me. 536 01:20:45,445 --> 01:20:49,486 - What are they carrying? - Their organs. 537 01:20:49,571 --> 01:20:52,070 Whatever their crimes... 538 01:20:52,154 --> 01:20:56,444 they cannot be deprived of the right to be buried as whole men. 539 01:21:52,279 --> 01:21:54,278 Well? 540 01:21:56,113 --> 01:21:58,112 Uh... 541 01:21:59,279 --> 01:22:02,195 - I have forgot what I was saying. - You are wasting our time! 542 01:22:02,279 --> 01:22:05,153 We want to know about the Japanese. 543 01:22:06,863 --> 01:22:09,237 How did your friendship with the Japanese begin? 544 01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:10,778 Who introduced you? When? 545 01:22:13,904 --> 01:22:16,237 I think it was... 546 01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:18,278 it was 1924. 547 01:22:18,362 --> 01:22:22,778 Parliament had been dissolved again. The president had fled. 548 01:22:22,863 --> 01:22:27,361 At first, I thought it was just another coup d'�tat... 549 01:22:27,445 --> 01:22:29,820 by just another warlord. 550 01:22:31,279 --> 01:22:33,862 Only this time it was different. 551 01:22:35,113 --> 01:22:37,444 This time it was my turn. 552 01:22:39,362 --> 01:22:41,778 Fifteen-love. 553 01:23:02,029 --> 01:23:04,028 Play. 554 01:23:11,195 --> 01:23:13,611 30-15. 555 01:23:44,696 --> 01:23:48,361 The rotten government of the Republic is in flight. 556 01:23:48,445 --> 01:23:51,611 Now we shall remove the foreign stench of the Manchurian rats... 557 01:23:51,696 --> 01:23:53,987 who still hide in the Forbidden City. 558 01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:08,319 "Mr. Pu Yi and his family have been given one hour... 559 01:24:08,404 --> 01:24:10,903 "to leave the Forbidden City. 560 01:24:12,737 --> 01:24:17,070 "They will be escorted to the home of his father... 561 01:24:17,153 --> 01:24:20,611 "and remain there under guard as state prisoners... 562 01:24:20,696 --> 01:24:23,112 until further notice." 563 01:24:28,696 --> 01:24:30,945 What are you all looking at? 564 01:24:31,029 --> 01:24:33,028 What are you standing there for? 565 01:24:33,112 --> 01:24:35,361 You always wanted to leave the Forbidden City. 566 01:24:35,445 --> 01:24:38,444 Now you've got an hour to pack. So go! 567 01:24:39,779 --> 01:24:41,444 Go! 568 01:24:53,904 --> 01:24:56,653 I always thought I hated it here. 569 01:24:57,779 --> 01:25:00,152 Now I'm afraid to leave. 570 01:25:00,237 --> 01:25:03,403 - Do you think they will kill me? - You must do as they say, Your Majesty... 571 01:25:03,487 --> 01:25:06,111 while I try to reach the British Embassy. 572 01:25:06,195 --> 01:25:08,528 They will give you asylum there. 573 01:25:09,612 --> 01:25:12,236 I'm sure they will. 574 01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:16,778 Chang, take my car to the south gate. I want you to drive His Majesty. 575 01:26:17,237 --> 01:26:19,486 Your Majesty! 576 01:27:06,987 --> 01:27:09,236 - Please, Your Majesty. - What? 577 01:27:56,737 --> 01:28:00,278 But you didn't go to the British Embassy, did you? 578 01:28:00,362 --> 01:28:02,444 You ended up at the Japanese Embassy. 579 01:28:02,529 --> 01:28:05,444 The Japanese were the only people prepared to help me. 580 01:28:05,529 --> 01:28:07,528 Help you for nothing? 581 01:28:09,237 --> 01:28:13,152 Japan has an emperor. We are almost the same age. 582 01:28:13,237 --> 01:28:16,361 I thought it was kindness. 583 01:28:16,445 --> 01:28:20,902 At the same time I realized that, for many Chinese, I was an alien... 584 01:28:20,987 --> 01:28:24,236 simply because I am Manchurian. 585 01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:29,528 There was even an anti-Manchurian league who wanted to assassinate me. 586 01:28:29,612 --> 01:28:32,611 So I went to live in Tientsin. 587 01:28:34,237 --> 01:28:39,194 It was a nice, provincial town with a big port. 588 01:28:39,279 --> 01:28:42,944 In those days they had a large international settlement. 589 01:28:43,028 --> 01:28:45,820 The Japanese thought it would be safer for me there. 590 01:28:45,903 --> 01:28:48,653 Were the Japanese paying for you in Tientsin? 591 01:28:48,737 --> 01:28:50,653 Oh, no. 592 01:28:50,737 --> 01:28:54,069 I had to rent a villa... the Villa Chang. 593 01:28:54,153 --> 01:28:56,361 And it was very expensive. 594 01:28:56,445 --> 01:28:58,611 So were the bodyguards. 595 01:28:59,612 --> 01:29:02,111 I spent a lot of money in Tientsin. 596 01:29:02,195 --> 01:29:06,278 Did you still believe in a restoration of the imperial system? 597 01:29:06,362 --> 01:29:09,528 Others did. The little court in exile. 598 01:29:11,028 --> 01:29:14,611 I cannot remember how much jade and jewelry they made me spend... 599 01:29:14,696 --> 01:29:19,653 to buy the friendship of some warlord or some White Russian general. 600 01:29:19,737 --> 01:29:21,570 What else did you spend your money on? 601 01:29:21,654 --> 01:29:26,361 I was never tired of buying pianos, watches, radios. 602 01:29:26,445 --> 01:29:28,736 As long as they were foreign. 603 01:29:28,820 --> 01:29:30,736 Of course. 604 01:29:30,820 --> 01:29:32,944 Anything Western was good. 605 01:29:33,028 --> 01:29:37,236 Especially Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Bayer Aspirin, and cars. 606 01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:39,653 While you were in Tientsin... 607 01:29:39,737 --> 01:29:43,528 most of China came under the control of General Chiang Kai-shek... 608 01:29:43,612 --> 01:29:45,861 the so-called nationalists... 609 01:29:45,945 --> 01:29:48,027 the Kuomintang. 610 01:29:48,112 --> 01:29:51,278 - What were your relations with them? - None. 611 01:29:53,445 --> 01:29:56,653 I felt useless in Tientsin. 612 01:29:56,737 --> 01:29:59,361 I was 21. 613 01:29:59,445 --> 01:30:02,695 I dreamt of going to the West. 614 01:30:02,778 --> 01:30:04,695 I became a playboy. 615 01:30:04,778 --> 01:30:08,944 # Am I blue # 616 01:30:09,028 --> 01:30:12,027 # Am I blue # 617 01:30:12,112 --> 01:30:15,236 # Ain't these tears in my eyes # 618 01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:18,986 # Telling you # 619 01:30:19,070 --> 01:30:21,403 # Am I blue # 620 01:30:21,487 --> 01:30:24,403 # You'd be too # 621 01:30:24,487 --> 01:30:27,570 # If each plan with your girl # 622 01:30:27,654 --> 01:30:30,444 # Done fell through # 623 01:30:31,529 --> 01:30:33,736 # Was a time # 624 01:30:33,820 --> 01:30:37,777 # I was her only one # 625 01:30:37,862 --> 01:30:40,027 # But now # 626 01:30:40,112 --> 01:30:45,403 # I'm the sad and lonely one # 627 01:30:51,070 --> 01:30:54,944 # Now she's gone and we're through # 628 01:30:55,028 --> 01:30:59,695 # Lord, I'm blue # 629 01:30:59,778 --> 01:31:01,777 Very good! 630 01:31:11,445 --> 01:31:13,444 Well done! 631 01:31:49,028 --> 01:31:51,611 That's a great ship if you're going first class. 632 01:31:54,903 --> 01:31:57,069 I am not going anywhere. 633 01:32:00,695 --> 01:32:02,570 Would you like to dance? 634 01:32:12,362 --> 01:32:16,069 You are a brave man. Nobody here would have danced with me. 635 01:32:16,153 --> 01:32:18,986 Why is that? 636 01:32:19,070 --> 01:32:20,819 Because I'm Chinese. 637 01:32:20,903 --> 01:32:23,236 Well, I'm American. 638 01:32:34,028 --> 01:32:37,278 You say California. I say French Riviera. 639 01:32:37,362 --> 01:32:39,194 San Francisco! 640 01:32:39,279 --> 01:32:41,694 Monte Carlo! 641 01:32:41,778 --> 01:32:44,278 Are we really going this time? 642 01:32:53,529 --> 01:32:55,444 Who's that couple? 643 01:32:55,529 --> 01:32:58,444 Oh. Henry and Elizabeth. 644 01:32:58,529 --> 01:33:00,444 The emperor of China? 645 01:33:00,529 --> 01:33:02,861 The ex-emperor and his wife. 646 01:33:04,695 --> 01:33:07,944 - She's beautiful. - Yes, very. 647 01:33:08,028 --> 01:33:09,944 And who are you? 648 01:33:10,028 --> 01:33:13,361 - I am His Highness's other wife. - His other wife? 649 01:33:13,445 --> 01:33:15,986 Number two wife. 650 01:33:16,070 --> 01:33:18,278 Well, some people have all the luck. 651 01:33:34,237 --> 01:33:36,152 Ladies and gentlemen! 652 01:33:39,404 --> 01:33:41,944 General Chiang Kai-shek... 653 01:33:42,028 --> 01:33:44,444 has taken Shanghai. 654 01:33:44,529 --> 01:33:47,444 The Kuomintang have broken with the Reds... 655 01:33:47,529 --> 01:33:49,444 and have knocked them for six! 656 01:33:49,529 --> 01:33:52,444 The Reds are finished! 657 01:33:57,945 --> 01:34:01,361 Sorry about the reception, everyone. We'll get it fixed in a minute. 658 01:34:01,445 --> 01:34:04,944 It would be wiser to return to the Japanese Legation now, Your Majesty. 659 01:34:05,028 --> 01:34:09,152 - Your car is waiting. - Thank you, Mr. Amakasu. 660 01:34:09,237 --> 01:34:11,236 Here we go. 661 01:34:21,862 --> 01:34:26,194 The general strike in Shanghai has collapsed. 662 01:34:26,279 --> 01:34:30,027 The international settlement is safe. 663 01:34:30,112 --> 01:34:32,027 Troops of the Kuomintang... 664 01:34:32,112 --> 01:34:34,569 are now in full control of the city... 665 01:34:34,653 --> 01:34:39,735 and firm steps are being taken to restore order in the native areas. 666 01:34:49,487 --> 01:34:52,486 Wen Hsiu, you want some gum? 667 01:34:56,279 --> 01:34:58,278 I want a divorce. 668 01:35:04,611 --> 01:35:07,152 I do not want to be your mistress any longer. 669 01:35:07,237 --> 01:35:10,152 I thought you were my secondary consort. 670 01:35:10,237 --> 01:35:14,652 In the Forbidden City, you were the emperor and I was your secondary consort. 671 01:35:15,778 --> 01:35:18,652 But now you are Henry Pu Yi. 672 01:35:18,736 --> 01:35:21,569 Wan Yung is your wife, Elizabeth. 673 01:35:23,362 --> 01:35:25,527 And who am I? 674 01:35:26,820 --> 01:35:29,569 I'm nobody. 675 01:35:38,444 --> 01:35:41,610 I did not know you were so unhappy. 676 01:35:46,112 --> 01:35:49,111 You can only have one wife in the West. 677 01:35:54,736 --> 01:35:56,652 I want a divorce. 678 01:35:56,736 --> 01:35:58,735 No one can divorce me. 679 01:36:23,028 --> 01:36:25,278 I want a divorce! 680 01:37:00,611 --> 01:37:02,610 Your Ladyship! 681 01:37:03,736 --> 01:37:05,735 Your Ladyship! 682 01:37:12,195 --> 01:37:14,194 Thank you. 683 01:37:28,486 --> 01:37:30,485 I do not need it! 684 01:37:34,653 --> 01:37:36,652 I do not need it. 685 01:38:06,028 --> 01:38:07,944 Wen Hsiu. 686 01:38:19,153 --> 01:38:21,986 Elizabeth, can I come in? 687 01:38:22,070 --> 01:38:24,360 Don't you remember me? 688 01:38:24,444 --> 01:38:27,485 I'm dressed like a pilot, but I still can't fly. Not yet. 689 01:38:27,570 --> 01:38:30,986 Eastern Jewel! We had dancing classes together. 690 01:38:31,070 --> 01:38:33,236 Yes, just before your marriage. 691 01:38:33,319 --> 01:38:36,944 You silly girl. Why do people want to get married? 692 01:38:37,028 --> 01:38:39,610 Wen Hsiu has gone. 693 01:38:39,695 --> 01:38:41,610 She will never come back. 694 01:38:41,695 --> 01:38:43,694 Is that so bad? 695 01:38:44,862 --> 01:38:47,027 She was my only friend. 696 01:38:48,195 --> 01:38:51,861 Well, at least now you've got your husband all to yourself. 697 01:38:53,528 --> 01:38:55,527 And you've got me! 698 01:38:56,945 --> 01:38:59,194 I'll be your friend. 699 01:38:59,278 --> 01:39:01,360 - You smoke opium? - Be wicked. 700 01:39:01,444 --> 01:39:03,443 It's the best in Shanghai. 701 01:39:05,028 --> 01:39:07,027 Why are you going to Europe? 702 01:39:07,112 --> 01:39:10,527 The place to go is Japan. It's more fun than anywhere. 703 01:39:11,862 --> 01:39:14,610 It's modern. 704 01:39:14,695 --> 01:39:18,485 How do you know we are going to Europe? It is a secret. 705 01:39:18,570 --> 01:39:20,777 Oh, I know everything. 706 01:39:20,862 --> 01:39:24,944 I know Chiang Kai-shek has got false teeth. 707 01:39:25,028 --> 01:39:28,027 I even know his nickname... "Cash My Check!" 708 01:39:31,903 --> 01:39:34,527 I'm a spy... 709 01:39:34,611 --> 01:39:36,819 and I don't care who knows it. 710 01:39:36,903 --> 01:39:40,569 - A spy? - I work for the Japanese Special Service Bureau. 711 01:39:40,653 --> 01:39:43,152 And I've come to protect you. 712 01:39:44,153 --> 01:39:46,694 The Japanese... 713 01:39:46,778 --> 01:39:49,861 They are getting closer to him every day. 714 01:39:50,945 --> 01:39:55,318 He is sending his brother to the military academy in Tokyo. 715 01:39:55,403 --> 01:39:58,610 They talk to him about Manchuria all the time. 716 01:39:59,736 --> 01:40:02,652 And Mr. Amakasu never says hello to me. 717 01:40:02,736 --> 01:40:04,652 I do not trust the Japanese. 718 01:40:16,361 --> 01:40:19,277 Of course, I'd love to be the emperor's new secondary consort. 719 01:40:19,361 --> 01:40:22,986 - Eastern Jewel. - If the post is available. 720 01:40:41,486 --> 01:40:44,485 The post is vacant, my dear cousin. 721 01:40:46,278 --> 01:40:48,777 But you do not fit the part. 722 01:40:51,528 --> 01:40:54,443 Wen Hsiu left the dog behind. Do you want it? 723 01:40:56,528 --> 01:40:58,861 It is my fault. 724 01:40:58,945 --> 01:41:01,193 It is all my fault. 725 01:41:33,570 --> 01:41:36,069 I came to see you, Your Majesty... 726 01:41:36,152 --> 01:41:38,151 to give you bad news. 727 01:41:39,444 --> 01:41:41,610 Something terrible has happened. 728 01:41:47,444 --> 01:41:50,360 The imperial tombs of our Manchurian ancestors... 729 01:41:50,444 --> 01:41:53,151 have been attacked and robbed... 730 01:41:53,236 --> 01:41:56,360 by troops of the Kuomintang. 731 01:41:56,444 --> 01:41:58,819 Chinese soldiers. 732 01:41:58,903 --> 01:42:01,068 A warlord working for Chiang Kai-shek. 733 01:42:04,903 --> 01:42:08,318 The body of the Empress Dowager... 734 01:42:08,403 --> 01:42:10,402 was hacked to pieces. 735 01:42:12,403 --> 01:42:16,694 Her pearl necklace has become a wedding present from Chiang Kai-shek... 736 01:42:16,778 --> 01:42:18,777 to his new wife. 737 01:42:40,528 --> 01:42:43,318 Tell me, 981, do you consider yourself to be Chinese? 738 01:42:43,403 --> 01:42:45,318 Of course. 739 01:42:45,403 --> 01:42:47,318 - What is this? - Japan. 740 01:42:47,403 --> 01:42:50,193 - And what do you call this part of China? - The northeast. 741 01:42:50,278 --> 01:42:53,527 - And what did you call it as a child? - Manchuria. 742 01:42:53,611 --> 01:42:57,652 Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931 ... 743 01:42:57,736 --> 01:43:00,652 and began to set up a puppet state called Manchukuo. 744 01:43:00,736 --> 01:43:04,944 Shortly afterwards, a Japanese delegation paid you a secret visit in Tientsin... 745 01:43:05,027 --> 01:43:06,944 to request your collaboration. 746 01:43:07,027 --> 01:43:08,944 Would you say you refused? 747 01:43:09,027 --> 01:43:11,527 - Speak up! - I already told you. 748 01:43:11,611 --> 01:43:14,861 - I have told you a hundred times. - Tell us again. Tell us 200 times. 749 01:43:14,945 --> 01:43:16,861 I refused to collaborate. 750 01:43:16,945 --> 01:43:18,861 You say you refused. 751 01:43:18,945 --> 01:43:24,235 But a month later, on November 10, 1931, there you are arriving in Manchuria. 752 01:43:24,319 --> 01:43:26,527 Or should I call it Manchukuo? 753 01:43:26,611 --> 01:43:30,026 Now, according to this so-called confession of yours... 754 01:43:30,111 --> 01:43:32,026 you didn't go of your own free will. 755 01:43:32,111 --> 01:43:34,443 You insist that you were kidnapped by the Japanese! 756 01:43:34,528 --> 01:43:36,569 - Yes. - And taken to Manchuria by force. 757 01:43:36,653 --> 01:43:39,235 - Yes! - Sit down. 758 01:43:42,319 --> 01:43:46,402 Do you remember a man called Reginald Fleming Johnston? 759 01:43:47,736 --> 01:43:50,151 He was your tutor. 760 01:43:50,236 --> 01:43:52,151 Yes. 761 01:43:52,236 --> 01:43:54,735 And a good friend, I believe. 762 01:43:56,611 --> 01:43:59,318 After 28 years in China... 763 01:43:59,403 --> 01:44:02,360 Mr. Johnston returned to England. 764 01:44:02,444 --> 01:44:07,235 He became a professor of Oriental Studies at London University... 765 01:44:08,278 --> 01:44:10,610 and he wrote a book. 766 01:44:10,695 --> 01:44:13,777 It is called Twilight in the Forbidden City... 767 01:44:13,862 --> 01:44:16,360 and it is dedicated to you. 768 01:44:32,027 --> 01:44:33,943 Bye now! 769 01:44:34,027 --> 01:44:35,943 - Bye! - Good-bye! 770 01:44:36,027 --> 01:44:38,777 - Don't forget to write! - Bye, Mom! 771 01:44:44,027 --> 01:44:47,151 I am going to miss you, Johnston. 772 01:44:47,236 --> 01:44:50,151 I shall miss you, Your Majesty. 773 01:44:53,570 --> 01:44:57,861 Do you think a man can become emperor again? 774 01:44:57,944 --> 01:44:59,485 Yes. 775 01:45:18,278 --> 01:45:20,485 Thank you, Your Majesty. 776 01:45:22,444 --> 01:45:26,318 All aboard! All aboard! All aboard! 777 01:45:26,403 --> 01:45:28,402 How can we say good-bye? 778 01:45:30,111 --> 01:45:32,110 As we said hello. 779 01:45:44,486 --> 01:45:46,735 Farewell, Mr. Johnston. 780 01:45:46,820 --> 01:45:48,819 Farewell, Your Majesty. 781 01:45:54,778 --> 01:45:58,943 All aboard! All aboard! 782 01:45:59,027 --> 01:46:00,943 Thank you. 783 01:46:01,027 --> 01:46:03,026 Thank you. 784 01:46:04,236 --> 01:46:06,151 - All aboard! - All aboard! 785 01:46:10,111 --> 01:46:12,110 All aboard now! 786 01:46:13,902 --> 01:46:16,652 All aboard! 787 01:46:22,819 --> 01:46:26,360 All aboard! 788 01:46:36,027 --> 01:46:38,110 Good-bye, Mr. Johnston! 789 01:46:38,194 --> 01:46:41,277 We'll never forget you, Mr. Johnston! 790 01:46:41,361 --> 01:46:45,026 Good-bye! Mr. Johnston, good-bye! 791 01:46:45,111 --> 01:46:47,569 - Good-bye! - All aboard! 792 01:46:50,403 --> 01:46:55,068 On page 449... 793 01:46:55,152 --> 01:46:57,068 Mr. Johnston writes: 794 01:46:57,152 --> 01:47:02,735 "The endeavor to make out that the emperor had been kidnapped by the Japanese... 795 01:47:02,819 --> 01:47:05,068 "is wholly untrue. 796 01:47:06,444 --> 01:47:09,026 "He left Tientsin and went to Manchuria... 797 01:47:09,111 --> 01:47:11,026 of his own free will." 798 01:47:11,111 --> 01:47:13,943 - Johnston was a liar. - What did you say? 799 01:47:14,027 --> 01:47:18,277 Mr. Johnston had left before I was taken to Manchuria. 800 01:47:18,361 --> 01:47:20,735 He could not have known what happened. 801 01:47:37,486 --> 01:47:39,485 Sit down. 802 01:47:46,403 --> 01:47:50,985 According to this account, you prepared the man's things on the morning of November 9. 803 01:47:51,069 --> 01:47:53,235 Isn't it unusual for a man who is kidnapped... 804 01:47:53,319 --> 01:47:56,443 to have his luggage packed by his valet the day before he is kidnapped? 805 01:47:56,528 --> 01:48:00,277 This is what you have written, isn't it? Who told you to pack this man's luggage? 806 01:48:03,861 --> 01:48:06,485 These two stories don't fit, do they? 807 01:48:08,528 --> 01:48:11,193 It was a long time ago. 808 01:48:11,278 --> 01:48:13,360 Perhaps I made a mistake. 809 01:48:13,444 --> 01:48:16,318 You are lying! You are both lying! 810 01:48:17,194 --> 01:48:19,193 Control yourself! 811 01:48:25,528 --> 01:48:27,693 You can still change your mind. 812 01:48:32,902 --> 01:48:37,901 I am the hereditary ruler of the Manchurian people. 813 01:48:39,819 --> 01:48:44,193 There can be no Manchukuo without me. 814 01:48:44,278 --> 01:48:47,776 Do you not see? The Japanese are using you. 815 01:48:48,777 --> 01:48:51,527 I must try to use them. 816 01:48:51,611 --> 01:48:55,485 The Japanese invasion of Manchuria will be condemned by the League of Nations... 817 01:48:55,570 --> 01:48:57,734 and by every civilized country on Earth. 818 01:48:57,819 --> 01:49:01,318 The Chinese Republic has broken every promise it ever made to me. 819 01:49:01,403 --> 01:49:04,985 Chinese troops desecrated the tombs of my ancestors. 820 01:49:05,069 --> 01:49:08,277 And Chinese troops did not defend Manchuria from the Japanese. 821 01:49:08,361 --> 01:49:11,110 But Manchuria is still China! 822 01:49:11,194 --> 01:49:14,860 - China has turned its back on me. - Please, do not go. 823 01:49:14,944 --> 01:49:18,277 Manchuria is the richest frontier in Asia. 824 01:49:18,361 --> 01:49:20,985 Coal, oil, railways! 825 01:49:21,069 --> 01:49:24,026 Millions of Chinese immigrants are going there every year. 826 01:49:24,111 --> 01:49:26,026 I'm going to build my country. 827 01:49:26,111 --> 01:49:29,527 Johnston was wrong, but he wasn't a liar. 828 01:49:29,610 --> 01:49:32,068 There was no kidnapping. 829 01:49:32,152 --> 01:49:37,068 You went to Manchuria by your own choice because you wanted to be emperor again! 830 01:49:53,152 --> 01:49:56,151 These might help you to remember the truth. 831 01:51:34,861 --> 01:51:36,860 To heaven. 832 01:51:43,361 --> 01:51:46,277 To earth. 833 01:51:46,361 --> 01:51:48,443 To the moon. 834 01:51:51,319 --> 01:51:53,776 To the sun. 835 01:52:10,444 --> 01:52:12,443 You're an empress again. 836 01:52:13,944 --> 01:52:16,443 What I'm going to be is a pilot. 837 01:52:16,527 --> 01:52:20,693 I'm going to train at a secret base near Yokohama to learn precision bombing. 838 01:52:21,986 --> 01:52:24,402 I want to bomb Shanghai. 839 01:52:25,652 --> 01:52:27,901 Bomb Shanghai? 840 01:52:27,986 --> 01:52:29,985 I hate China. 841 01:52:36,069 --> 01:52:38,068 I hate you. 842 01:53:57,402 --> 01:54:01,734 The Japanese army high command. Very impressive! 843 01:54:02,861 --> 01:54:05,609 The Japanese army! 844 01:54:14,069 --> 01:54:16,068 Quickly! 845 01:54:34,485 --> 01:54:36,901 On behalf of the emperor of Japan... 846 01:54:36,986 --> 01:54:42,026 the commander of the Kwangtung Army extends his warmest congratulations... 847 01:54:42,111 --> 01:54:45,609 on the occasion of His Majesty's coronation. 848 01:55:27,777 --> 01:55:29,693 Ah, yes. 849 01:55:33,527 --> 01:55:36,442 Manchukuo will grow into a great nation. 850 01:55:36,527 --> 01:55:39,859 Japan will always be at her side to help her. 851 01:56:41,069 --> 01:56:43,776 Uh, may I introduce you? 852 01:56:43,860 --> 01:56:47,151 My wife, the Princess Hiro Saga. 853 01:56:47,235 --> 01:56:49,442 Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu. 854 01:56:54,443 --> 01:56:57,568 The Honorable Chang Chinghui, Minister of Defense. 855 01:56:59,652 --> 01:57:02,818 The Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Colonna. 856 01:57:17,235 --> 01:57:20,943 The empress and I accept with great pleasure... 857 01:57:27,944 --> 01:57:30,026 Excuse me, General. 858 01:57:52,902 --> 01:57:56,150 Ah, and our Mr. Amakasu... 859 01:57:56,235 --> 01:58:00,401 is the new chief of the Manchurian Motion Picture Studios. 860 01:58:09,735 --> 01:58:13,109 Why do you have to spoil this day? 861 01:58:13,193 --> 01:58:15,192 Why? 862 01:58:16,735 --> 01:58:21,693 Mr. Amakasu is the most powerful man in Manchukuo. 863 01:58:21,777 --> 01:58:24,026 What are you talking about? 864 01:58:25,069 --> 01:58:29,442 You did not believe I could be emperor again, but I am. 865 01:58:29,527 --> 01:58:31,526 You are blind. 866 01:58:41,235 --> 01:58:45,150 Do you know what it means to be an empress? You are an empress. 867 01:58:49,318 --> 01:58:51,484 Why do you not make love to me anymore? 868 01:58:51,569 --> 01:58:53,526 Because you have become an opium addict. 869 01:58:55,277 --> 01:58:58,568 Opium killed my mother. Opium destroyed China. 870 01:58:58,652 --> 01:59:01,192 You can buy opium anywhere in Manchukuo. 871 01:59:01,277 --> 01:59:03,192 - Shut up. - In any shop. 872 01:59:03,277 --> 01:59:05,568 Shut up! 873 01:59:07,986 --> 01:59:10,442 Your brother is going to have a child. 874 01:59:13,026 --> 01:59:15,025 We must have a child. 875 01:59:16,193 --> 01:59:18,776 You must have an heir. 876 01:59:20,193 --> 01:59:24,109 Emperor Hirohito has officially invited us to Japan. 877 01:59:25,569 --> 01:59:27,609 I'm going alone. 878 01:59:27,694 --> 01:59:30,067 You are staying here. 879 01:59:30,151 --> 01:59:32,484 I will never go to Japan. 880 01:59:32,569 --> 01:59:34,568 Then go to your room. 881 01:59:41,527 --> 01:59:44,526 Ten thousand years to His Majesty the Emperor! 882 01:59:46,360 --> 01:59:48,734 - Ten thousand years! - Ten thousand years! 883 01:59:48,819 --> 01:59:53,317 Ten thousand years to His Majesty, the Emperor! 884 01:59:53,402 --> 01:59:56,609 Ten thousand years! 885 02:00:01,235 --> 02:00:03,150 Ten thousand years! 886 02:00:08,318 --> 02:00:13,025 Ten thousand years! Ten thousand years! 887 02:00:58,151 --> 02:01:01,150 I told you I hate you. 888 02:01:03,652 --> 02:01:06,651 Only because I give you what you need. 889 02:01:41,026 --> 02:01:42,942 Now we're engaged. 890 02:02:39,193 --> 02:02:42,192 - You forgot my tooth powder. - Oh. 891 02:02:42,277 --> 02:02:44,276 Yes, sir. 892 02:03:02,901 --> 02:03:04,900 Move him. 893 02:03:09,402 --> 02:03:11,609 981, collect your things. 894 02:03:21,485 --> 02:03:23,484 Upstairs! 895 02:03:27,652 --> 02:03:29,651 Stop. 896 02:03:37,360 --> 02:03:40,317 Your laces are undone. Do them up. 897 02:03:40,402 --> 02:03:43,693 Thursday you serve lunch. Friday you clean the toilet. 898 02:03:43,776 --> 02:03:45,942 Saturday you sweep the floor. 899 02:04:13,569 --> 02:04:16,651 I have never been separated from my family. 900 02:04:16,734 --> 02:04:18,900 You'd better get used to it. 901 02:04:23,818 --> 02:04:26,234 You do not remember me, do you? 902 02:04:26,318 --> 02:04:29,858 I was the minister of trade in Manchukuo. 903 02:04:33,901 --> 02:04:36,067 You were all in Manchukuo. 904 02:04:38,068 --> 02:04:39,984 Now I am the cell leader. 905 02:04:40,068 --> 02:04:44,526 It is important to follow the rules here. No talking during study sessions. 906 02:05:37,818 --> 02:05:39,733 Where is your gun, Captain? 907 02:05:39,818 --> 02:05:41,733 Where are their swords? 908 02:05:41,818 --> 02:05:44,317 Our weapons have been removed, Your Majesty... 909 02:05:44,402 --> 02:05:47,067 on the orders of Colonel Yoshioka. 910 02:05:47,151 --> 02:05:49,442 Colonel Yoshioka? 911 02:05:50,943 --> 02:05:54,317 - Colonel Yoshioka. - What has happened here? 912 02:05:54,402 --> 02:05:56,609 Why has my guard been disarmed? 913 02:05:56,693 --> 02:05:59,192 Yes, it is very unfortunate, Your Majesty. 914 02:05:59,277 --> 02:06:02,192 There have been many changes while you were in Tokyo. 915 02:06:02,277 --> 02:06:05,942 Your Majesty, may I present Masaomi Kobayakawa... 916 02:06:06,026 --> 02:06:09,900 the new Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo. 917 02:06:35,901 --> 02:06:39,025 Why is Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu not here to receive me? 918 02:06:39,110 --> 02:06:42,359 The prime minister has resigned, Your Majesty. 919 02:06:42,443 --> 02:06:44,858 His son has been assassinated. 920 02:06:44,943 --> 02:06:46,858 Assassinated? 921 02:06:46,943 --> 02:06:50,067 By Communist bandits, Your Majesty. 922 02:06:56,651 --> 02:06:58,817 I must see him at once. 923 02:06:58,901 --> 02:07:01,775 He refuses to see anyone, Your Majesty. 924 02:07:01,859 --> 02:07:04,317 He has gone to a monastery... 925 02:07:04,402 --> 02:07:06,608 far away. 926 02:07:13,734 --> 02:07:16,234 Who are you? 927 02:07:16,318 --> 02:07:18,984 Chang Chinghui, Your Majesty... 928 02:07:19,068 --> 02:07:21,484 Minister of Defense. 929 02:07:22,651 --> 02:07:24,650 Yes. 930 02:07:26,318 --> 02:07:28,317 Of course. 931 02:07:30,110 --> 02:07:33,359 The council meeting will be at 4:00, Your Majesty... 932 02:07:33,443 --> 02:07:35,733 before the state dinner. 933 02:07:46,609 --> 02:07:51,150 "The emperor has been asked to sign the following. 934 02:07:51,235 --> 02:07:53,150 "After careful consideration... 935 02:07:53,235 --> 02:07:56,733 "we have decided to nominate the Honorable Chang Chinghui... 936 02:07:56,818 --> 02:08:00,317 as the new prime minister of Manchukuo." 937 02:08:05,776 --> 02:08:07,692 No. 938 02:08:07,776 --> 02:08:10,192 Today, on our return from Japan... 939 02:08:10,277 --> 02:08:13,984 we wish to speak of something more important... 940 02:08:14,068 --> 02:08:17,317 the future of our friendship with Japan. 941 02:08:18,402 --> 02:08:21,900 This is based on mutual respect. 942 02:08:21,985 --> 02:08:25,608 And respect means equality and independence. 943 02:08:25,693 --> 02:08:31,150 When the two emperors stood together and saluted the two national flags... 944 02:08:31,235 --> 02:08:34,483 they recognized that Manchukuo had come of age. 945 02:08:34,568 --> 02:08:37,942 Manchukuo is not a colony. Manchukuo is Manchuria. 946 02:08:41,859 --> 02:08:44,192 The relationship between our two countries... 947 02:08:44,277 --> 02:08:47,192 is like the relationship between its two emperors. 948 02:08:47,277 --> 02:08:49,692 It is rooted in fraternal trust... 949 02:08:49,776 --> 02:08:51,692 in... 950 02:08:51,776 --> 02:08:56,025 in the desire to preserve our ancient traditions... 951 02:08:56,110 --> 02:08:59,900 and in a mutual respect for our national identities! 952 02:09:01,277 --> 02:09:04,192 Already we have welcomed the ambassadors... 953 02:09:04,277 --> 02:09:08,401 of El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Vatican. 954 02:09:10,068 --> 02:09:13,692 Soon, I'm ... I'm sure the other countries will follow. 955 02:09:32,734 --> 02:09:35,733 I'm going to have a child. 956 02:09:39,068 --> 02:09:41,067 The father is Manchurian. 957 02:09:46,568 --> 02:09:48,483 Colonel Yoshioka and Mr. Amakasu! 958 02:09:48,568 --> 02:09:50,567 I did it for you. 959 02:10:13,110 --> 02:10:16,817 His Majesty forgot to sign the appointment of the new prime minister... 960 02:10:16,901 --> 02:10:19,067 Mr. Chang Chinghui. 961 02:10:20,110 --> 02:10:22,109 I did not forget. 962 02:10:28,985 --> 02:10:31,150 When an Englishman robs someone, Your Majesty... 963 02:10:31,235 --> 02:10:33,441 he becomes a gentleman. 964 02:10:33,526 --> 02:10:37,276 If he robs a lot, he becomes a knight. 965 02:10:37,359 --> 02:10:41,692 Do you imagine the British run their empire as a charity? 966 02:10:41,776 --> 02:10:46,525 If India has paid for the cost of its own occupation... 967 02:10:46,609 --> 02:10:48,900 so must Manchukuo! 968 02:11:02,776 --> 02:11:06,109 We hope Manchukuo will have an heir. 969 02:11:08,776 --> 02:11:10,817 The empress is expecting a child. 970 02:11:10,901 --> 02:11:14,316 Yes, Your Majesty. We are aware of the situation. 971 02:11:20,693 --> 02:11:23,192 This is the name of the father. 972 02:11:31,693 --> 02:11:34,316 His name is Chang. 973 02:11:34,401 --> 02:11:36,400 He is your driver. 974 02:11:55,151 --> 02:11:58,275 All the necessary facts have been recorded. 975 02:11:58,359 --> 02:12:00,942 The man will be punished. 976 02:12:01,026 --> 02:12:05,067 The emperor cannot allow his honor to be stained. 977 02:12:21,401 --> 02:12:25,817 The Japanese are the only divine race on earth. 978 02:12:25,901 --> 02:12:30,608 We will take China, Hong Kong, Indochina... 979 02:12:30,693 --> 02:12:33,025 Siam, Malaya... 980 02:12:33,110 --> 02:12:36,192 Singapore and India! 981 02:12:36,276 --> 02:12:38,692 Asia belongs to us! 982 02:13:10,151 --> 02:13:13,150 There have been complaints from your cell mates. 983 02:13:13,234 --> 02:13:17,483 You must learn how to urinate at night without waking them all up. 984 02:13:19,359 --> 02:13:24,275 The way to do it is to urinate against the side of the bucket... 985 02:13:24,359 --> 02:13:26,275 not into the middle. 986 02:13:26,359 --> 02:13:28,358 Yes, comrade. 987 02:13:42,734 --> 02:13:45,733 You still think I am your servant, don't you? 988 02:14:08,568 --> 02:14:10,984 You are all pretending. 989 02:14:11,068 --> 02:14:13,483 You are just pretending you have changed. 990 02:14:13,568 --> 02:14:17,650 Shut up! The party teaches us to be new men while working for a new China! 991 02:14:17,734 --> 02:14:20,441 You worked in Amakasu's private office. 992 02:14:20,526 --> 02:14:24,525 You are still the same people. People do not change. 993 02:14:24,609 --> 02:14:26,817 Guard! Guard! 994 02:14:33,359 --> 02:14:35,275 Guard! 995 02:14:35,359 --> 02:14:38,067 - I let it happen. - Guard! 996 02:14:38,150 --> 02:14:41,149 - Guard! - I let it happen. 997 02:14:52,234 --> 02:14:54,233 Ohh! 998 02:15:17,317 --> 02:15:19,733 The second edict, Your Majesty. 999 02:15:19,818 --> 02:15:23,650 Japanese will be the official language in Manchukuo schools. 1000 02:15:34,734 --> 02:15:37,775 Your Majesty! 1001 02:15:42,609 --> 02:15:44,525 The baby was born dead, Your Majesty. 1002 02:15:44,609 --> 02:15:46,858 How is the empress? 1003 02:15:46,943 --> 02:15:49,900 It will be better if she goes to a clinic. Somewhere warm. 1004 02:15:53,818 --> 02:15:56,400 She's already left, Your Majesty. 1005 02:16:48,234 --> 02:16:50,733 Open the door. 1006 02:17:50,234 --> 02:17:53,108 With Manchukuo now firmly in their grasp... 1007 02:17:53,192 --> 02:17:56,858 the Japanese soon controlled most of North China. 1008 02:17:56,942 --> 02:18:00,316 By 1937 they were ready to strike south... 1009 02:18:00,401 --> 02:18:03,108 at the heart of the country. 1010 02:18:03,192 --> 02:18:07,899 The attack on Shanghai was one of the first civilian bombing raids in history. 1011 02:18:08,900 --> 02:18:12,316 It left thousands homeless, thousands dead. 1012 02:18:18,276 --> 02:18:24,024 Three months later, Japanese armies were besieging the provisional capital at Nanking... 1013 02:18:24,109 --> 02:18:27,733 and when the city fell the atrocities began. 1014 02:18:29,401 --> 02:18:33,608 Trying to terrorize the rest of China into surrender... 1015 02:18:33,693 --> 02:18:36,567 the Japanese high command ordered a massacre. 1016 02:18:36,651 --> 02:18:41,233 More than 200,000 civilians were systematically executed. 1017 02:18:41,317 --> 02:18:44,275 The world watched in horror... 1018 02:18:44,359 --> 02:18:46,525 but no help was given. 1019 02:18:46,609 --> 02:18:49,941 On December 7, 1941 ... 1020 02:18:50,025 --> 02:18:54,316 Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. 1021 02:18:54,401 --> 02:18:56,233 There was no warning. 1022 02:18:57,276 --> 02:19:01,066 Manchukuo, the Japanese bastion in North China... 1023 02:19:01,150 --> 02:19:04,608 was still ruled by the puppet emperor Pu Yi. 1024 02:19:06,359 --> 02:19:08,899 But behind the facade of triumph... 1025 02:19:08,984 --> 02:19:12,400 was a country enslaved... 1026 02:19:12,484 --> 02:19:16,983 a country where Japanese experiments in biological warfare... 1027 02:19:17,067 --> 02:19:21,024 were carried out on live human beings... 1028 02:19:21,109 --> 02:19:26,567 a country where opium production became the easiest way to finance the war. 1029 02:19:28,359 --> 02:19:32,191 Millions of people were deliberately turned into drug addicts. 1030 02:19:57,317 --> 02:20:01,483 Nine days after the bomb at Hiroshima... 1031 02:20:01,568 --> 02:20:04,941 on August 15, 1945... 1032 02:20:05,025 --> 02:20:08,857 Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan. 1033 02:20:09,900 --> 02:20:14,024 It was the first time his voice had ever been heard on radio. 1034 02:20:58,526 --> 02:21:00,941 You must get to Tokyo, Your Majesty. 1035 02:21:01,025 --> 02:21:03,650 You must surrender to the Americans, not the Russians. 1036 02:21:03,733 --> 02:21:06,233 The Communists will kill everyone. 1037 02:21:51,609 --> 02:21:54,149 The empress has returned. 1038 02:22:01,401 --> 02:22:03,899 Majesty, please. 1039 02:22:09,025 --> 02:22:11,024 Your Majesty! 1040 02:23:03,984 --> 02:23:06,941 Hurry! There is no room on the plane, Your Majesty! 1041 02:23:07,025 --> 02:23:10,525 The women are not in danger! We must hurry! 1042 02:24:06,733 --> 02:24:09,941 Your Majesty! Your Majesty is leaving now! 1043 02:24:10,025 --> 02:24:12,024 Now! 1044 02:24:47,484 --> 02:24:49,483 The Russians! 1045 02:25:27,608 --> 02:25:32,316 Perhaps you think we are here to teach men to lie in a new way. 1046 02:25:32,401 --> 02:25:35,774 Why did you sign every accusation made against you? 1047 02:25:35,858 --> 02:25:39,524 I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this... 1048 02:25:40,525 --> 02:25:45,191 someone who signs anything to please his enemies, to please me! 1049 02:25:45,276 --> 02:25:48,524 You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo... 1050 02:25:48,608 --> 02:25:50,857 even the secret agreement... 1051 02:25:50,942 --> 02:25:52,857 but you couldn't possibly have known... 1052 02:25:52,942 --> 02:25:56,566 about the Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin. 1053 02:25:56,650 --> 02:25:58,649 Could you? 1054 02:25:59,984 --> 02:26:03,316 So why did you sign these papers? 1055 02:26:07,401 --> 02:26:09,816 I was responsible for everything. 1056 02:26:09,900 --> 02:26:12,566 You are responsible for what you do! 1057 02:26:13,817 --> 02:26:16,899 All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. 1058 02:26:16,984 --> 02:26:19,983 Now you think you are the worst of all! 1059 02:26:25,858 --> 02:26:28,191 Why can you not leave me alone? 1060 02:26:30,525 --> 02:26:34,816 You saved my life to make me a puppet in your own play. 1061 02:26:34,900 --> 02:26:37,816 You saved me because I am useful to you. 1062 02:26:37,900 --> 02:26:40,983 Is that so terrible... 1063 02:26:41,067 --> 02:26:43,316 to be useful? 1064 02:27:15,733 --> 02:27:17,440 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. 1065 02:27:22,358 --> 02:27:27,399 By order of the Supreme People's Court... 1066 02:27:27,483 --> 02:27:31,732 the war criminal Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi... 1067 02:27:31,817 --> 02:27:35,233 male, 53 years old... 1068 02:27:35,317 --> 02:27:37,816 of the Manchu nationality... 1069 02:27:37,900 --> 02:27:39,816 and from Peking... 1070 02:27:39,900 --> 02:27:42,857 has now served 10 years' detention. 1071 02:27:42,942 --> 02:27:47,983 As a result of remolding through labor... 1072 02:27:48,067 --> 02:27:52,649 and ideological education during his captivity... 1073 02:27:52,733 --> 02:27:56,149 he has shown that he has genuinely reformed. 1074 02:27:56,234 --> 02:28:01,816 In accordance with clause one of the Special Pardon Order... 1075 02:28:01,900 --> 02:28:05,941 he is therefore to be released. 1076 02:28:16,984 --> 02:28:18,899 You see? 1077 02:28:18,984 --> 02:28:23,024 I will end up living in prison longer than you. 1078 02:30:55,650 --> 02:30:59,148 The Red Guards. 1079 02:31:04,942 --> 02:31:06,941 They are so young. 1080 02:31:08,275 --> 02:31:10,357 It is dangerous. 1081 02:31:16,567 --> 02:31:18,315 Look. 1082 02:31:18,400 --> 02:31:21,399 Over there. Pu Chieh, look! 1083 02:31:24,817 --> 02:31:27,649 It is the governor of our prison! 1084 02:31:27,733 --> 02:31:29,649 - It cannot be. - It is! 1085 02:31:29,733 --> 02:31:31,649 I'm sure it is! 1086 02:31:34,149 --> 02:31:36,148 Be careful. 1087 02:31:37,441 --> 02:31:40,107 Come back! 1088 02:32:23,525 --> 02:32:26,566 Comrade, this must be a mistake. 1089 02:32:26,650 --> 02:32:28,941 I know this man. He is a good man. 1090 02:32:29,025 --> 02:32:31,941 - Who are you? - I am a gardener. 1091 02:32:32,025 --> 02:32:35,023 Join us, comrade, or fuck off! 1092 02:32:44,233 --> 02:32:46,148 But what has he done? 1093 02:32:46,233 --> 02:32:48,732 - He has been accused. - Accused of what? 1094 02:32:48,817 --> 02:32:50,774 - Emperor's lackey! - Revisionist element! 1095 02:32:50,858 --> 02:32:52,983 Rotten rightist! 1096 02:32:53,066 --> 02:32:55,983 - Confess your crime. - I have nothing to confess. 1097 02:32:56,066 --> 02:32:57,816 Kowtow to Chairman Mao. 1098 02:33:01,733 --> 02:33:04,691 - Confess your crimes. - I have nothing to confess. 1099 02:33:04,775 --> 02:33:06,524 Kowtow! 1100 02:33:09,858 --> 02:33:12,482 - Confess your crimes! - Wait! 1101 02:33:12,567 --> 02:33:15,482 He's a teacher! He is a good teacher! 1102 02:33:15,567 --> 02:33:18,899 - You... You cannot do this to him! - Move! Move! 1103 02:33:18,983 --> 02:33:21,982 You are wrong! He is a good teacher! 1104 02:36:23,400 --> 02:36:26,315 Stop! 1105 02:36:26,400 --> 02:36:30,023 You are not allowed in there! 1106 02:36:33,400 --> 02:36:35,315 - Who are you? - I live here. 1107 02:36:35,400 --> 02:36:37,315 I am the son of the guardian. 1108 02:36:37,400 --> 02:36:40,023 Ah, well, I used to live here too. 1109 02:36:40,108 --> 02:36:44,023 - That is where I sat. - Who are you? 1110 02:36:44,108 --> 02:36:46,898 I was the emperor of China. 1111 02:36:46,983 --> 02:36:48,982 Prove it! 1112 02:38:28,066 --> 02:38:30,482 This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony... 1113 02:38:30,567 --> 02:38:32,482 where the emperors were crowned. 1114 02:38:32,567 --> 02:38:36,482 The last emperor to be crowned here was Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. 1115 02:38:36,567 --> 02:38:38,482 He was three years old. 1116 02:38:38,567 --> 02:38:41,898 He died in 1967. 82025

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