Fun fact: when Puyi returned to the Forbidden City in 1959 for the first time after he left there almost half a century ago, he was asked by the staff to pay for the ticket to enter the palace, but was reluctant to do so because he felt it was humiliating to buy a ticket for entering his "own home", in the end his friend paid the fare for him and the palace staff was shocked to learn who he truly was

@poodtang2104

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you don't miss something till it's gone.

@leerogish7223

5 күн бұрын

Mao loved the fact that the Chinese were able to reform the emperor into an everyday man, part of the proletariat while the soviets were never able to do that with the czar. As he saw it a sign Chinese communism was superior to soviet communism.

Now that I'm older, it is much easier to identify with Puyi. Haven't we all been little emperors, growing up in wonderful and mysterious palaces? And later on, when we grow up, we can go back only as tourists visiting a museum.

@lolmeme69_

4 жыл бұрын

Oof...so true.

@justinramthun1518

4 жыл бұрын

i can't tell if this is a joke or the beautiful thing iv'e ever read

@mottopanukeiku7406

4 жыл бұрын

That's a very interesting angle on this movie.

@AgrippaMaxentius

3 жыл бұрын

You just gave me a totally new perspective. When I was young (Before 10) I grew up in an upper middle class family. Regular trips, several homes around the world. Now 31, poor, and if I were to walk into some of the places we used to visit, i'd be escorted out by security.

@maidat4026

3 жыл бұрын

Agrippa Maxentius man, that’s sad as fuck

When he returns to his home is the best part

@leriouslygaming5523

6 жыл бұрын

agreed

@zimu6134

5 жыл бұрын

The Forbidden City was built in the Ming Dynasty

@rosalinacv1996

5 жыл бұрын

@@zimu6134 Yeah but, he was raised there. So, basically that mede the palace his old home.

@BS-ru6lp

4 жыл бұрын

Buyin' a ticket to go home. What could be sadder?

@manchuriancandybar864

3 жыл бұрын

@@BS-ru6lp Buying a cigarette packet to get lung cancer.

This movie always made me feel sad how Puyi's life was what everyone wanted him to be except himself. I hope he finally found peace.

@cosmeticscameo8277

4 жыл бұрын

he was a puppet from the day he was born to his final days. the little bit of joy he had was just being a regular person tending gardens.

@maxpaul7102

4 жыл бұрын

@@cosmeticscameo8277 a docu described him as a sadist to the ?unics?

@cosmeticscameo8277

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxpaul7102 let's be straight here many emperors abused the eunuchs.

@bluBlaq33

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t a nice person in real life. He use to have his eunuchs beaten often into a bloody mess.

@lungchan1729

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluBlaq33 I wouldn't be suprised... wick person he must have been. Those movie never tell the entire truth, just a romance version. He must carry lot's of genetic problem too has they marry only between cousins.

Most emotional scene in the entire film

@RajeshJustaguy

4 жыл бұрын

agree... i watched this very long ago.. and only recently remember this movie again

One of the greatest films ever made. Don't make movies like this anymore.

When the boy opens the cricket container he freeds the emperor and the emperor is now free from suffer what a sad story but a memorable ending

A remarkable movie. This final scene is partly based on fact (Puyi did visit the Forbidden City in later years), but it's more symbolic. In this one scene we experience three temporal realities, all conveyed by music, silence, and little dialogue: When Puyi is buying his ticket to enter the Forbidden City, we hear the Socialist accordion music of mid-20th-century China. As he enters the palace grounds proper, traditional music carries us (with Puyi) into the spectral twilight of China's imperial past. As he approaches the entrance to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he cautiously walks onto the central decorative stones (something he does earlier in the movie, when he's crowned emperor as a small boy) and into the grand hall. Puyi hands the young boy the wooden cricket holder and disappears, perhaps a symbolic gesture of hope that China remember something of its history. In the scene's final seconds, the guide's megaphone (which blares the notes of "Yankee Doodle") brings us abruptly into the touristic present.

sad. If I were him, returning to my old home, I don't know how much pain I could bear seeing the things were so empty and changed after years of separation...

He used to be a toy like cricket in wooden box then he is free like cricket out of wooden box

After so many years i finally understood this scene. He become the cricket

@gamguy777

4 жыл бұрын

it's just symbolism from Puyi's time to the new generation.

@miliba

4 жыл бұрын

in reality he swiftly hid behind the throne, watching the little boy while giggling like one himself

@cosmeticscameo8277

4 жыл бұрын

@@miliba puyi pulled a batman.

This scene always makes me so sad. Puyi returns to what used to be his home, not as an Emperor, but as a lowly tourist. He reflects back on what his life used to be like, and what was taken from him.

0:12 Such a feeling of sadness to see him walk through the tremendous but empty palace, with all the many people who once waited on and bowed to him now all long gone.

Awesome how Puyi hands over the Cricket (It is impossible for a Cricket to live to be 60 years old, the Cricket is Puyi trapped in the confinement that is the Forbidden City) finally handing his Empire and his rightful reign over to the Communist boy and giving him absolute closure by disappearing and being free, while the Cricket, the symbol of his reign now finding a master in the Communist boy.

@xuanyu5726

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, it is just you not our Chinese people. A cynical internet warrior cannot represent Chinese people

@analienfromouterspace

5 жыл бұрын

@@xuanyu5726 Everyone must be meet their tolls one way or the other. Nobody is above the law of God.

@dougr.2398

5 жыл бұрын

Xuan Yu no, it is not just him, it is you, too and all who are imprisoned by false and oppressive ideologies. Communism unsuccessfully tries to replace the idea of God with the will of the people, but it always turns out to be the will of a false idol, a despot who is a tyrant or the people themselves, tyrannizing those who disagree with them.

@dougr.2398

5 жыл бұрын

Samuel Benitez yes, the cricket is symbolic. Pu-Yi vanishes, but thé cricket appears. Simplicity is more important than despotism.

@joshfish2

5 жыл бұрын

@@dougr.2398 imo both god and Communism are fake, many Atheists like me as well

China has such a mysterious and beautiful past. Even though its completely different today, I hope its people will never let go of their roots

@user-wu6xl4wq5q

5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean completely different today?

@benmasclans4

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-wu6xl4wq5q it's completely urban and modern and bright cities everywhere compared to the Dynastys of old its completely different.

@ladygreytea2462

5 жыл бұрын

Will never forget.

@aymoshrooms6416

3 жыл бұрын

橡皮榛子 says you. ccp are the nazis of the present.

@sagisdoodleverse9696

3 жыл бұрын

@@aymoshrooms6416 lol

I visited the Forbidden City once. It is huge. It has 9,999 rooms, the idea being that it is one step below Heaven, which has 10,000 rooms. I saw the section where the Emperor's concubines lived. He had up to 25 of them. I concluded that it was good to be the Emperor.

Exceptional ending scene of an exceptional movie.

What a poignant ending to a magnificent film. It's not so much the cricket part, but more that last bit with the tourist mob. Sums Puyi's life up in one sentence and that's it. Always gets me.

Whole scene is emotional but when that old cricket gets out of its box.........

@bargainbassist

4 жыл бұрын

Emi Kaur I was visiting my aunt many years ago, and we watched this movie together in her living room. When the cricket made its surprising final appearance, she cried her eyes out.

Puyi will never be forgotten as the Last Emperor of China.

This is one of my favorite movies... I love the music and how beautiful the film is.

The boy from the new era catches a glimpse of the beauty and mystery of 2,000 years of Imperial Chinese dynasties, and the Last Emperor vanishes forever.

The last time I watched this film when I was kid last part of the film is unforgettable

love this scene! so symbolic!

Did they make a Yankee Doodle tune for American tourists?

@lioubastoupakova3770

4 жыл бұрын

Classic Chinese tour guide

@ComradeHellas

3 жыл бұрын

yes and it's great

@starkillerdude1914

3 жыл бұрын

Its likely the megaphones were imported from America

poor old man

@David-dz3ig

7 жыл бұрын

:(

@haroldgodwinson2825

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, he lived happy as peasant at the end

I won't forget this part forever..

From emperor of China to a Gardner what a sad life puyi had

@DmoneyS44

3 жыл бұрын

He was probably happier as gardener than he ever was as emperor. In revolution the chinese made several mistakes, but im glad they did not make the mistakes of france and russia where they killed innocent royals, instead allowing puyi to live in mostly peace

@mr.cebuano2843

3 жыл бұрын

@@DmoneyS44 technical the royal family of qing Dynasty was not innocent

I really love a great film like that. It's so beautiful and tragic at the same time.

he is my favorite emperor to study

@noway1866

5 жыл бұрын

Jonathan English 康熙，雍正，乾隆。這是清朝的皇帝最出名。電影： 康熙王朝, 8 歲就做皇帝（8 years old became king) 雍正王朝 乾隆王朝 還有很多很多。 You can learn from king : Kangxi,Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing dynasty famous king. Film which I mention.

@user-ym2zv5ou6i

4 жыл бұрын

a barbarian emperor，nothing to study

@soniceverhate9179

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ym2zv5ou6i lol

@ComradeHellas

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ym2zv5ou6i yeah I prefer others

I thought he became the cricket...Whatever, I still appreciate this film invites me to think. So different from today's crap!!

cricket: "ten thousand years will give you suuuuch a crick in the neck!! boy does it feel good to be outta there!!!!"

His home Probably to the most talked home back then Now a property to the country

I was at the forbidden city in 1988 its breathtaking ,also visited the summer palace and the Temple of heaven and walked on the Great Wall also

@augustinefaithdefender

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh it is nothing compare to Versailles!

@maxlu8235

3 жыл бұрын

@@augustinefaithdefender Tbh, the Forbidden city is much larger than Versailles; let's also ignore the fact that the forbidden city was built more than 200 years before Versailles.

@augustinefaithdefender

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxlu8235 you know that ugly shithole was built in six months lol with ugly stone and wood. forbidden city 720 000 m2 housed about 3000-10000 people. Versailles 8 200 000 m2 housed more than 60 000 people. there is no other palace in the world could compare to Versailles in term of beauty, glory, size, or anything else lol.

@larryl1517

3 жыл бұрын

@@augustinefaithdefender Of course there are less men in the forbidden city. Only the emperor and his closest family members live in the city. It's not like in France that all kinds of people can live and stay in that palace. And the forbidden city was built in Ming dynasty but continuously built until the late Qing dynasty. If you think it's ugly, well, I won't judge it. After all, not everyone likes Monroe.

Puyi soul was set free from the pain

The boy is xi jinping.

@bebos1262

5 жыл бұрын

Really?

@bebos1262

5 жыл бұрын

Nah I'm joking

@bebos1262

5 жыл бұрын

It would be cool though.

@lucasdeabrielle7375

5 жыл бұрын

@@bebos1262 it is xi Jinping

@anticcc3372

5 жыл бұрын

😂

That cricket is at least 60 yrs. old!

amazing cinematography really good sets yup best picture written all over it

Last emperor of China was born at the wrong time to be the emperor of China. He seen the fall of Chinese empire in 1912, World War 1, China became divided itself. A puppet emperor of China led by the Japanese, World War 2, arrested by Soviet paratroopers in 1945. He saw Chairman Mao take over China, became a commoner as a gardener. Being pushed around by the red guards. And died in 1967, I hope he finally found peace now. This movie was made in 1987 its a great movie but yet very sad indeed.

I feel sad for him. From emperor to gardener

@wongkengmun1103

5 жыл бұрын

Lost of status but gaining peace at last

@kuzakani4297

3 жыл бұрын

interesting fact The last Tsar also liked the botanic, gardener. Sadly the soviets killed hill with his family.

@DD-wx4jc

3 жыл бұрын

@@kuzakani4297 the last Tsar also was responsible for massacres and many deaths of his own people. Good riddance

@Har0Id

3 жыл бұрын

@@DD-wx4jc u mad?

The music is so serene

Emotional film.

I’m sure what was going through his head, If the the dynasty were still ruling, he’d still be there instead he’s one of the people just touring the place.

Aww he’s been a great emperor

I'd like to say that Puyi's end is not so good but acceptable for himself as the last emperor of Tsing Dynasty. According to the end of other dynasties , normally he should have died with his dynasty or should have been sentenced to jail. I believe that he was complacent about his end at that moment.

@DmoneyS44

3 жыл бұрын

Ya, I think most dynasties ended with death or prison

A Little Gift from The Emperor.... Cricket the Gift of Emperor....

This cricket ain't no Jiminy.

3:49 ruined emotional scene

@flamefang

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the point?

@iamdafuriousofall

3 жыл бұрын

Ruined but i say, people moved on, its a cold world we live in

0:00 - 1:15 ive been waiting for the 4th rebuild of evangelion movie to be released. and after like 9 years of being put off and hiatus and studio drama, it finally came out. but then covid hit and who knows when its going to get an international release. i feel like this is what its gonna be like to finally see it in theatre xD

2:01 yu ah! na! alat! in! thea!

@DBT1007

3 жыл бұрын

It's because the influence of British Empire. British Empire did lot of stuff in China more than any western power. They drugged China, attack them, invade some chunks of their land, rape, stole some of their artefacts, etc.

He witnessed the entire China's history (Yes I mean "China" cuz it wasn't called China before the Republic.

@DBT1007

3 жыл бұрын

China = Qin Dynasty's people or Qin's people Qin pronounced as Chin

How does it feel when have to buy the ticket to enter your own home.

i have never expected to hear yanke doodle in a film about communist china lmao

I'm looking all over for the name of the song that plays as he is walking around. If anybody knows it would be greatly appreciated!

@eljugadorloco

7 жыл бұрын

/watch?v=lDh6KKOJf7o this

@DofGreengables88

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Daniel Fortesque

I watch this films.1st time when i was 13 years.old. couldnt.understand the historical event puyi went thru. Decades later i learnt more about china history especially times which puyi went thru. His life full.of life threatening ups and downs. He was lucky to escape death during 50s great leap forward movement and escape and died before full force of cultural revolutions kills tens of millions of educated, religious ppl in china by ccp.

What a good ending. So poignant.

Only film that CCP permitted shooting inside the Fobidden City.

GIANMARCO GROPPELLI: MOVIES REVIEWER-POET-WRITER-NOVELIST. BERTOLUCCI STRIKE AGAIN. GREAT ITALIAN MOVIE TO VIEW. MASTERPIECE 📽 G.G ☆☆☆☆☆

So Puyi got the cricket in 1908. It's sometime in the late 50s or early 60s when he meets that kid. How is the cricket still alive? It seems to be the same one.

@charlesferdinand422

7 жыл бұрын

It's a metaphor you stupid gullible fuck.

@pikarat_nova

7 жыл бұрын

Come on, have the decency to explain it. But you are right, when he release the cricket, it was basically a metaphor for the freedom that Pu Yi now enjoys as a simple gardener unfettered by the duties and stress that once surrounded him when he was a emperor and a person in a more social class.

@user-wu6xl4wq5q

7 жыл бұрын

Robert C. Foundation actually I believe the cricket was the emperor because the boy didn't see anything in the jar until he searched for the old man

@user-wu6xl4wq5q

7 жыл бұрын

Robert C. Foundation It's a meaningful scene which is like a bit of mystery sense because the Emperor loved crickets and so turned into a cricket himself and his spirit went into the jar and resurrected into a cricket.

@Night_Dragon11

7 жыл бұрын

The Cricket and Puyi are used very symbolically here in this scene, in a surreal way, first of all, the Cricket is Puyi, it represents his 60+ year old self, like Puyi, the Cricket was trapped in an enclosure as Puyi was trapped in the Forbidden city since he was a child, Puyi hands the Cricket symbolizing his Bloodline as the Emperor of China to the Communist Boy symbolically and willingly handing the Empire to the Communists, giving him and his empire closure.

So sad but he was the son of heaven....he went back home

Me gusta mucho esa parte final de la Pelicula ya que habiendo sido un Emperador se convirtio en un Ciudadano de su pais y al niño le demostro que habia sido Emperador de la China enseñandole la cajita con el Grillo que le habian regalado cuando fue un ñiño. Bella pelicula.

It seems that it was a life like Yoshinobu Tokugawa ...

@channelname8152

3 жыл бұрын

The last shogun?

@poweroruka8521

3 жыл бұрын

@@channelname8152 That's right. Tokugawa 15th Shogun. This is the last lord of the Edo period

I get the symbolism of the scene and I think it’s great. But the reality is crickets can only live for a few months at best. So I’m a little confused why they decided to toss in a splash of fiction to a non-fiction film.

Was? Why? Ok maybe I should just watch the movie

@drumsalive

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha u highlighted this haha

So sad¡¡ he had to pay a tiket to get inside his own home¡¡ UNFEAR¡¡¡

The cricket remained alive all that time?

I don't like it doesn't have the staff roll and good music at the end:(

I would imagine if the kid is Xi Jing Ping 😊

🇯🇵18/12/8 20:40👍

This is the one song i love from the movie never get bored watchin this movie like i watch the Godfather over & over. I wish they would've made this instrumental song a bit louder for the scene i always turn it up to hear that pt 0:14-0:21 & so on. anyone know what this instrumental beautiful song is they played in this scene? as he walks up to the hall of supreme harmony

Musei Manju tumen se!

France, Russia, China, how many other monarchies will fall because of bad choices from Royals?

Beautiful Movie About China 🇨🇳 Flourished History!

a katydid for the new generations*..

And so one violent, despotic regime passes over to the next. A beggar on horseback whips a beggar on foot; times change, but the whipping never stops.

@artemplatov1982

3 жыл бұрын

An apt description of USA.

@intihumala9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@artemplatov1982 You're getting defensive because your country (Russia) made China into what it is today so you have to deflect to the United States out of complete embarrassment. It must be sad being such a morally and intellectually bankrupt person such as yourself.

@artemplatov1982

3 жыл бұрын

@@intihumala9087 LOL I ain't Russian. And I am very happy that China turned out be communist. Not like the USA where 500k is dead.Lolol

@intihumala9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@artemplatov1982 You are still part of the Russian family, some weak country the Soviets conquered and you're just butthurt because of Yugoslavia but nobody actually cares. You should cry some more

Me we'll have the salvation!

Que horror las repúblicas, que horror la democracia, que horror el comunismo, que horror el socialismo. Qué viva el EMPERADOR.

Does anyone know the name of the lute music in the background?

@soontatt4563

5 жыл бұрын

The Last Emperor OST (Main Title Theme) by David Bryne

@jeffreysommer3292

5 жыл бұрын

No, not at the end, the part that started at 0:15.

@jackxie1993

4 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Sommer It's called 梅花三弄 in Chinese, don’t Know translation in English Though

and is the about of the God's Feeling of God of the (Pure !) of (all) of the (all of us) of (all) and the Building and Heritage and the Home and House and the HEAVEN and now and of the past and in the future of the all HEAVEN

I really hope the Qing empire can last to now, it would be strong, it would be graceful. Deep love from Yakutsk, a east place in Russia.

@greenbrickbox3392

5 жыл бұрын

Lol the Qing were decrepit puppets to warlords and foreign powers by the 20th century and could not protect or provide for their people. There is not timeline where such a backwards system would last in the face of nationalist or socialist movements.

@user-ym2zv5ou6i

4 жыл бұрын

no han Chinese will love this barbarian empire ，the only thing it give to China is let china become a poor weak nation ，oh，and its stupid pigtail hair

@harleyquinn5774

3 жыл бұрын

Han Chinese would hate that.

China will no longer be the China it used to be. that's why Taiwan exists, it remains to be the country who preserved chinese culture. "One day the people will bring red colors, many lights and many sounds. the old year dragon will get scared of the red color and it will fly away, never to return again."

@user-wu6xl4wq5q

5 жыл бұрын

As one living in Taiwan I would greatly disagree. It is simply wrongful that we left our mother Mainland. We left for personal gains, holding personal savings, retreating because the people we had ruled chose to rebel. Indeed ROC was the legal government but what we did to our family men was the reason they turned against us and join the Communist side. We left the land of our ancestors, plain treachery to our own heritage, Taiwan today cannot be compared to China in any period. Not the Dynasty. Not the Republic. Not the People’s Republic. Whoever controls the Mainland is true China. If ROC lost the Civil War then it is clear they did not hold the “Mandate of Heaven”. The Mandate is decided by Heaven of what China is. It was simply Heaven’s choice that the ROC was not destined to rule. It is hope of all Chinese people that all Chinese can be unified with the Mainland for we are all the children of the Han Empire.

@kickneas

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-wu6xl4wq5q what if we don't want Unification? there's no point of unification we grew apart for more than 65 years, there's just so many changes, unification will just create a huge mess. if you control the mainland then sure, be China, be the "mandate of heaven". but we're better off our own. we can finally put ROC into the grave of history and establish the Republic of Taiwan. I'm Taiwanese, with half Filipino. I acknowledge I have a thick han blood but I just don't associate myself with the Chinese. they are, for me, a foreigner.

@user-wu6xl4wq5q

5 жыл бұрын

@@kickneas I am a Chinese. Technically I should be Taiwanese but as a Han Chinese I will hold onto my roots. The roots are the Mainland. The land where the Chinese Civilisation began. The Mandate is simply a figure of speech. When a dynasty fell to another they lost the Mandate of Heaven. Essentially ROC lossed the Mandate to the PRC. However, I will never side with cutting off my ties with my ancestors. Not sure wth you but the Han people in Taiwan are Chinese people who should not give up 5000 years of heritage just in the name of politics. The natives of Taiwan are an ethnicity of the region but the Han people are originally from the Mainland.

@nyanmypico3423

4 жыл бұрын

@Ken Wu 大陆几年前又开始弘扬传统文化了，古建筑修复，汉服复兴，传统音乐复兴等等。。。其实中国人对传统文化的感情是很深的

@pandabear153

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-wu6xl4wq5qI'm technically Han Chinese but can never call China my home!!! Greetings from sunny northwestern Minnesota!

I have this film on VHS good flick if you you want to fall asleep.

The cricket is the emperor's last gift to the future of China cough cough Tiananmen incident **cough *cough* Edit: For those who might misunderstand, i didn't ment the Tiananmen incident as the emperor's last gift. However i was pointing out that incident because in someways, it broke the emperor's last gift.

@lolmeme69_

4 жыл бұрын

This comment has been banned in China. Nice one!

and of the Chapel and Church and Chapel of the Pope Francis I and my known by the News of the Pope Joan I and HEAVEN

HE DIED IN 1967!!!!! lol

Pretty evil guy. This film is something of a whitewash.

@moslyjeb3090

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't your photo a whitewash thing

@TheLoyalOfficer

3 жыл бұрын

@@moslyjeb3090 huh?

@intihumala9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoyalOfficer he was a baby taken from his own mother and made into a puppet where he was a prisoner of his own home. I find it hard to believe he was "evil" considering he wasn't allowed to do anything

@TheLoyalOfficer

3 жыл бұрын

@@intihumala9087 He did throw a baby into a furnace so... Piece of shit.

@intihumala9087

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLoyalOfficer Empress Wan Rong was having an affair with a Japanese man and that would have technically made that child emperor of China had he not found out. If you think him doing that is horrible you should actually learn some Chinese history and see what dynasty's did to children. Puyi wasn't a saint but compared to his predecessors he was alot more humble and considering he was robbed of a life I dont blame him for losing his mind.