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FilmPG-131987
The Last Emperor
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic. From TMDB
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The Last Emperor is a 1987 drama history film, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring John Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole.
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60 of 158 · most liked firstOne of the greatest film producers, Jeremy Thomas, died last night. Bad Timing, Eureka, The Hit, Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Crash, Naked Lunch. I made it back from America to be with him at the end. We drank red wine and cried. Truly loved him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2009), directed by Matt Tyrnauer
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans here of the movie THE LAST EMPEROR. I think it’s a fantastic movie.
positive · AI labelView post →REALLY sad to hear of the passing of one of the GREAT British Film Producers — JEREMY THOMAS. His Films included THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) — for which he won an Oscar MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE (1982) SEXY BEAST (2000) amongst MANY others. Watch this Docco. THE STORMS OF JEREMY THOMAS (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just popping in to share what I just finished last night while watching The Last Emperor. What a movie. I had last seen it about 20 years ago and it was nice to revisit it. Pattern is Elder Grove by Samantha Guerin 🧶 is mine in Floribunda colorway on Crumble Slubby & Meringue Fluff.
positive · AI labelView post →Everyone of a certain age in the UK has seen Carole Hersee on the telly. The young Carole grew up & became a successful costume designer in film & theatre. You can see her work in 'The Last Emperor', 'Dangerous Liasons' & many others
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh man, Thomas was a film lover's producer – Bad Timing, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, The Hit, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash (the Cronenberg one, of course), Sexy Beast, High Rise, and many, many more. RIP. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →Japanese composer #RyuichiSakamoto helped pioneer #SynthWave with his experimental tunes. Several noms for film scores include 2015’s THE REVENANT & a win for 1987’s THE LAST EMPEROR- his 1980 track “Riot In Lagos” was an early Starck favorite #AvantGarde #80sMusic #1980s #80s youtu.be/HZ_SrK4D1fg
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Bernardo Bertolucci (BOTD 3/16/41). 4 Oscar noms, 2 wins. 1970 The Conformist 1972 Last Tango in Paris 1987 The Last Emperor 2003 The Dreamers Also, 1900 (1976). Fun fact: THE LAST EMPEROR got 9 Oscar nods & won every one, including Writer and Director for Bertolucci. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're coming to the great film producer Jeremy Thomas' talk abt Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, Crash, Bad Timing, Naked Lunch, Young Adam etc at The Edinburgh Film Fest tomorrow, a treat: He has curated a 40 min playlist of music from his movies. Will be played loud, from 7.50pm! Spread the word
neutral · AI labelView post →It won three: Cher, Dukakis, and screenplay. Gardenia lost to Sean Connery (THE UNTOUCHABLES), film and director lost to Bernardo Bertolucci (THE LAST EMPEROR) #TCMParty #Moonstruck ^JW (2/2)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82. Screenwriter, whose 1987 collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci won nine Oscars, was also known for The Passenger, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor - You should watch this for the cinematography alone. Stunningly beautiful and sad film.
positive · AI labelView post →Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer spent years with the late Valentino Garavani and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti for his documentary ‘Valentino: The Last Emperor.’ Garavani hated the film—until he sat in the audience for its premiere screening at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ ‘The Last Emperor’ Star Lisa Lu to Receive Hollywood Walk of Fame Honor (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav film from when you were 17. It's hard to not pick 'Wings of Desire' or 'The Last Emperor' instead, but I still have to go with Paul Verhoeven's 'Robocop' (1987).
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci (BOTD 3/16/41). 4 Oscar noms, 2 wins. 1970 The Conformist 1972 Last Tango in Paris 1987 The Last Emperor 2003 The Dreamers Also love: 1976 1900 Fun Fact: THE LAST EMPEROR got 9 Oscars noms, won every one inc. director/writer for BB. #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night, (The Last Emperor) with Leftover Chicken Ravioli, Mushrooms & Balsamic Brown Butter Sauce. Yesterday's chicken, minced with garlic, tarragon (sage works well too), S&P, and a little crème fraîche. The sauce is chicken stock, balsamic vinegar, a bucketful of butter and mushroom ketchup.
neutral · AI labelView post →She suggested Melancholia and fell asleep, while I was crying. Also, my friend's story, she suggested The Last Emperor. Not a very romantic movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge Day 9 A movie you thought you wouldn't like but ended up liking the Last Emperor (1987) It looked boring when it came out. I have a collection of all the Best Picture winners. Every year I watch them all. Watching it 30 years later the film has impressed me.
positive · AI labelView post →Veteran actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, famed for ‘Mortal Kombat’ and ‘The Last Emperor,’ has died at 75 in Santa Barbara, California. #TagawaDeath #MortalKombatStar #HollywoodActor #FilmLegend #EntertainmentTribute
neutral · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: Flashdance Gordon The Last Emperor Starfighter Night of the Living Dead Comet Last Tango and Cash in Paris Hey, these are fun!
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was little my mom prominently displayed a doll of Puyi from The Last Emperor (I can't find a pic of it, just picture this as a doll). Many years later I said "you must have really liked that movie." She said "I never saw it. Just liked the doll."
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor dir. Bernardo Bertolucci #botd Winner of nine Academy Awards, the film recreates Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti...
neutral · AI labelView post →I knew that Ryuichi Sakamoto won the academy award for best original soundtrack in 1987 for The Last Emperor. I did not know that he shared that award with David Byrne for his work on the film. You learn something cool everyday, I guess
neutral · AI labelView post →Richard Vuu on the set of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor 📷 Christophe D’Yvoire, 1987 I love photos of movie set with clappers 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of scene fm '87-movie The Last Emperor where his eunuch servants have their severed private parts returned to them in a jar to carry as they are forced out of palace. But in GOP Sen's case I dont know they'll even be found in storage when this T2 hell ends. And yes it will end. Someday.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah there's no obvious weak candidate here. It was a competitive year. If memory serves, The Last Emperor swept, winning all 9 of its nominations. The Princess Bride received only one nomination. But which film is better remembered? #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "FernGully: The Last Emperor" Tim Curry, Joan Chen, Christian Slater, John Lone Directors: Bill Kroyer and Bernardo Bertolucci Epic animated biographical musical fantasy-drama film youtube.com/watch?v=FyJv... youtube.com/watch?v=l9Z3... gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/FernGul...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a scene in the movie The Last Emperor where the adolescent Pu Yi demands that the guards let him out of the palace, which he is confined to by centuries of tradition. Despite his authority, the guards don't bend. Our military faces a similar test.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor — Winner of nine Oscars including Best Director for Bernardo Bertolucci #botd, the film recreates Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes. The Last Emperor is the movie about his life.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor, wow man. It's a movie about an emperor but he's like the last one. And its somehow Batman? Makes you think
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember the movie "The Last Emperor?" A young child was in direct line of the Chinese Emperors, but China ended that political system. The little boy continued to be brought up in his special Emperor estate as if he would grow up to rule the country. Could we do that with trump?
neutral · AI labelView post →Just spent 209 minutes of my Sunday, watching the directors cut of The Last Emperor. I forgot how much of a phenomenal film this was.
positive · AI labelView post →Vittorio Storaro has 4 Oscar nominations: Apocalypse Now, 1980 Reds, 1982 The Last Emperor, 1988 Dick Tracy, 1991 He won the first three. Francis Ford Coppola inserted himself, production designer Dean Tavoularis & cinematographer Storaro in Apocalypse Now, as a TV film crew.
neutral · AI labelView post →These gentlemen are David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto they created o.a. the music for the movie 'The Last Emperor'
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad to hear of the death of movie producer Jeremy Thomas - The Last Emperor of course but also The Sheltering Sky, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and Sexy Beast among so many other great films. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor; Crash...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad; Pinocchio - 2019; Only Lovers Left Alive...) later deadline.com/2026/09/jere...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 22 World Leader in a movie The Last Emperor (1987) youtu.be/A4cH6g1wD5g?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 22: World leader in a movie 🎥The Last Emperor (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →I agonized over some of the choices. For instance, for 1982, should i go with "The Pirate Movie" or "Gandhi"? For 1984, "Night Of The Comet" or "Amadeus"? 1987, "Evil Dead II" or "The Last Emperor"? It was down to the wire. @cmr2.bsky.social @roni1133.bsky.social @axfrommn.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →This regime is reminding me of the movie The Last Emperor, about a toddler who becomes absolute ruler. I'm waiting for him to order someone to drink ink.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite first-watches in Feb. 2026: - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie - Marty - The Voice of Hind Rajab - Mr. Nobody Against Putin - Belle (2013) - How to Make a Killing - The Last Emperor - Retirement Plan - Lone Star - Hoppers
neutral · AI labelView post →The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. For me it was "The Last Emperor" that won the oscar for best picture of the year when I was ten. So hopefully this means nothing negative haha
neutral · AI labelView post →if The Last Emperor came out today there’d be five ‘explainers’ about the miraculous cricket at the end of the movie (The Arrow 4K of this is 👌👌👌 and I think this is a bit unfairly maligned as a ‘bad’ Best Picture winner - though I can understand the politics behind the criticism…)
positive · AI labelView post →I literally forgot to post any kind of link or context or whatever to explain what film this was about. What is wrong with me This is about The Last Emperor
neutral · AI labelView post →34. A movie I watched recently: The Last Emperor
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor is such a fantastic movie. I really love it. The music!! My god!
positive · AI labelView post →Oh bloody hell! This is sad news. Jeremy Thomas, legendary Oscar winning British director of The Last Emperor, Bad Timing, Naked Lunch, Crash, Sexy Beast, Tideland, Eureka, The Dreamers, Fast Food Nation and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has died. 😞 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge Day 2 Peter O'Toole movie The Last Emperor (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 🎥🎬 #nightflight 4/28 The most visually beautiful film you've ever seen The Last Emperor (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →Trumpy's little Eunuchs..... What describes Republican Congress critters: Who remembers Bertolucci’s 1987 film, The Last Emperor? There’s a scene where the Eunuchs who served the Emperor receive a little box with their balls as they leave the Forbidden City when the Empire dissolved. Do your job!
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t think The Last Emperor is a perfect movie - and its structure is, at this stage, fairly cliched - but some of the camerawork on show is stunning AND it’s amazing how timeless it feel - compare it to contemporaries around the late 80s. Bertolucci was a genius.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor (1987) Are you a fan of this Best Picture winner? Is it the actual best film of that year? If not, what is? #movies #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film from every decade: 20s The Freshman 30s The Thin Man 40s High Sierra 50s Bob le Flambeur 60s Le Cercle Rouge 70s Castle of Cagliostro 80s The Last Emperor 90s Conte d’été (Tale of Summer) 00s Casino Royale 10s Under the Skin 20s Occupied City
positive · AI labelView post →The Last Emperor (1987) - A beautiful film even if it’s about a period of history I know nothing about. boxd.it/9FLOVh
positive · AI labelView post →Lovely bit of film trivia. The late Maurice Binder who designed all those famous title sequences for the early Bond films did the titles for THE LAST EMPEROR. Jeremy Thomas was working at Pinewood Studios and said to Bertolucci "Oh, no problem, I'll ring him up!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out to my dearly departed grandmother who went to bring a 10 yr old me to see Empire of the Sun, but mixed up movies and we saw The Last Emperor instead. Certainly a different flavor of film, but I thought it was gorgeous. Still haven’t seen Empire of the Sun
positive · AI labelView post →I think its a good film, but I fucking love these biographically epics, I legit like THE LAST EMPEROR and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Its sadly hard to find, but you should watch it if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinnah_...
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