Yanco Films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A challenging, multilayered epic [of] the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne in 1908 at the age of three, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City."--Container.