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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:56,885 --> 00:03:00,803 The war criminals will proceed in orderly fashion 2 00:03:00,829 --> 00:03:04,668 to the main waiting room and await instructions. 3 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:08,730 No talking! Obey the guards! 4 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:15,696 War criminals must proceed to the main waiting room! 5 00:03:17,614 --> 00:03:21,785 Those caught talking will be severely punished! 6 00:04:09,291 --> 00:04:10,667 The Emperor! 7 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,631 Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! 8 00:04:15,756 --> 00:04:18,467 What do they think they're doing? Stop! It is dangerous! 9 00:04:18,592 --> 00:04:22,513 Go back. Go back. Go! 10 00:04:22,638 --> 00:04:25,140 Are you mad? They could kill us all! 11 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,267 Go! Go! 12 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:27,930 Open the door! Open the door! 13 00:06:29,223 --> 00:06:33,977 Open the door! Open the door! 14 00:07:05,259 --> 00:07:06,635 Mama! 15 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:36,707 By the command of Her Imperial Majesty, also called, the compassionate, 16 00:07:36,832 --> 00:07:43,338 and the Blessed, the Respectful, and the Long-Living, the Empress Dowager commands. 17 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:48,343 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, son of Prince Chun, 18 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:52,708 shall be transferred immediately to the Forbidden 19 00:07:52,734 --> 00:07:56,210 City and will remain in the great within, 20 00:07:56,310 --> 00:08:00,939 awaiting Her Majesty's decision. Respect this! 21 00:08:38,727 --> 00:08:43,440 Ar Mo, I am giving you my son. My son is your son! 22 00:08:43,565 --> 00:08:44,942 Quick! Quick! 23 00:09:35,868 --> 00:09:37,452 I want to go home! 24 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:43,709 Look, look at all the camels. And look at the Forbidden City! 25 00:11:00,827 --> 00:11:02,204 Give him to me. 26 00:11:04,498 --> 00:11:05,874 Ar Mo! 27 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:38,407 Pu Yi, come here. 28 00:11:57,259 --> 00:12:05,259 How small you are. Are you afraid of me? Everyone is. 29 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:10,898 I am the Grand Empress Dowager, 30 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,987 and I have lived here for a long, long time. 31 00:12:33,587 --> 00:12:38,175 And they call me the old Buddha. 32 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:49,686 This is Peony. Do you like her? 33 00:12:50,312 --> 00:12:57,486 Men, you know, are not allowed in the Forbidden City after dark. 34 00:12:58,487 --> 00:13:01,740 Even little men like you! 35 00:13:02,324 --> 00:13:08,580 The only man who can live here is the Emperor. 36 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:17,714 But the Emperor is on high, riding the dragon now! 37 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:22,511 He died today! 38 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:49,037 Longevity. 39 00:13:53,083 --> 00:14:01,083 These other men, they're not real men. They're all eunuchs. 40 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:12,561 And, now, they're all waiting for me to die. 41 00:14:13,896 --> 00:14:21,896 That is why they're putting my bed in the middle of the room, under the black pearl. 42 00:14:27,701 --> 00:14:35,701 Little Pu Yi, I have decided that you will be the new Lord of Ten Thousand Years. 43 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:47,846 You will be the Son of Heaven. 44 00:15:40,816 --> 00:15:42,860 Are we going home, Papa? 45 00:17:03,649 --> 00:17:11,240 Sssh! Sssh! Sssh! It will soon be over. 46 00:17:13,492 --> 00:17:14,868 Look! 47 00:17:31,301 --> 00:17:32,678 Look! 48 00:19:21,161 --> 00:19:23,330 Papa, cricket! 49 00:19:41,598 --> 00:19:43,225 Cricket! Cricket! Where's the cricket? 50 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:49,606 Ahh, he is my friend, Your Majesty. Safe and warm under my arm. 51 00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:53,819 Kept me company on the long journey here. 52 00:19:54,444 --> 00:20:00,742 Ahh, see? He is kowtowing to Your Majesty. 53 00:20:01,535 --> 00:20:05,330 Now, he can be the Emperor's cricket! 54 00:20:13,505 --> 00:20:15,757 Can't let anybody in! 55 00:20:34,401 --> 00:20:36,528 His soup is getting cold! 56 00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:38,530 Get out of here! 57 00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:53,312 - Where am I? - In the People's Republic of China. 58 00:20:58,592 --> 00:20:59,968 Why did you stop me? 59 00:21:00,093 --> 00:21:02,638 You are a criminal! You must be judged. 60 00:21:02,763 --> 00:21:05,516 I'm the Lord of Ten Thousand Years. 61 00:21:07,059 --> 00:21:08,435 Go. 62 00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:26,912 If you really wanted to die, you would have succeeded. 63 00:21:27,496 --> 00:21:28,872 You will kill me anyway. 64 00:21:29,748 --> 00:21:34,545 Whatever happens, you'll be kept alive until you have been judged. 65 00:22:10,956 --> 00:22:13,792 Your Majesty, this is the Forbidden City. 66 00:22:16,587 --> 00:22:23,260 Ah, look! This little one is Your Majesty's bedroom. This is where we are. 67 00:22:23,385 --> 00:22:25,053 Am I going home today? 68 00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:30,851 Not today, not yet. A-And here, look. 69 00:22:30,976 --> 00:22:36,356 This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where Your Majesty was crowned. 70 00:22:50,204 --> 00:22:54,124 I give Your Majesty the Gate of Marshall Valor. 71 00:22:55,042 --> 00:22:59,338 - I give you the maju-gate the... gate! - Yes. 72 00:22:59,463 --> 00:23:06,887 Yes, and the Palace with the Loudest Heaven... and... yes. 73 00:23:07,596 --> 00:23:10,724 Your Majesty, your Imperial bath is ready! 74 00:23:10,849 --> 00:23:17,272 I don't like baths! I don't like baths! I don't like baths! 75 00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:24,279 I don't like baths anymore! I don't like baths anymore! 76 00:23:24,988 --> 00:23:29,785 I don't like baths! I don't like baths! 77 00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:38,252 No bean curd today and no meat! 78 00:23:57,896 --> 00:24:00,691 Is it true I can do anything I want? 79 00:24:00,816 --> 00:24:02,568 Of course, Your Majesty! 80 00:24:02,693 --> 00:24:07,906 Anything you want. You are the Lord of Ten Thousand Years. 81 00:24:08,574 --> 00:24:16,574 Oh! Oh! Oh, no! Not in my face! Oh! Oh, no! No! 82 00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:22,087 I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven! 83 00:24:22,671 --> 00:24:29,052 - Yes! Oh, yes! - I am the Son of Heaven! 84 00:24:31,889 --> 00:24:38,645 Ar Mo! I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home! 85 00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:42,232 I want to go home, Ar Mo! I want to go home. 86 00:25:02,669 --> 00:25:10,669 Once upon a time, there was a great tree and a great wind. 87 00:25:12,012 --> 00:25:16,475 The tree and the wind were always fighting, 88 00:25:17,976 --> 00:25:19,937 but when wind came back, 89 00:25:20,062 --> 00:25:24,441 it was angrier and stronger then ever. 90 00:26:13,448 --> 00:26:14,825 Father. 91 00:26:33,969 --> 00:26:36,722 My lady, she is the new nurse. 92 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,263 This is good breast milk. 93 00:27:22,059 --> 00:27:27,814 Hey! Come on, hurry! 94 00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:56,195 And that's how you became my child. 95 00:29:58,131 --> 00:29:59,517 I repeat. 96 00:29:59,842 --> 00:30:02,847 Prisoners going to their cells will walk with 97 00:30:02,873 --> 00:30:06,074 their heads bowed. Keep your eyes on the ground! 98 00:30:06,174 --> 00:30:08,350 No looking forward or to the side! 99 00:30:08,475 --> 00:30:12,145 The guards will give you directions and tell you when to turn! 100 00:30:29,162 --> 00:30:31,498 Eyes down! Move! 101 00:31:02,613 --> 00:31:03,989 Pu Chieh. 102 00:31:32,518 --> 00:31:36,688 Your guest is waiting to meet you, Your Majesty. 103 00:31:41,401 --> 00:31:43,695 Also, your mother has arrived. 104 00:31:53,872 --> 00:31:57,835 You have not seen your mother for many years, Your Majesty. 105 00:32:08,762 --> 00:32:10,430 He is so small! 106 00:32:11,139 --> 00:32:12,975 He is young, Your Majesty. 107 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,937 Go. Go! 108 00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:24,903 The Emperor's brother, His Excellency, Pu Chieh. 109 00:32:43,172 --> 00:32:44,548 Ar Mo. 110 00:33:02,232 --> 00:33:03,609 Stay with me. 111 00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:13,035 How's the health of His Majesty's mother? 112 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:19,166 It is better, thank you. How much His Majesty has grown! 113 00:33:23,504 --> 00:33:26,131 My mother has not seen me for seven years! 114 00:33:30,385 --> 00:33:32,054 Do you remember my face? 115 00:33:33,138 --> 00:33:34,515 No! 116 00:33:35,933 --> 00:33:39,311 The night they came with the horses, I knew it would be like this. 117 00:33:39,436 --> 00:33:41,063 My brother sees you every day! 118 00:33:41,188 --> 00:33:45,234 Pu Chieh is very excited to meet you. He often talks about you. 119 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,819 We are all very proud of you. 120 00:33:48,862 --> 00:33:50,239 The kite. 121 00:33:50,864 --> 00:33:52,366 He chose this for you. 122 00:34:08,006 --> 00:34:09,383 Papa! 123 00:34:47,754 --> 00:34:50,090 Some of my clothes are in these boxes. 124 00:34:54,178 --> 00:34:56,638 This is the Imperial row. 125 00:34:56,763 --> 00:34:58,974 My capes are in that big box. 126 00:34:59,558 --> 00:35:00,934 What is that? 127 00:35:01,602 --> 00:35:02,978 My medicines. 128 00:35:03,437 --> 00:35:08,066 - Pills for rectifying the vapors. - Look, a chamber pot. 129 00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:12,863 These are my birds. 130 00:35:12,988 --> 00:35:17,451 That is my heater, and this is my camel. 131 00:35:43,268 --> 00:35:44,520 They're turning away! 132 00:35:44,645 --> 00:35:49,191 Of course! Ordinary people are not allowed to look at the Emperor! 133 00:35:49,316 --> 00:35:51,193 I am too important. 134 00:35:51,777 --> 00:35:54,863 Is it true that you can do whatever you want? 135 00:35:54,988 --> 00:36:00,661 Of course, I can. If I am naughty, someone else is punished. One of them! 136 00:36:11,839 --> 00:36:13,215 Stop! 137 00:36:14,258 --> 00:36:15,968 The Emperor will walk. 138 00:36:25,018 --> 00:36:29,690 I have never met other children. Are they all like you? 139 00:36:29,815 --> 00:36:32,359 I've got three sisters and two friends. 140 00:36:32,484 --> 00:36:34,987 If you come to our house, you can play with us. 141 00:36:35,112 --> 00:36:37,239 The Emperor never leaves the Palace. 142 00:36:38,866 --> 00:36:40,576 We play games together! 143 00:36:40,701 --> 00:36:43,370 I know a game, too! Run! 144 00:38:00,614 --> 00:38:04,284 - The ones in the boat are the high consorts. - High consorts? 145 00:38:04,409 --> 00:38:06,745 The wives of the Emperor before me. 146 00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:10,916 They say they're my mother, but they're not! They're not! 147 00:40:58,876 --> 00:41:01,558 We asked you for the books, so prisoners will 148 00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:04,031 have to pass this around or read it aloud. 149 00:41:10,262 --> 00:41:14,016 The sooner you begin to learn, the better. This is a school. 150 00:41:25,319 --> 00:41:28,739 History of the new popular democracy. 151 00:41:32,910 --> 00:41:37,915 Pages 84, 85. 152 00:41:41,502 --> 00:41:43,545 In February 1912, 153 00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:50,594 2 000 years of Imperial rule came to an end with the abdication of the Manchoo Dynasty. 154 00:41:50,969 --> 00:41:52,804 China became a republic. 155 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,350 It was the year of the Rat. 156 00:42:00,062 --> 00:42:02,856 Are you interested in ancient history? 157 00:42:06,193 --> 00:42:07,569 School... 158 00:42:08,862 --> 00:42:10,531 This is a prison. 159 00:42:12,282 --> 00:42:14,159 A real prison. 160 00:42:32,261 --> 00:42:33,887 I told you to start reading. 161 00:42:34,012 --> 00:42:36,849 You, there, read aloud. Read! 162 00:42:39,393 --> 00:42:40,769 According 163 00:42:43,981 --> 00:42:45,357 According 164 00:42:53,073 --> 00:42:57,703 According to the treaty between the empire and the first republic, 165 00:42:58,078 --> 00:43:02,583 the Emperor's taitou was retained and not abolished. 166 00:43:17,347 --> 00:43:23,729 He would retain his palaces, and he paid an annual subsidy of four million dollars. 167 00:43:24,730 --> 00:43:31,361 The republic also guaranteed to protect the Imperial tombs in perpetuity. 168 00:43:32,112 --> 00:43:38,493 In return, the dynasty surrendered forever its right to rule the country. 169 00:43:49,505 --> 00:43:57,505 Man, his nature originally good. 170 00:44:16,281 --> 00:44:18,951 Let us see what the Emperor has done. 171 00:44:21,870 --> 00:44:26,208 Your Majesty will do it again five times. 172 00:44:26,333 --> 00:44:27,709 Five times! 173 00:44:36,593 --> 00:44:38,136 Ten times. 174 00:44:55,028 --> 00:44:59,324 Why are you wearing that? You are not allowed to wear yellow! 175 00:45:00,492 --> 00:45:02,411 But this is ordinary yellow. 176 00:45:02,536 --> 00:45:05,622 - It is Imperial yellow! - No, it is not! 177 00:45:05,747 --> 00:45:10,586 We say it is! Only the Emperor can wear that yellow! Take it off! 178 00:45:10,711 --> 00:45:12,212 - No! - Take it off! 179 00:45:12,337 --> 00:45:14,798 No! And you're not the Emperor anymore! 180 00:45:14,923 --> 00:45:16,758 There is a new Emperor now! 181 00:45:16,884 --> 00:45:21,305 He has cut off his queue, and instead of a camel, he has got a car! 182 00:45:21,930 --> 00:45:23,307 What did you say? 183 00:45:23,891 --> 00:45:25,559 You're not the Emperor! 184 00:45:30,355 --> 00:45:31,732 Liar! 185 00:45:32,816 --> 00:45:34,193 You're not the Emperor anymore! 186 00:45:34,318 --> 00:45:37,112 Liar! Liar! 187 00:45:37,237 --> 00:45:38,906 You're not the... 188 00:45:41,742 --> 00:45:43,118 Liar! 189 00:45:46,079 --> 00:45:49,208 You're not the Emperor! How dare you! 190 00:45:59,426 --> 00:46:01,428 Calm yourselves! Oh! 191 00:46:01,553 --> 00:46:04,181 - You're not the Emperor! - How dare you! 192 00:46:04,932 --> 00:46:09,144 No! Your Majesty! Calm yourselves! 193 00:46:09,645 --> 00:46:11,563 Am I the Emperor or not? 194 00:46:11,688 --> 00:46:15,108 Your Majesty will always be the Emperor. 195 00:46:15,234 --> 00:46:17,778 - You see? - Prove it! 196 00:46:20,155 --> 00:46:28,155 Big Foot, drink it! Go on, drink the green ink. 197 00:46:50,811 --> 00:46:52,187 I will show you! 198 00:47:25,804 --> 00:47:30,392 See? That is a car! He is the President of the Republic. 199 00:48:48,387 --> 00:48:51,014 Why is this wall here, Lord Chamberlain? 200 00:48:51,682 --> 00:48:55,894 It is just a wall, Your Majesty. Nothing has changed. 201 00:48:56,144 --> 00:48:57,521 You are lying. 202 00:49:12,870 --> 00:49:16,540 High Tutor, am I still the Emperor? 203 00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:23,505 You will always be the Emperor inside the Forbidden City, but not outside. 204 00:49:23,964 --> 00:49:25,382 I do not understand. 205 00:49:25,507 --> 00:49:30,929 Outside China is now a republic, with a president. 206 00:49:32,472 --> 00:49:37,436 Where is Ar Mo? Ar Mo? 207 00:49:59,917 --> 00:50:01,668 You are all liars! 208 00:50:09,092 --> 00:50:12,070 - Let me say "good-bye"! - Hurry! Hurry! 209 00:50:16,892 --> 00:50:19,311 He's my child! Ah! 210 00:50:36,620 --> 00:50:40,624 Ar Mo? Ar Mo? 211 00:50:51,051 --> 00:50:53,011 I do not understand. 212 00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:55,556 I do not understand. 213 00:50:56,056 --> 00:50:58,058 Your Majesty is a big boy now. 214 00:50:58,183 --> 00:51:00,769 He cannot have a wet nurse anymore. 215 00:51:01,186 --> 00:51:04,481 It is much better like this. Much healthier. 216 00:51:04,606 --> 00:51:07,109 But she is not my wet nurse. 217 00:51:08,694 --> 00:51:10,237 She's my butterfly. 218 00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:29,089 Ar Mo! Ar Mo! 219 00:51:35,345 --> 00:51:41,059 Ar Mo! Ar Mo! 220 00:51:42,019 --> 00:51:45,439 Ar Mo! Ar Mo! 221 00:52:56,134 --> 00:53:03,267 This is the detention center of the Fushun Bureau of Public Security. 222 00:53:03,392 --> 00:53:05,727 And I am the governor! 223 00:53:07,187 --> 00:53:10,941 During the war, this was a Japanese prison. 224 00:53:11,525 --> 00:53:13,694 Many of you may remember it. 225 00:53:13,819 --> 00:53:16,613 Because you worked with the Japanese, 226 00:53:16,738 --> 00:53:23,245 you were responsible for building it, and you filled it with innocent people. 227 00:53:24,830 --> 00:53:26,248 How could this happen? 228 00:53:26,373 --> 00:53:28,917 Why did you betray your country? 229 00:53:29,501 --> 00:53:31,795 What turned you into war criminals? 230 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,465 We believe that men are born good! 231 00:53:36,049 --> 00:53:39,494 We believe that the only way to change is to 232 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,040 discover the truth and look at it in the face. 233 00:53:43,307 --> 00:53:45,184 That is why you are here. 234 00:53:45,934 --> 00:53:51,815 You will begin by writing the story of your lives and by confessing your crimes. 235 00:53:52,107 --> 00:53:57,905 Your salvation will lie entirely in the attitude you take! 236 00:53:58,030 --> 00:54:02,485 I advise you to be frank and sincere. 237 00:54:02,511 --> 00:54:06,055 Otherwise, things can still go very badly for you. 238 00:54:08,290 --> 00:54:11,835 You have learned that song very quickly. 239 00:54:12,377 --> 00:54:14,713 That is a good beginning. 240 00:54:42,950 --> 00:54:45,577 It is snowing. 241 00:54:51,291 --> 00:54:55,963 We must stick to the same story, or they will turn our words against us. 242 00:56:35,812 --> 00:56:41,610 After a few years, the tiny republic had become as corrupt as the old Empire. 243 00:56:41,735 --> 00:56:46,240 It fell quickly into the hands of ambitious generals and corrupt bureaucrats. 244 00:56:46,365 --> 00:56:53,288 The era of the warlords had begun. By May 1919, when I received my appointment, 245 00:56:53,413 --> 00:56:55,541 China was in turmoil. 246 00:57:48,302 --> 00:57:49,887 China awake. 247 00:57:52,306 --> 00:57:56,894 Did you know they're now selling electoral votes on the stock market? 248 00:57:58,061 --> 00:58:00,844 Nothing has changed with the republic, 249 00:58:00,870 --> 00:58:04,009 either inside or outside the Forbidden City. 250 00:58:04,568 --> 00:58:07,321 - Except for the bicycles. - The students are angry. 251 00:58:07,446 --> 00:58:08,822 But what can they do except shout? 252 00:58:08,947 --> 00:58:10,324 The shops are closing. 253 00:58:10,824 --> 00:58:12,284 Oh, so, they are. 254 00:58:12,993 --> 00:58:14,995 Maybe we'll be late after all. 255 00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:16,705 Shall we take a short cut? 256 00:58:16,830 --> 00:58:18,665 - Yes. - Use our feet. 257 01:00:10,110 --> 01:00:13,333 Remember, you're one of the first foreigners with an 258 01:00:13,359 --> 01:00:16,642 official post in the Forbidden City since Marco Polo. 259 01:00:16,742 --> 01:00:18,994 It makes me very nervous. 260 01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,137 The enemy. 261 01:00:47,814 --> 01:00:50,025 Is there a dagger in my back? 262 01:00:50,150 --> 01:00:51,527 Not yet. 263 01:00:58,158 --> 01:01:02,158 My friend, it is not easy to forgive a foreign 264 01:01:02,184 --> 01:01:06,183 devil who knows Confucius better than they do. 265 01:01:06,792 --> 01:01:10,420 And grows the finest peonies in Peking! 266 01:01:23,058 --> 01:01:25,811 May the new tutor present himself! 267 01:01:41,368 --> 01:01:44,162 Your Imperial Highness, the new tutor. 268 01:01:57,467 --> 01:02:00,554 The Emperor is honored to welcome his tutor. 269 01:02:00,679 --> 01:02:04,975 Your tutor is honored to have been chosen, Your Majesty. 270 01:02:17,404 --> 01:02:18,780 One more time. 271 01:02:21,491 --> 01:02:25,746 Your Imperial Highness, Mr. Reginald Fleming Johnston. 272 01:02:28,957 --> 01:02:31,001 How do you do, Mr. Johnston? 273 01:02:31,126 --> 01:02:34,213 How do you do, Your Majesty? 274 01:02:45,265 --> 01:02:47,142 Now we will go to school. 275 01:02:59,196 --> 01:03:01,073 Please begin the lesson. 276 01:03:01,782 --> 01:03:05,130 Your Majesty, in my country, it would be usual 277 01:03:05,156 --> 01:03:08,146 to begin with some kind of an examination. 278 01:03:08,455 --> 01:03:10,874 The Emperor cannot be examined. 279 01:03:11,416 --> 01:03:13,794 Well, that may have to change. 280 01:03:13,919 --> 01:03:18,131 But first, Your Majesty might like to ask me some questions. 281 01:03:21,301 --> 01:03:23,804 Where are your ancestors buried? 282 01:03:24,471 --> 01:03:26,807 In Scotland, Your Majesty. 283 01:03:28,684 --> 01:03:30,811 But then, where's your skirt? 284 01:03:30,936 --> 01:03:34,481 In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not? 285 01:03:34,606 --> 01:03:39,778 No, Your Majesty, Scotsmen do not wear skirts. They wear kilts. 286 01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:41,029 Kilts. 287 01:03:41,154 --> 01:03:46,743 Kilts. A matter of words, perhaps, but words are important. 288 01:03:46,869 --> 01:03:48,745 Why are words important? 289 01:03:48,871 --> 01:03:54,126 If you cannot say what you mean, Your Majesty, you will never mean what you say. 290 01:03:54,251 --> 01:03:58,505 And a gentleman should always mean what he says. 291 01:03:58,630 --> 01:04:03,886 Ah, yes! A gentleman. Are you a gentleman? 292 01:04:04,595 --> 01:04:10,267 I would like to be a gentleman, Your Majesty. I try to be. 293 01:04:12,436 --> 01:04:16,565 I'm not a gentleman. I'm not allowed to say what I mean. 294 01:04:16,690 --> 01:04:19,234 They are always telling me what to say. 295 01:04:21,570 --> 01:04:24,656 Your Majesty is still very young. 296 01:04:27,326 --> 01:04:31,246 I thought he might like to see some English and American magazines. 297 01:04:31,371 --> 01:04:35,292 I have just received them. 298 01:04:46,637 --> 01:04:50,140 I know that you know that I know that you know that, 299 01:04:50,265 --> 01:04:54,603 that is a dialog between Confucius and Chuang Tzu. 300 01:04:55,437 --> 01:04:59,191 Concerning respect, Your Majesty. 301 01:05:12,996 --> 01:05:15,165 Who is this "George Washington"? 302 01:05:15,290 --> 01:05:17,459 A famous American, Your Majesty. 303 01:05:17,584 --> 01:05:21,421 A revolutionary General, the first American President. 304 01:05:21,547 --> 01:05:24,174 Ah! Like Mr. Lenin in Russia? 305 01:05:25,050 --> 01:05:26,510 Not quite. 306 01:05:27,719 --> 01:05:29,221 Does he have a car? 307 01:05:30,556 --> 01:05:33,809 He lived a long time ago, Your Majesty. 308 01:05:34,810 --> 01:05:36,353 I want a car. 309 01:05:43,777 --> 01:05:48,448 I think your mouse is trying to escape, Your Majesty. 310 01:05:52,119 --> 01:05:54,955 Please do not tell anyone about my mouse. 311 01:06:06,675 --> 01:06:08,385 The lesson is finished. 312 01:06:42,794 --> 01:06:45,172 Our official taster's a brave man. 313 01:06:45,714 --> 01:06:49,134 Many of my ancestors have been poisoned, you know. 314 01:06:52,846 --> 01:06:56,266 Does Your Majesty have lunch like this every day? 315 01:06:56,391 --> 01:06:58,644 Oh, yes! Every day! Like theater! 316 01:06:58,769 --> 01:07:01,855 I do not know why. It has always been like that. 317 01:07:02,439 --> 01:07:04,274 This is my royal food. 318 01:07:06,151 --> 01:07:12,032 Your Majesty! One hundred year eggs. 319 01:07:12,783 --> 01:07:14,910 Snake bow. 320 01:07:16,411 --> 01:07:18,413 Angel's hair. 321 01:07:20,916 --> 01:07:28,674 Garlic sprout, steamed turtle, goat nipples... 322 01:07:28,799 --> 01:07:31,260 There's a danger of poisoning pots. 323 01:07:31,385 --> 01:07:34,721 My food comes directly from the high consorts. 324 01:07:34,847 --> 01:07:37,140 Their tasters had already tried them. 325 01:07:37,266 --> 01:07:39,518 It always arrives a bit cold. 326 01:07:55,701 --> 01:07:57,995 How do they kill Emperors in the West? 327 01:07:59,788 --> 01:08:02,499 The Austrian Emperor was shot, was he not? 328 01:08:02,624 --> 01:08:06,920 No, but his nephew was assassinated before the Great War. 329 01:08:07,045 --> 01:08:10,632 But the Russian Emperor had been shot. He was called the Tsar. 330 01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,636 - Yes. - He took lots of our land in Manchuria. 331 01:08:14,761 --> 01:08:19,308 I'm a Manchurian. Even after the republic, it's still my country. 332 01:08:42,122 --> 01:08:48,212 The-uh... secret, Your Majesty, is emerging again. 333 01:09:13,070 --> 01:09:15,656 Is something the matter, Your Majesty? 334 01:09:16,323 --> 01:09:17,908 Something is happening. 335 01:09:18,033 --> 01:09:20,661 Silence. Tell them to be quiet. 336 01:09:20,786 --> 01:09:22,162 Silence. 337 01:09:25,457 --> 01:09:26,834 Silence. 338 01:09:31,630 --> 01:09:33,549 What is happening, Mr. Johnston? 339 01:09:33,674 --> 01:09:35,634 - Uh, nothing is happening. - Quiet! 340 01:10:19,678 --> 01:10:24,892 On my way here, Your Majesty, we were held up by students from the university. 341 01:10:25,684 --> 01:10:28,103 They were protesting against the republican government, 342 01:10:28,228 --> 01:10:32,482 because it has agreed to give away Chinese territory to Japan. 343 01:10:33,567 --> 01:10:39,531 Is it true, Mr. Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads chopped off? 344 01:10:39,656 --> 01:10:45,370 It is true, Your Majesty. Many heads have been chopped off. 345 01:10:47,039 --> 01:10:48,999 It does stop them thinking. 346 01:10:50,250 --> 01:10:52,127 It is time for the Emperor's rest. 347 01:10:52,252 --> 01:10:54,546 The students are right to be angry. 348 01:11:00,552 --> 01:11:01,929 I'm angry! 349 01:11:03,180 --> 01:11:05,974 But I'm not allowed to leave the Forbidden City. 350 01:11:08,143 --> 01:11:10,020 I want to go out, Mr. Johnston! 351 01:11:10,145 --> 01:11:11,522 My lord! 352 01:11:13,232 --> 01:11:15,400 I want to see the city of sounds! 353 01:11:24,785 --> 01:11:28,372 The Emperor awards you with the order of the Ruby Hat Button, 354 01:11:28,956 --> 01:11:33,794 and with the right to be carried in your own chair, with four bearers. 355 01:11:55,899 --> 01:11:58,151 The last Emperor died on the same night 356 01:11:58,277 --> 01:12:02,614 as the Empress Guwalgiya, the night I was brought to the Forbidden City, 357 01:12:02,739 --> 01:12:04,116 when I was three. 358 01:12:05,534 --> 01:12:09,329 The eunuchs think he was murdered, but who killed him. 359 01:12:09,454 --> 01:12:12,374 And why? And who will kill me? 360 01:12:18,922 --> 01:12:21,258 The chair, your excellency. 361 01:12:28,515 --> 01:12:31,768 The traditional gift to eunuchs. 362 01:12:32,102 --> 01:12:35,397 Many thanks. Be grateful. 363 01:12:35,522 --> 01:12:38,442 - If it is official practice, - Always, sir, always, sir. 364 01:12:38,942 --> 01:12:41,778 In which case, I would like an official receipt. 365 01:12:54,666 --> 01:12:56,335 Stop! 366 01:13:00,464 --> 01:13:03,300 One, two, 367 01:13:04,551 --> 01:13:08,514 Three, four, five... 368 01:13:08,639 --> 01:13:10,724 Emperor extends his apologies. 369 01:13:10,974 --> 01:13:14,144 Please tell the Emperor that there is no offense. 370 01:13:14,269 --> 01:13:16,897 Emperor who has been offended. 371 01:13:17,022 --> 01:13:23,445 Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen... 372 01:13:35,707 --> 01:13:39,962 Even the bicycle was viewed with suspicion in the Forbidden City. 373 01:13:40,087 --> 01:13:43,841 My present to the Emperor lead to a lot of trouble. 374 01:14:53,285 --> 01:14:55,120 Change about! 375 01:15:36,411 --> 01:15:42,042 I hope the Emperor has not forgotten that this is the day for his math class. 376 01:15:50,717 --> 01:15:52,302 For Your Majesty! 377 01:15:52,427 --> 01:15:55,472 My doctor says, "Bicycles are bad for you." 378 01:15:55,597 --> 01:15:57,641 Bad for you, nonsense! 379 01:16:07,484 --> 01:16:08,861 How does it work? 380 01:16:09,194 --> 01:16:12,364 Oh, it's simple. 381 01:16:14,074 --> 01:16:20,664 Head up and eyes forward! As in math! 382 01:17:04,416 --> 01:17:05,834 My mother is dead, is she not? 383 01:17:05,959 --> 01:17:08,003 Yes, Your Majesty. 384 01:17:09,087 --> 01:17:10,756 I'm profoundly sorry! 385 01:17:10,881 --> 01:17:12,257 I'm not. 386 01:17:16,428 --> 01:17:17,888 She killed herself. 387 01:17:18,430 --> 01:17:20,599 She swallowed the ball of opium. 388 01:17:22,100 --> 01:17:24,728 I'm going to see her, and my brother. 389 01:19:24,056 --> 01:19:29,186 Open the door. Open the door. 390 01:19:41,490 --> 01:19:42,866 Open the door. 391 01:20:59,526 --> 01:21:07,526 Fallen devil and fallen machine. Trouble! Nothing but trouble! 392 01:21:13,332 --> 01:21:17,002 - Look where you lead him! - And you are an old, cruel, ignorant man. 393 01:21:17,127 --> 01:21:21,798 The boy's mother is dead, and he's not even allowed to see her! 394 01:21:21,924 --> 01:21:25,469 I want to go home! 395 01:21:25,594 --> 01:21:27,387 I want to go home! 396 01:21:27,513 --> 01:21:31,725 Stop it, stop it, stay where you are! 397 01:21:31,850 --> 01:21:33,393 I want to go home! 398 01:21:33,519 --> 01:21:36,730 Stop it, stay where you are! 399 01:21:36,855 --> 01:21:40,108 You fool! Stay there! 400 01:21:41,485 --> 01:21:42,861 Chang! 401 01:21:43,737 --> 01:21:45,322 Hunchback, Big Foot! 402 01:22:26,154 --> 01:22:34,154 Sir? Give me your hand, sir. Give me your hand, sir! 403 01:22:46,550 --> 01:22:49,344 Can you not see? 404 01:23:03,233 --> 01:23:05,277 Look at my left ear, please, sir. 405 01:23:06,111 --> 01:23:12,326 Thank you, and my right. Thank you. 406 01:23:13,118 --> 01:23:15,621 Would you follow my finger, please, sir. 407 01:23:28,634 --> 01:23:31,720 Just the eyes, Your Majesty, not the head. 408 01:23:37,851 --> 01:23:41,897 Well, it's perfectly simple, Johnston. The Emperor needs spectacles. 409 01:23:43,774 --> 01:23:45,567 Like Harold Lloyd! 410 01:23:45,692 --> 01:23:50,072 Impossible! An Emperor does not wear spectacles! 411 01:23:50,531 --> 01:23:52,157 That cannot be allowed! 412 01:23:52,282 --> 01:23:55,827 Times have changed, Your Highnesses! 413 01:24:10,676 --> 01:24:15,180 If His Majesty doesn't get spectacles, Johnston, he could lose his sight. 414 01:24:18,892 --> 01:24:22,938 Now, please, could you show me the way out of here? 415 01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:26,817 Your Majesty. 416 01:24:46,128 --> 01:24:49,631 If the Emperor does not get spectacles, I will resign. 417 01:24:50,299 --> 01:24:53,427 Unfortunately, our decision is final. 418 01:24:53,552 --> 01:24:58,974 And, unfortunately, what I have to say will be published in every newspaper in China. 419 01:25:02,519 --> 01:25:05,606 What do you have to say, Mr. Johnston? 420 01:25:07,024 --> 01:25:10,277 The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day 421 01:25:10,402 --> 01:25:13,655 that he was crowned and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. 422 01:25:13,780 --> 01:25:17,159 But now that he's growing up, he may wonder why he is the only person in China 423 01:25:17,284 --> 01:25:19,995 who may not walk out of his own front door. 424 01:25:22,539 --> 01:25:25,959 I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on earth. 425 01:25:28,420 --> 01:25:32,925 It would be conveniently sad if he becomes blind. 426 01:25:33,050 --> 01:25:35,761 Blind, Mr. Johnston? 427 01:25:36,929 --> 01:25:40,166 To the expense, Your Excellency. To the cost of 428 01:25:40,192 --> 01:25:43,293 maintaining one thousand two hundred eunuchs, 429 01:25:43,393 --> 01:25:45,270 three hundred and fifty ladies-in-waiting 430 01:25:45,395 --> 01:25:49,566 and one hundred and eighty-five cooks to buying a hundred 431 01:25:49,691 --> 01:25:54,071 and twenty sable furs a month and three thousand chickens a week. 432 01:25:54,196 --> 01:25:56,910 To the fact that eight hundred and forty guards 433 01:25:56,936 --> 01:25:59,309 and employees of the household department, 434 01:25:59,409 --> 01:26:03,413 plus one Lord Chamberlain, care only about one thing! 435 01:26:03,539 --> 01:26:06,834 Filling their own rice bowls! 436 01:26:07,292 --> 01:26:10,754 You are very good at accounts, Mr. Johnston! 437 01:26:10,879 --> 01:26:13,382 The Emperor may have abdicated, 438 01:26:13,966 --> 01:26:18,136 but he's still a symbol of great importance to many people. 439 01:26:19,638 --> 01:26:22,850 If I did not agree with that, I would not be here. 440 01:26:24,434 --> 01:26:30,524 And some of us believe that one day soon, he may be more than a symbol. 441 01:26:31,441 --> 01:26:33,443 The spectacles are a detail. 442 01:26:34,444 --> 01:26:37,281 What do you really want, Mr. Johnston? 443 01:26:38,031 --> 01:26:40,117 Just the spectacles. 444 01:27:37,591 --> 01:27:42,638 The Princess Wan Jung, Your Majesty. Seventeen years old. 445 01:27:55,692 --> 01:27:58,612 Princess Wu Chang, fifteen years old. 446 01:28:00,489 --> 01:28:07,371 The princess De Li, Your Majesty, and the Princess Fung Ying. 447 01:28:09,873 --> 01:28:12,376 The Princess Wang Ching. 448 01:28:24,888 --> 01:28:27,975 The Princess Shilean, sixteen years old. 449 01:28:33,647 --> 01:28:35,023 Who is this? 450 01:28:35,440 --> 01:28:38,527 Princess Wen Hsiu, twelve years old. 451 01:28:43,740 --> 01:28:45,742 She has got a funny face. 452 01:29:26,158 --> 01:29:29,953 Not just one wife. One empress and one secondary consort. 453 01:29:30,078 --> 01:29:33,373 - Two wives? - But who did you choose to be the Empress? 454 01:29:33,498 --> 01:29:37,294 They chose her! She's very old, Johnston! She's seventeen! 455 01:29:38,253 --> 01:29:41,882 That's not so old, Your Majesty. What does she look like? 456 01:29:42,007 --> 01:29:47,721 Old fashioned! I want a modern wife, Johnston, who speaks English and French! 457 01:29:50,432 --> 01:29:52,559 And who can dance the quickstep! 458 01:30:08,784 --> 01:30:10,160 Johnston! 459 01:30:12,371 --> 01:30:13,747 Sir! 460 01:30:14,039 --> 01:30:15,874 I'm going to escape, Johnston. 461 01:30:15,999 --> 01:30:18,961 I've got a suitcase, and a ticket to England. 462 01:30:19,086 --> 01:30:21,880 I'm going to Oxford University. 463 01:30:22,756 --> 01:30:28,679 Your Majesty, if you get married, you will become the master of your own house. 464 01:30:28,804 --> 01:30:32,516 A wedding might be a more practical way to escape. 465 01:31:12,472 --> 01:31:15,392 I suppose she's on her way by now. 466 01:31:16,435 --> 01:31:20,022 It will be all right. They do everything for you. 467 01:31:28,363 --> 01:31:31,742 Why did you never get married, Johnston? 468 01:31:45,923 --> 01:31:49,700 Your Mongolian cousin Prince Demchukedamgruv 469 01:31:49,726 --> 01:31:52,579 has sent you twelve racing camels. 470 01:31:53,180 --> 01:31:54,932 Plus this. 471 01:31:59,603 --> 01:32:02,856 On behalf of Manchuria. 472 01:32:07,945 --> 01:32:10,113 A lump of coal. 473 01:32:11,114 --> 01:32:13,116 Manchuria... 474 01:32:39,726 --> 01:32:43,213 The secondary consort welcomes the Empress. 475 01:32:43,239 --> 01:32:46,884 The Empress greets the secondary consort. 476 01:32:57,828 --> 01:32:59,496 You are doing everything very well. 477 01:32:59,621 --> 01:33:02,291 Thank you. I rehearsed many times. 478 01:34:49,898 --> 01:34:51,608 What is His Majesty thinking? 479 01:34:51,733 --> 01:34:56,989 I was thinking, if I was the real Emperor, I would become the ruler of China now. 480 01:34:58,115 --> 01:35:01,660 And what would the Emperor do, if he could really rule? 481 01:35:01,785 --> 01:35:05,247 I would change everything, even the way we get married. 482 01:35:06,623 --> 01:35:09,209 Is the Emperor against arranged marriages? 483 01:35:09,334 --> 01:35:12,504 It is humiliating not to choose whom you marry! 484 01:35:13,630 --> 01:35:16,216 Even I was not allowed to choose. 485 01:35:17,801 --> 01:35:20,012 And yet westerners might be amazed 486 01:35:20,137 --> 01:35:23,682 how much happiness can come from arranged marriages. 487 01:35:23,807 --> 01:35:27,436 That is what old-fashioned women say, like the high consorts. 488 01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:50,751 In another year or two, His Majesty will be taller than me. 489 01:35:52,294 --> 01:35:56,798 Is it true the Emperor has a suitcase under his bed and is going to Oxford? 490 01:35:58,592 --> 01:36:01,178 Will the Emperor take Wan Jung with him? 491 01:36:02,763 --> 01:36:06,600 Perhaps he would like to see my face before he decides. 492 01:36:08,018 --> 01:36:12,397 Yes, the Emperor would like to see the face of the Empress. 493 01:36:18,195 --> 01:36:21,031 It is the Emperor who must remove the kait'ou. 494 01:37:39,610 --> 01:37:42,779 I also had a tutor like Mr. Johnston. 495 01:37:45,782 --> 01:37:52,748 Miss Windsor. She's American. 496 01:38:12,851 --> 01:38:16,188 Miss Windsor taught me how to do the dance of the quickstep. 497 01:38:18,524 --> 01:38:20,859 Does the Emperor know how to do the quickstep? 498 01:38:22,361 --> 01:38:24,112 Will you teach me? 499 01:39:47,154 --> 01:39:48,947 Leave us! Leave us! 500 01:40:11,428 --> 01:40:15,050 If Your Majesty thinks it is old-fashioned to 501 01:40:15,076 --> 01:40:18,460 make the rain and the wind with a stranger, 502 01:40:18,560 --> 01:40:22,064 we can be like a modern couple, to begin with. 503 01:40:22,356 --> 01:40:23,732 A modern couple? 504 01:40:25,943 --> 01:40:27,319 Good night. 505 01:40:27,861 --> 01:40:29,238 Good night. 506 01:40:37,454 --> 01:40:39,456 You must come to Oxford with me. 507 01:40:47,631 --> 01:40:53,011 I like him! I am sure I am going to like him! 508 01:41:08,902 --> 01:41:10,571 And he will grow up! 509 01:41:11,530 --> 01:41:12,906 Eyes down! 510 01:41:20,289 --> 01:41:21,665 Report your arrival! 511 01:41:22,165 --> 01:41:24,334 Prisoner 981 reporting. 512 01:41:24,459 --> 01:41:27,629 - Louder! - Prisoner 981 reporting. 513 01:41:28,046 --> 01:41:29,423 Open the door! 514 01:41:35,721 --> 01:41:37,097 Close the door! 515 01:41:41,393 --> 01:41:42,769 Sit down! 516 01:41:47,858 --> 01:41:49,109 Name? 517 01:41:49,234 --> 01:41:50,861 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. 518 01:41:50,986 --> 01:41:52,362 Write it! 519 01:42:12,216 --> 01:42:13,842 Now read that aloud! 520 01:42:15,260 --> 01:42:19,973 Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist, 521 01:42:20,098 --> 01:42:22,976 Redemption to those who gain merits. 522 01:42:27,397 --> 01:42:31,527 Now than, there are two types of confession. 523 01:42:32,653 --> 01:42:36,865 We call them toothpaste and water tap. 524 01:42:37,449 --> 01:42:40,712 The toothpaste prisoner needs to be squeezed every 525 01:42:40,738 --> 01:42:44,064 now and then or else he forgets to keep confessing. 526 01:42:45,499 --> 01:42:50,212 The water tap man needs one good hard twist before he starts. 527 01:42:50,504 --> 01:42:52,047 But then everything comes out. 528 01:42:52,172 --> 01:42:58,554 Now, you're an intelligent person. I'm sure you understand me. 529 01:42:59,096 --> 01:43:02,266 Good. Then we will begin. 530 01:43:04,017 --> 01:43:06,854 Why do you think you are in here, 981? 531 01:43:06,979 --> 01:43:12,484 I'm accused of being a traitor, a collaborator, and a counter-revolutionary. 532 01:43:12,609 --> 01:43:14,236 It is not an accusation! 533 01:43:14,361 --> 01:43:18,991 You are a traitor, you are a collaborator, and you are a counter-revolutionary!! 534 01:43:26,164 --> 01:43:30,627 Did you write this? And you call it a confession? 535 01:43:30,752 --> 01:43:34,590 This is nothing but a list of dates! A child's fairy tale! 536 01:43:45,893 --> 01:43:47,311 What do you want me to confess? 537 01:43:47,436 --> 01:43:50,564 You know what you did and what others did. 538 01:43:50,689 --> 01:43:53,066 So why don't you volunteer the information? 539 01:43:53,192 --> 01:43:54,735 I do not understand. 540 01:43:54,860 --> 01:44:00,157 We don't tell people what to confess. We already know everything about you. 541 01:44:07,956 --> 01:44:09,333 I... 542 01:44:10,167 --> 01:44:11,543 Go on. 543 01:44:12,252 --> 01:44:14,505 I wanted reforms. 544 01:44:14,630 --> 01:44:17,883 What did you want to reform? 545 01:44:18,008 --> 01:44:19,510 Everything. 546 01:44:35,108 --> 01:44:41,782 Chang, you have a house outside the Forbidden City. Do you not? 547 01:44:43,659 --> 01:44:47,746 - Yes, Your Majesty. - It has 20 rooms, I understand. 548 01:44:53,669 --> 01:44:55,796 And you also have houses. 549 01:44:55,921 --> 01:44:59,424 Oh, we all do, Your Majesty. 550 01:45:00,050 --> 01:45:05,639 I recently learned that many pieces from the Imperial collections are on sale 551 01:45:05,764 --> 01:45:09,685 in antique shops in Peking. Is that true, Cheng? 552 01:47:12,558 --> 01:47:15,811 - Would you do me a favor, Wen Hsiu? - Of course. 553 01:47:16,311 --> 01:47:18,313 Stop growing. 554 01:47:49,720 --> 01:47:54,099 The Forbidden City is a theater without an audience. 555 01:47:54,850 --> 01:47:59,229 The audience left long ago when China became a republic. 556 01:48:03,233 --> 01:48:07,196 - Cut off my queue. - Your Majesty! Please! 557 01:48:42,022 --> 01:48:43,273 It is heavy! 558 01:48:43,398 --> 01:48:49,279 The Emperor before me was murdered because he wanted to reform the empire. 559 01:48:49,404 --> 01:48:51,198 Is that not so, Mr. Johnston? 560 01:48:51,323 --> 01:48:54,493 Yes, Your Majesty, probably. 561 01:48:54,618 --> 01:49:00,374 Well, let us see if they will kill me for reforming the Forbidden City. 562 01:49:00,499 --> 01:49:05,128 Lord Chamberlain! I'm appointing Mr. Johnston's friend, 563 01:49:05,254 --> 01:49:09,091 the poet and scholar, Chin Hsiao Hsiu, to be the new Lord Chamberlain. 564 01:49:09,216 --> 01:49:14,388 I want him to supervise a detailed inventory of the Imperial storerooms! 565 01:49:14,513 --> 01:49:18,517 So that we can learn exactly how much has been stolen! 566 01:50:04,897 --> 01:50:08,358 Can I sleep here? I am frightened. 567 01:50:25,918 --> 01:50:30,297 You're brave. Are you not frightened? 568 01:50:31,131 --> 01:50:36,845 I am excited. I do not want to escape anymore. 569 01:50:37,971 --> 01:50:39,473 I want to rule. 570 01:50:42,768 --> 01:50:44,144 Kiss me. 571 01:51:13,841 --> 01:51:15,801 Can I stay with you as well? 572 01:51:18,178 --> 01:51:20,389 Get in. Get in. 573 01:51:40,951 --> 01:51:43,704 I used to play a game with the eunuchs. 574 01:51:47,291 --> 01:51:50,419 Trying to guess who is who. 575 01:51:52,296 --> 01:51:54,131 Now I cannot see you! 576 01:52:04,349 --> 01:52:08,729 Wan Jung? Wen Hsiu? 577 01:52:11,148 --> 01:52:13,150 Come underneath the sheet with us. 578 01:53:53,625 --> 01:53:57,171 Your Majesty! The storeroom's on fire, Your Majesty! 579 01:54:12,477 --> 01:54:16,015 Chang Chinghui, did you not write a poem about 580 01:54:16,041 --> 01:54:19,051 a spider who gets caught in his own web? 581 01:54:20,569 --> 01:54:26,700 I did not know Your Majesty had read my poetry. I'm very honored. 582 01:54:26,825 --> 01:54:28,869 I'm the spider. 583 01:54:28,994 --> 01:54:33,999 The eunuchs set fire to this place to stop me knowing what they have stolen. 584 01:54:34,124 --> 01:54:37,503 I'm going to expel them from the Forbidden City. 585 01:54:37,628 --> 01:54:41,006 There are twelve hundred eunuchs, Your Majesty. 586 01:54:41,131 --> 01:54:43,509 They have been here for eight hundred years. 587 01:54:43,634 --> 01:54:45,636 It will be dangerous. 588 01:54:45,761 --> 01:54:48,722 Do you think the republican government would help me? 589 01:54:48,847 --> 01:54:54,728 The republicans will do almost anything if you know who to speak to. 590 01:54:54,853 --> 01:54:56,897 It must happen quickly. 591 01:54:57,147 --> 01:55:00,400 Before they burn the whole place with us inside. 592 01:56:03,839 --> 01:56:08,927 I lived with them all my life, Johnston. They're my family. 593 01:56:09,052 --> 01:56:12,306 Your Majesty, there is no alternative. 594 01:56:28,447 --> 01:56:32,242 - What is happening? - I don't know. 595 01:56:44,046 --> 01:56:45,422 What are they carrying? 596 01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:48,217 Their organs. 597 01:56:48,967 --> 01:56:52,364 Whatever their crimes, they cannot be deprived 598 01:56:52,390 --> 01:56:55,207 of the right to be buried as whole men. 599 01:57:51,697 --> 01:57:53,073 Well? 600 01:57:58,829 --> 01:58:00,539 I have forgot what I was saying. 601 01:58:00,664 --> 01:58:02,207 You're wasting our time! 602 01:58:02,332 --> 01:58:04,835 We want to know about the Japanese. 603 01:58:08,714 --> 01:58:11,258 How did your friendship with the Japanese begin? 604 01:58:11,383 --> 01:58:13,468 Who introduced you? When? 605 01:58:16,513 --> 01:58:24,513 It was... I think it was the new Lord Chamberlain, Chin Hsiao Hsiu. It was 1924. 606 01:58:27,774 --> 01:58:31,778 Parliament had been dissolved again. The president had fled. 607 01:58:31,904 --> 01:58:38,911 At first, I thought it was just another a coup d'etat by just another warlord. 608 01:58:40,412 --> 01:58:46,793 Only this time it was different. This time it was my turn. 609 01:58:50,130 --> 01:58:52,466 Fifteen, love. 610 01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:17,616 Play. 611 01:59:24,414 --> 01:59:27,501 Your Highness, how shocking. 612 01:59:27,626 --> 01:59:29,378 Thirty love. 613 01:59:31,421 --> 01:59:32,923 Ready? 614 01:59:39,304 --> 01:59:41,431 Thirty, fifteen. 615 02:00:19,011 --> 02:00:22,181 The rotten government of the republic is in flight! 616 02:00:22,639 --> 02:00:25,287 Now we shall remove the foreign stench of the 617 02:00:25,313 --> 02:00:28,420 Manchurian rats who still hide in the Forbidden City. 618 02:00:45,662 --> 02:00:52,127 Mr. Pu Yi and his family have been given one hour to leave the Forbidden City. 619 02:00:53,712 --> 02:00:56,590 They will be escorted to the home of his father 620 02:00:56,715 --> 02:01:03,722 and remain there under guard as state prisoners until further notice. 621 02:01:09,811 --> 02:01:13,857 What are you all looking at? What are you standing there for? 622 02:01:13,982 --> 02:01:16,068 You always wanted to leave the Forbidden City. 623 02:01:16,193 --> 02:01:22,407 Now you're got an hour to pack. So, go! Go! 624 02:01:35,087 --> 02:01:42,261 I always thought I hated it here. Now, I'm afraid to leave. 625 02:01:43,178 --> 02:01:44,429 Do you think they will kill me? 626 02:01:44,555 --> 02:01:49,226 You must do as they say, Your Majesty, while I try to reach the British Embassy. 627 02:01:49,351 --> 02:01:54,982 They will give you asylum there. I'm sure they will. 628 02:01:55,566 --> 02:01:59,486 Chang, take my car to the South gate! I want you to drive His Majesty. 629 02:03:29,159 --> 02:03:30,536 Your Majesty! 630 02:04:23,797 --> 02:04:25,048 Please, Your Majesty! 631 02:04:25,174 --> 02:04:26,550 What? 632 02:05:37,079 --> 02:05:40,123 But you didn't go to the British Embassy, did you? 633 02:05:40,249 --> 02:05:42,459 You ended up at the Japanese Embassy. 634 02:05:42,584 --> 02:05:45,462 The Japanese were the only people prepared to help me. 635 02:05:45,587 --> 02:05:46,964 Help you for nothing? 636 02:05:49,424 --> 02:05:52,553 Japan has an Emperor. We're almost the same age. 637 02:05:53,387 --> 02:05:55,180 I thought it was kindness. 638 02:05:56,598 --> 02:06:00,811 At the same time, I realized that, for many Chinese, I was an alien. 639 02:06:00,936 --> 02:06:03,730 Simply because I am Manchurian. 640 02:06:04,523 --> 02:06:09,194 There was even an anti-Manchurian league who wanted to assassinate me! 641 02:06:09,820 --> 02:06:12,531 So, I went to live in Tientsin. 642 02:06:14,491 --> 02:06:18,954 There was a nice provincial town with a big port. 643 02:06:19,413 --> 02:06:23,166 In those days, we had a large, international settlement. 644 02:06:23,292 --> 02:06:25,878 The Japanese thought it would be safer for me there. 645 02:06:26,003 --> 02:06:29,381 If you had read the books we gave you more carefully, 646 02:06:29,506 --> 02:06:32,434 you might have learned that the anti-Manchurian 647 02:06:32,460 --> 02:06:35,204 league was largely financed by the Japanese. 648 02:06:35,304 --> 02:06:37,639 It was designed to frighten you. 649 02:06:37,931 --> 02:06:39,933 I did not know that at the time. 650 02:06:40,517 --> 02:06:43,687 - Cigarette? - I do not smoke. 651 02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:47,900 Were the Japanese paying for you in Tientsin? 652 02:06:48,025 --> 02:06:49,401 Oh, no. 653 02:06:50,027 --> 02:06:55,616 I had to rent a villa, the Villa Chan, and it was very expensive. 654 02:06:55,741 --> 02:06:57,784 So were the bodyguards. 655 02:06:59,161 --> 02:07:01,538 I spent a lot of money in Tientsin. 656 02:07:01,663 --> 02:07:05,709 Did you still believe in a restoration of the Imperial system? 657 02:07:05,834 --> 02:07:09,213 Others did. They were later caught and exiled. 658 02:07:10,589 --> 02:07:13,592 I cannot remember how much jade and jewelry they made me 659 02:07:13,717 --> 02:07:19,306 spend to buy the friendship of some warlord or some white Russian general. 660 02:07:20,474 --> 02:07:24,561 I even financed an English speaking newspaper. 661 02:07:24,686 --> 02:07:27,439 They closed after three days. It was unreadable. 662 02:07:27,564 --> 02:07:29,274 And what else did you spend your money on? 663 02:07:29,399 --> 02:07:34,279 Oh, I was never tired of buying pianos, watches, radios... 664 02:07:34,404 --> 02:07:36,365 As long as they were foreign! 665 02:07:36,490 --> 02:07:40,285 Of course. Anything Western was good. 666 02:07:40,619 --> 02:07:44,790 Especially Wrigley's chewing gum, Bayer aspirin, and cars. 667 02:07:44,915 --> 02:07:47,992 While you were in Tientsin, most of China came 668 02:07:48,018 --> 02:07:51,029 under the control of General Chiang Kai Shek, 669 02:07:51,129 --> 02:07:55,384 the so-called Nationalists, the Kuomintang. 670 02:07:55,801 --> 02:07:57,845 What were your relations with them? 671 02:07:57,970 --> 02:07:59,346 None. 672 02:08:01,265 --> 02:08:06,436 I felt useless in Tientsin. I was twenty-one. 673 02:08:07,229 --> 02:08:09,898 I dreamt of going to the West. 674 02:08:11,149 --> 02:08:12,776 I became a playboy. 675 02:08:17,739 --> 02:08:23,579 Am I blue. Am I blue. 676 02:08:24,121 --> 02:08:32,121 Ain't these tears in my eyes telling you. Am I blue? 677 02:08:33,672 --> 02:08:38,949 You'd be, too. If each plan with your girl done fell through. 678 02:08:38,975 --> 02:08:41,697 Was a time, I was her only one. 679 02:08:49,605 --> 02:08:57,605 But now I'm the sad and lonely one. Boo-Boo-Boo, Boo-Boo-Boo. 680 02:09:02,784 --> 02:09:10,784 Now she's gone and we're through. Lord, I'm blue. 681 02:09:22,262 --> 02:09:24,848 - Very good. - Well done. 682 02:10:01,468 --> 02:10:03,929 That's a great ship, if you're going first-class. 683 02:10:07,057 --> 02:10:08,934 I'm not going anywhere. 684 02:10:13,522 --> 02:10:15,023 Would you like to dance? 685 02:10:24,533 --> 02:10:27,870 You're a brave man. Nobody here would have danced with me. 686 02:10:27,995 --> 02:10:29,496 Why is that? 687 02:10:31,206 --> 02:10:35,169 - Because I'm Chinese. - Well, I'm American. 688 02:10:46,221 --> 02:10:49,433 You say California. I say French Riviera. 689 02:10:49,558 --> 02:10:51,018 San Francisco! 690 02:10:51,143 --> 02:10:56,064 Monte Carlo! Are we really going this time? 691 02:11:05,908 --> 02:11:09,828 - Who's that couple? - Oh, Henry and Elizabeth. 692 02:11:10,871 --> 02:11:14,541 - The Emperor of China? - The ex-Emperor and his wife. 693 02:11:16,919 --> 02:11:20,088 - She's beautiful. - Yes, very. 694 02:11:20,214 --> 02:11:21,690 And who are you? 695 02:11:22,090 --> 02:11:24,051 I'm His Highness's other wife. 696 02:11:24,176 --> 02:11:27,137 - His other wife? - Number two wife. 697 02:11:28,430 --> 02:11:30,724 Well, some people have the luck. 698 02:11:47,115 --> 02:11:48,992 Ladies and gentlemen! 699 02:11:52,120 --> 02:11:56,291 General Chiang Kai Shek has taken Shanghai! 700 02:11:56,708 --> 02:12:01,588 The Kuomintang have broken with the Reds and have knocked them for six! 701 02:12:01,713 --> 02:12:03,090 The Reds are finished! 702 02:12:10,514 --> 02:12:11,974 Sorry about the reception, everyone! 703 02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:17,437 It would be wiser to return to the Japanese delegation now, Your Majesty. 704 02:12:17,563 --> 02:12:20,607 - Your car is waiting. - Thank you, Mr. Amakasu. 705 02:12:34,162 --> 02:12:37,499 The general strike in Shanghai has collapsed. 706 02:12:38,458 --> 02:12:41,336 The international settlement is safe. 707 02:12:42,421 --> 02:12:46,592 Troops of the Kuomintang are now in full control of the city. 708 02:12:46,717 --> 02:12:52,389 And firm steps are being taken to restore order in the native areas. 709 02:13:14,912 --> 02:13:17,414 What do you think of General Chiang Kai Shek? 710 02:13:17,539 --> 02:13:21,418 What should I think of him? He's just another warlord. 711 02:13:21,543 --> 02:13:24,213 Well, he has mashed the Communists. 712 02:13:24,338 --> 02:13:30,344 That's good. Except the Communists were his sworn allies until a few days ago. 713 02:13:31,345 --> 02:13:33,555 I expect he betrayed them for money. 714 02:13:34,723 --> 02:13:36,975 - You want some gum, Elizabeth? - Uh-huh. 715 02:13:46,026 --> 02:13:49,154 Wen Hsiu, you want some gum? 716 02:13:52,991 --> 02:13:54,701 I want a divorce. 717 02:14:08,674 --> 02:14:11,593 I do not want to be your mistress any longer. 718 02:14:11,718 --> 02:14:14,221 I thought you were my secondary consort. 719 02:14:14,346 --> 02:14:19,268 In the Forbidden City, you were the Emperor and I was a secondary consort. 720 02:14:20,018 --> 02:14:22,354 But now you are Henry Pu Yi. 721 02:14:22,479 --> 02:14:25,774 Wan Jung is your wife, Elizabeth. 722 02:14:27,568 --> 02:14:32,865 And who am I? I'm nobody. 723 02:14:44,459 --> 02:14:46,962 I did not know you were so unhappy. 724 02:14:52,217 --> 02:14:54,928 You can only have one wife in the West. 725 02:15:00,767 --> 02:15:02,352 I want a divorce. 726 02:15:02,477 --> 02:15:04,521 No one can divorce me! 727 02:15:31,965 --> 02:15:33,759 I want a divorce! 728 02:15:45,896 --> 02:15:47,314 Come inside with me? 729 02:15:47,439 --> 02:15:48,941 Leave me alone. 730 02:16:27,271 --> 02:16:28,730 Your Ladyship! 731 02:16:35,153 --> 02:16:36,530 Thank you. 732 02:16:51,587 --> 02:16:52,963 I do not need it! 733 02:16:57,593 --> 02:16:58,969 I do not need it! 734 02:17:29,374 --> 02:17:30,751 Wen Hsiu? 735 02:17:41,929 --> 02:17:43,972 Elizabeth! Can I come in? 736 02:17:44,806 --> 02:17:50,270 Don't you remember me? I'm dressed like a pilot, but I still can't fly! Not yet. 737 02:17:50,395 --> 02:17:53,649 Eastern Jewel! We had dancing classes together! 738 02:17:53,774 --> 02:17:55,651 Yes, just before your marriage. 739 02:17:56,068 --> 02:17:58,987 Silly girl! Why do people want to get married? 740 02:17:59,863 --> 02:18:04,493 Wen Hsiu has gone. She will never come back. 741 02:18:04,618 --> 02:18:06,094 Is it so bad? 742 02:18:07,663 --> 02:18:09,164 She was my only friend. 743 02:18:11,083 --> 02:18:14,211 Well, at least now you've got your husband all to yourself! 744 02:18:16,338 --> 02:18:17,714 And you've got me! 745 02:18:19,716 --> 02:18:21,460 I'll be your friend. 746 02:18:22,261 --> 02:18:24,220 - You smoke opium? - Be wicked. 747 02:18:24,345 --> 02:18:29,643 It's the best in Shanghai! Why are you going to Europe? 748 02:18:29,768 --> 02:18:33,522 The place to go is Japan! It's more fun than anywhere! 749 02:18:34,773 --> 02:18:36,149 It's modern. 750 02:18:37,693 --> 02:18:40,904 How do you know we're going to Europe? It is a secret. 751 02:18:41,029 --> 02:18:42,823 Oh, I know everything! 752 02:18:43,782 --> 02:18:47,286 I know Chiang Kai Shek has got false teeth. 753 02:18:47,870 --> 02:18:50,372 I even know his nickname, "cash my check!" 754 02:18:54,751 --> 02:18:59,173 I'm a spy. And I don't care who knows it. 755 02:18:59,298 --> 02:19:00,632 A spy? 756 02:19:00,757 --> 02:19:02,968 I work for the Japanese Special Service Bureau, 757 02:19:03,510 --> 02:19:05,387 and I've come to protect you. 758 02:19:07,055 --> 02:19:12,436 The Japanese. They are getting closer to him every day. 759 02:19:13,812 --> 02:19:17,691 He is sending his brother to the military academy in Tokyo. 760 02:19:17,816 --> 02:19:21,028 They talk to him about Manchuria all the time. 761 02:19:22,571 --> 02:19:25,490 And Mr. Amakasu never says hello to me. 762 02:19:25,908 --> 02:19:27,701 I do not trust the Japanese. 763 02:19:54,895 --> 02:19:57,523 Of course, I'd love to be the Emperor's new secondary consort! 764 02:19:57,648 --> 02:19:59,024 Eastern Jewel. 765 02:19:59,358 --> 02:20:00,943 If the post is available. 766 02:20:19,753 --> 02:20:22,256 The post is vacant, my dear cousin. 767 02:20:24,716 --> 02:20:26,468 But you do not fit the part! 768 02:20:30,055 --> 02:20:32,349 Wen Hsiu left the dog behind. Do you want it? 769 02:20:35,310 --> 02:20:39,356 It is my fault. It is all my fault. 770 02:21:11,847 --> 02:21:17,144 I came to see you, Your Majesty, to give you bad news. 771 02:21:18,270 --> 02:21:19,813 Something terrible has happened. 772 02:21:26,069 --> 02:21:32,201 The Imperial tombs of our Manchurian ancestors have been attacked and robbed 773 02:21:32,326 --> 02:21:36,830 by troops of the Kuomintang. Chinese soldiers. 774 02:21:37,331 --> 02:21:40,000 A warlord working for Chiang Kai Shek. 775 02:21:43,504 --> 02:21:49,134 The body of the Empress Dowager was hacked to pieces. 776 02:21:50,844 --> 02:21:53,965 Her pearl necklace has become a wedding 777 02:21:53,991 --> 02:21:57,501 present from Chiang Kai Shek to his new wife. 778 02:22:20,415 --> 02:22:22,918 Prisoner 981 reporting. 779 02:22:23,043 --> 02:22:24,419 Open the door! 780 02:22:27,714 --> 02:22:29,091 Close the door! 781 02:22:37,850 --> 02:22:41,061 Tell me, 981. Do you consider yourself to be Chinese? 782 02:22:41,186 --> 02:22:43,146 - Of course. - What is this? 783 02:22:43,272 --> 02:22:44,648 Japan. 784 02:22:44,815 --> 02:22:46,441 And what do you call this part of China? 785 02:22:46,567 --> 02:22:49,111 - The Northeast. - And what did you call it as a child? 786 02:22:49,236 --> 02:22:50,612 Manchuria. 787 02:22:51,071 --> 02:22:54,950 Japan invaded Manchuria on September eighteenth, 1931 788 02:22:55,075 --> 02:22:57,911 and began to set up a puppet state called Manchukuo. 789 02:22:58,036 --> 02:23:02,749 Shortly afterwards, a Japanese delegation paid you a secret visit in Tientsin 790 02:23:02,875 --> 02:23:05,627 to request your collaboration, which you say you refused. 791 02:23:05,752 --> 02:23:07,129 Speak up! 792 02:23:07,838 --> 02:23:10,299 I've already told you. I have told you a hundred times. 793 02:23:10,424 --> 02:23:12,176 Tell us again! Tell us two hundred times! 794 02:23:12,301 --> 02:23:14,178 I refused to collaborate. 795 02:23:14,303 --> 02:23:19,600 You say you refused, but a month later, on November tenth, 1931, 796 02:23:19,725 --> 02:23:23,812 there you are arriving in Manchuria, or should I call it Manchukuo? 797 02:23:24,104 --> 02:23:26,667 Now, according to this so-called confession of 798 02:23:26,693 --> 02:23:29,092 yours, you didn't go of your own free will! 799 02:23:29,193 --> 02:23:31,778 You insist that you were kidnapped by the Japanese! 800 02:23:31,904 --> 02:23:33,989 - Yes. - And taken to Manchuria by force! 801 02:23:34,114 --> 02:23:36,283 - Yes! - Sit down! 802 02:23:39,119 --> 02:23:43,040 Do you remember a man called Reginald Fleming Johnston? 803 02:23:44,291 --> 02:23:45,951 He was your tutor. 804 02:23:46,919 --> 02:23:48,420 Yes. 805 02:23:48,837 --> 02:23:51,381 And a good friend, I believe. 806 02:23:53,217 --> 02:23:58,514 After twenty-eight years in China, Mr. Johnston returned to England. 807 02:23:59,139 --> 02:24:04,478 He became a professor of Oriental studies at London University, 808 02:24:04,811 --> 02:24:12,110 and he wrote a book. It is called Twilight in the Forbidden City, 809 02:24:12,236 --> 02:24:14,863 and it is dedicated to you. 810 02:24:42,349 --> 02:24:44,309 I am going to miss you, Johnston. 811 02:24:44,434 --> 02:24:46,395 I shall miss you, Your Majesty. 812 02:24:54,027 --> 02:24:58,532 Do you think a man can become Emperor again? 813 02:24:59,324 --> 02:25:00,701 Yes. 814 02:25:23,348 --> 02:25:25,184 Thank you, Your Majesty. 815 02:25:35,027 --> 02:25:36,778 How can we say "Good-bye"? 816 02:25:38,822 --> 02:25:40,782 As we said, "Hello." 817 02:25:53,170 --> 02:25:55,130 Farewell, Mr. Johnston. 818 02:25:55,255 --> 02:25:57,591 Farewell, Your Majesty. 819 02:26:04,056 --> 02:26:08,268 All aboard! All aboard! 820 02:26:10,145 --> 02:26:11,522 Thank you, sir. 821 02:26:48,100 --> 02:26:52,896 Good-bye, Mr. Johnston! We'll never forget you, Mr. Johnston. 822 02:26:53,146 --> 02:26:58,318 Good-bye! Mr. Johnston! Good-bye! Good-bye! 823 02:26:58,443 --> 02:27:00,612 All aboard! 824 02:27:02,865 --> 02:27:09,454 On page four-hundred and forty-nine, Mr. Johnston writes, 825 02:27:09,580 --> 02:27:13,356 The endeavor to make out that the Emperor had 826 02:27:13,382 --> 02:27:17,404 been kidnapped by the Japanese is wholly untrue. 827 02:27:18,839 --> 02:27:22,759 He left Tientsin and went to Manchuria of his own free will. 828 02:27:22,885 --> 02:27:24,386 Johnston was a liar! 829 02:27:25,262 --> 02:27:28,557 What did you say? I didn't hear you. 830 02:27:28,682 --> 02:27:33,103 Mr. Johnston had left before I was taken to Manchuria. 831 02:27:33,687 --> 02:27:35,772 He could not have known what happened. 832 02:27:55,834 --> 02:27:57,211 Sit down! 833 02:28:05,886 --> 02:28:08,722 Is this your confession, 895? 834 02:28:09,760 --> 02:28:11,907 - Yes. - According to this account, 835 02:28:12,032 --> 02:28:14,603 you prepared the man's things on the morning of November ninth! 836 02:28:14,728 --> 02:28:18,357 Isn't it unusual for a man who's kidnapped to have his luggage packed 837 02:28:18,482 --> 02:28:20,901 by his valet the day before he's kidnapped? 838 02:28:22,110 --> 02:28:24,071 This is what you've written, isn't it? 839 02:28:24,696 --> 02:28:27,866 Who told you to pack this man's luggage? 840 02:28:30,744 --> 02:28:34,039 These two stories don't fit, do they? 841 02:28:35,290 --> 02:28:40,295 It was a long time ago. Perhaps I made a mistake. 842 02:28:40,420 --> 02:28:42,005 You are lying! 843 02:28:42,130 --> 02:28:43,966 You are both lying! 844 02:28:44,091 --> 02:28:45,467 Control yourself! 845 02:28:49,346 --> 02:28:53,100 My family was buried alive in Manchukuo. 846 02:28:54,852 --> 02:28:59,731 My mother digged her own grave because of people like them. 847 02:29:00,524 --> 02:29:03,986 Smash the enemies. Smash them forever. 848 02:29:04,111 --> 02:29:05,487 Enough. 849 02:29:25,716 --> 02:29:28,468 These might help you to remember the truth. 850 02:29:56,455 --> 02:29:58,332 What made you write that? 851 02:29:59,958 --> 02:30:01,627 It is the truth. 852 02:30:17,684 --> 02:30:19,853 Chen Pao Shen wishes you a safe journey. 853 02:30:20,854 --> 02:30:23,524 You mean he refuses to say goodbye to me. 854 02:30:24,566 --> 02:30:27,277 He will see me when he comes to my coronation. 855 02:30:29,071 --> 02:30:33,075 Request a truce. In case you change your mind. 856 02:30:36,495 --> 02:30:41,166 I am the hereditary ruler of the Manchurian people. 857 02:30:43,502 --> 02:30:47,047 There can be no Manchukuo without me. 858 02:30:48,048 --> 02:30:51,718 Do you not see? The Japanese are using you. 859 02:30:52,553 --> 02:30:54,471 I must try to use them. 860 02:30:55,347 --> 02:30:59,560 The Japanese invasion of Manchuria will be condemned by the League of Nations 861 02:30:59,685 --> 02:31:01,895 and by every civilized country on earth! 862 02:31:02,020 --> 02:31:05,315 The Chinese Republic has broken every promise it ever made to me! 863 02:31:05,440 --> 02:31:08,902 Chinese troops desecrated the tombs of my ancestors! 864 02:31:09,027 --> 02:31:12,573 And Chinese troops did not defend Manchuria from the Japanese! 865 02:31:12,698 --> 02:31:15,117 But Manchuria is still China! 866 02:31:15,242 --> 02:31:17,286 China has turned its back on me. 867 02:31:17,411 --> 02:31:19,121 Please, do not go. 868 02:31:19,246 --> 02:31:22,249 Manchuria is the richest frontier in Asia! 869 02:31:22,374 --> 02:31:24,835 Coal, oil, railways! 870 02:31:25,252 --> 02:31:28,547 Millions of Chinese immigrants are going there every year! 871 02:31:28,881 --> 02:31:30,799 I'm going to build my country. 872 02:31:40,475 --> 02:31:42,936 Chen Pao Shen: If you go, you betray your country. 873 02:31:46,648 --> 02:31:48,025 Which country? 874 02:31:51,612 --> 02:31:54,239 Johnston was wrong, but he wasn't a liar. 875 02:31:54,781 --> 02:31:56,783 There was no kidnapping! 876 02:31:57,159 --> 02:32:01,622 You went to Manchuria by your own choice, because you wanted to be Emperor again! 877 02:32:03,624 --> 02:32:08,045 You will rewrite your confessions from the beginning! 878 02:32:08,629 --> 02:32:10,005 Guard! 879 02:32:10,839 --> 02:32:12,299 Take these people away! 880 02:32:15,802 --> 02:32:17,179 Out! 881 02:34:37,778 --> 02:34:39,279 To heaven. 882 02:34:46,870 --> 02:34:48,247 To earth. 883 02:34:51,458 --> 02:34:56,755 Chen Pao Shen is a fool. How could he miss the birth of a new country? 884 02:35:00,133 --> 02:35:03,595 It looks like the inauguration of a factory. 885 02:35:04,805 --> 02:35:06,306 To the moon. 886 02:35:10,811 --> 02:35:12,729 To the sun. 887 02:35:37,379 --> 02:35:39,006 You're an empress again. 888 02:35:40,799 --> 02:35:42,801 What I'm going to be is a pilot! 889 02:35:43,218 --> 02:35:47,472 I'm going to train at a secret base near Yokohama to learn precision bombing. 890 02:35:48,849 --> 02:35:51,518 I want to bomb Shanghai. 891 02:35:52,603 --> 02:35:54,313 Bomb Shanghai? 892 02:35:54,438 --> 02:35:56,148 I hate China! 893 02:36:02,946 --> 02:36:04,823 I hate you. 894 02:38:02,649 --> 02:38:04,526 The Japanese Army High Command! 895 02:38:04,651 --> 02:38:06,111 Very impressive! 896 02:38:07,321 --> 02:38:10,115 The Japanese Army! 897 02:38:20,209 --> 02:38:21,585 Quickly! 898 02:38:40,062 --> 02:38:44,525 On behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the commander of the Kantong Army 899 02:38:44,650 --> 02:38:50,364 extends his warmest congratulations on the occasion of His Majesty's coronation. 900 02:39:41,832 --> 02:39:44,209 Manchukuo will grow into a bright vision. 901 02:39:44,585 --> 02:39:48,005 Japan will always be on the side of the Emperor. 902 02:40:52,486 --> 02:40:57,282 Uh, may I introduce you? My wife, the Princess Hiro Saga. 903 02:40:57,991 --> 02:40:59,785 Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu. 904 02:41:05,916 --> 02:41:08,752 Honorable Chang Chinghui, Minister of Defense. 905 02:41:10,170 --> 02:41:12,798 The monseigneur, Monseigneur Colonna. 906 02:41:28,188 --> 02:41:31,483 The Empress and I accept with great pleasure. 907 02:41:38,866 --> 02:41:40,242 Excuse me, General. 908 02:42:03,849 --> 02:42:07,692 Ahh! And now Mr. Amakasu. He's the new chief 909 02:42:07,718 --> 02:42:11,048 of the Manchuria Motion Picture Studio. 910 02:42:21,074 --> 02:42:25,204 Why do you have to spoil this day? Why? 911 02:42:27,623 --> 02:42:32,294 Mr. Amakasu is the most powerful man in Manchukuo. 912 02:42:32,836 --> 02:42:34,796 What are you talking about? 913 02:42:35,964 --> 02:42:39,801 You did not believe I could be Emperor again, but I am. 914 02:42:40,385 --> 02:42:42,179 You are blind. 915 02:42:52,439 --> 02:42:53,982 Do you know what it means to be an empress? 916 02:42:54,107 --> 02:42:55,484 You are an empress! 917 02:43:00,447 --> 02:43:02,449 Why do you not make love to me anymore? 918 02:43:02,574 --> 02:43:04,743 Because you have become an opium addict. 919 02:43:05,494 --> 02:43:09,748 Opium killed my mother. Opium destroyed China. 920 02:43:09,873 --> 02:43:12,292 You can buy opium anywhere in Manchukuo! 921 02:43:12,417 --> 02:43:13,877 - Shut up! - In any shop. 922 02:43:14,002 --> 02:43:15,379 Shut up! 923 02:43:19,216 --> 02:43:21,510 Your brother is going to have a child. 924 02:43:24,429 --> 02:43:29,601 We must have a child. We must have an heir. 925 02:43:31,311 --> 02:43:35,732 Emperor Hirohito has officially invited us to Japan. 926 02:43:36,441 --> 02:43:40,529 I'm going alone. You are staying here. 927 02:43:43,115 --> 02:43:44,950 I would never go to Japan. 928 02:43:45,075 --> 02:43:46,451 Then go to your room! 929 02:43:54,334 --> 02:43:57,880 Ten thousand years to His Majesty, the Emperor! 930 02:43:59,506 --> 02:44:03,218 Ten thousand years! 931 02:44:03,343 --> 02:44:06,096 Ten thousand years to His Majesty! 932 02:44:07,472 --> 02:44:09,391 To His Majesty, ten thousand years! 933 02:45:20,128 --> 02:45:22,798 I told you, I hate you. 934 02:45:25,592 --> 02:45:27,761 Only because I give you what you need. 935 02:46:03,505 --> 02:46:05,090 Now we're engaged. 936 02:46:36,163 --> 02:46:38,290 - Good morning. - Good morning. 937 02:46:50,302 --> 02:46:52,346 Good morning, sir. 938 02:47:42,521 --> 02:47:43,981 You forgot my toothpowder. 939 02:47:44,106 --> 02:47:47,234 Oh... yes, sir. 940 02:48:06,712 --> 02:48:08,088 Move him! 941 02:48:13,260 --> 02:48:15,637 981! Collect your things! 942 02:48:19,183 --> 02:48:21,226 I said, collect your things! 943 02:48:44,124 --> 02:48:46,335 Keep to the story. That is an order. 944 02:49:03,435 --> 02:49:04,811 Upstairs! 945 02:49:09,399 --> 02:49:10,776 Stop! 946 02:49:19,243 --> 02:49:26,458 Your laces are undone. Do them up! 947 02:49:31,630 --> 02:49:33,048 Thursday, you serve lunch. 948 02:49:33,173 --> 02:49:34,633 Friday, you clean the toilet. 949 02:49:34,758 --> 02:49:36,760 Saturday, you sweep the floor. 950 02:50:05,038 --> 02:50:07,583 I have never been separated from my family. 951 02:50:07,708 --> 02:50:09,626 You'd better get used to it! 952 02:50:25,976 --> 02:50:30,439 It's not so bad. People get used to anything. 953 02:50:30,564 --> 02:50:33,066 You do not remember me, do you? 954 02:50:40,574 --> 02:50:44,203 I was the Minister of Trade, in Manchukuo. 955 02:50:48,040 --> 02:50:50,000 You were all in Manchukuo. 956 02:50:50,125 --> 02:50:51,793 Now I'm the cell leader. 957 02:50:51,919 --> 02:50:54,463 It is important to follow the rules here. 958 02:50:54,588 --> 02:50:57,090 No talking during study sessions! 959 02:52:00,988 --> 02:52:04,533 Where is your gun, Captain? Where are their swords? 960 02:52:04,658 --> 02:52:07,240 Our weapons have been removed, Your 961 02:52:07,266 --> 02:52:10,063 Majesty, on orders of Colonel Yoshioka. 962 02:52:10,163 --> 02:52:12,124 Colonel Yoshioka? 963 02:52:14,001 --> 02:52:15,502 Colonel Yoshioka! 964 02:52:16,003 --> 02:52:19,464 What has happened here? Why has my guard been disarmed? 965 02:52:19,590 --> 02:52:22,342 Yes, it is very unfortunate, Your Majesty. 966 02:52:22,467 --> 02:52:25,512 There have been many changes while you were in Tokyo. 967 02:52:25,637 --> 02:52:29,236 Your Majesty, may I present Masaomi Kobayakawa, 968 02:52:29,262 --> 02:52:32,336 the new Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo. 969 02:52:59,004 --> 02:53:02,007 Why is Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu not here to receive me? 970 02:53:02,132 --> 02:53:05,260 The Prime Minister has resigned, Your Majesty. 971 02:53:05,385 --> 02:53:07,846 His son has been assassinated. 972 02:53:08,388 --> 02:53:12,893 - Assassinated? - By communist bandits, Your Majesty. 973 02:53:19,900 --> 02:53:21,777 I must see him at once. 974 02:53:21,902 --> 02:53:29,535 He refuses to see anyone, Your Majesty. He has gone to a monastery, far away. 975 02:53:36,917 --> 02:53:38,293 Who are you? 976 02:53:39,294 --> 02:53:44,466 Chang Chinghui, Your Majesty, Minister of Defense. 977 02:53:45,634 --> 02:53:47,203 Yes. 978 02:53:49,410 --> 02:53:51,303 Of course. 979 02:53:53,392 --> 02:53:56,095 The council meeting will be at four o'clock, 980 02:53:56,121 --> 02:53:58,463 Your Majesty, before the state dinner. 981 02:54:09,283 --> 02:54:13,036 The Emperor has been asked to sign the following. 982 02:54:14,037 --> 02:54:16,164 After careful consideration, 983 02:54:16,290 --> 02:54:19,716 we have decided to nominate the Honorable Chang 984 02:54:19,742 --> 02:54:23,238 Chinghui as the new Prime Minister of Manchukuo. 985 02:54:31,805 --> 02:54:33,473 No. 986 02:54:34,474 --> 02:54:39,813 Today, on our return from Japan, we wish to speak of something more important. 987 02:54:40,814 --> 02:54:45,194 The future of our friendship with Japan. 988 02:54:45,319 --> 02:54:47,529 This is based on mutual respect, 989 02:54:48,488 --> 02:54:52,868 and respect means equality and independence. 990 02:54:52,993 --> 02:54:57,664 When the two Emperors stood together and saluted the two national flags, 991 02:54:57,789 --> 02:55:01,293 they recognized that Manchukuo had come of age. 992 02:55:01,418 --> 02:55:05,631 Manchukuo is not a colony. Manchukuo is Manchuria. 993 02:55:09,009 --> 02:55:11,507 The relationship between our two countries is 994 02:55:11,533 --> 02:55:14,248 like the relationship between these two Emperors. 995 02:55:14,348 --> 02:55:17,518 It is rooted in paternal trust, 996 02:55:17,643 --> 02:55:22,731 in... in the desire to preserve our ancient traditions, 997 02:55:22,856 --> 02:55:27,986 and in a mutual respect for our national identities. 998 02:55:28,111 --> 02:55:34,993 Already, we have welcomed the ambassadors of El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Vatican... 999 02:55:37,037 --> 02:55:41,166 Soon I'm... I'm sure the other countries will follow. 1000 02:56:02,062 --> 02:56:05,774 Chang Chinghui was an idiot. 1001 02:56:05,899 --> 02:56:11,280 He thought the open board were there to decrease production. 1002 02:56:11,405 --> 02:56:15,033 But that was just propaganda. 1003 02:56:15,158 --> 02:56:20,664 What the Japanese really wanted was cash, more production! 1004 02:56:20,914 --> 02:56:23,417 Of course, they've gotten rid of him. 1005 02:56:25,586 --> 02:56:33,586 Well, I had been in the drug business all my life... opium, heroin. 1006 02:56:34,595 --> 02:56:37,927 I could deal with the green gang in 1007 02:56:37,953 --> 02:56:41,376 Shanghai, even with Chiang Kai Shek. 1008 02:56:42,102 --> 02:56:48,066 That is why the Japanese wanted me to be Prime Minister. 1009 02:57:14,843 --> 02:57:18,931 You were right. I was blind. 1010 02:57:39,451 --> 02:57:47,376 I'm going to have a child. The father is Manchurian. 1011 02:57:52,756 --> 02:57:54,716 Colonel Yoshioka, Mr. Amakasu! 1012 02:57:54,842 --> 02:57:56,677 I did it for you! 1013 02:58:19,700 --> 02:58:22,834 His Majesty forgot to sign the appointment of 1014 02:58:22,860 --> 02:58:25,856 the new Prime Minister, Mr. Chang Chinghui! 1015 02:58:27,833 --> 02:58:29,209 I did not forget. 1016 02:58:35,716 --> 02:58:39,636 When an Englishman robs someone, Your Majesty, he becomes a gentleman. 1017 02:58:39,761 --> 02:58:43,140 If he robs a lot, he becomes a knight. 1018 02:58:44,057 --> 02:58:47,936 Do you imagine the British run their Empire as a charity? 1019 02:58:48,312 --> 02:58:55,611 If India has to pay for the cost of its own occupation, so must Manchukuo. 1020 02:59:10,250 --> 02:59:18,250 We hope Manchukuo will have an heir. The Empress is expecting a child. 1021 02:59:19,259 --> 02:59:27,142 Yes, Your Majesty, we are aware of the situation. 1022 02:59:29,061 --> 02:59:30,812 This is the name of the father. 1023 02:59:45,702 --> 02:59:48,997 His name is Chang! He is your driver! 1024 03:00:08,642 --> 03:00:13,689 All the necessary facts have been recorded. The man will be punished. 1025 03:00:13,814 --> 03:00:17,150 The Emperor cannot allow his honor to be stained. 1026 03:00:34,543 --> 03:00:38,422 The Japanese are the only divine race on earth. 1027 03:00:38,547 --> 03:00:43,510 We will take China, Hong Kong, Indochina, 1028 03:00:43,635 --> 03:00:48,849 Siam, Malaya, Singapore, and India! 1029 03:00:49,308 --> 03:00:51,518 Asia belongs to us! 1030 03:01:47,032 --> 03:01:49,076 How long have you been here? 1031 03:01:49,493 --> 03:01:50,869 Three years. 1032 03:01:53,288 --> 03:01:58,126 You were issued with the same clothes as everyone else. 1033 03:01:58,710 --> 03:02:02,339 Why can't you learn to look after yourself? 1034 03:02:05,592 --> 03:02:08,053 There have been complaints from your cellmates. 1035 03:02:08,762 --> 03:02:12,474 You must learn how to urinate at night without waking them all up! 1036 03:02:14,893 --> 03:02:18,544 The way to do it is to urinate against the 1037 03:02:18,570 --> 03:02:22,050 side of the bucket, not into the middle! 1038 03:02:22,484 --> 03:02:23,861 Yes, comrade. 1039 03:02:38,375 --> 03:02:41,044 You still think I'm your servant, don't you? 1040 03:03:17,331 --> 03:03:20,459 This is the last time, the last time. 1041 03:03:41,647 --> 03:03:43,524 This is the last time. 1042 03:03:51,657 --> 03:03:55,410 Why do you think Big Li has been in prison all this time? 1043 03:03:58,622 --> 03:04:00,832 Or haven't you thought about it? 1044 03:04:02,042 --> 03:04:03,877 Because he was my servant. 1045 03:04:04,002 --> 03:04:05,379 Yes. 1046 03:04:06,380 --> 03:04:09,299 Loyalty is a great quality, isn't it? 1047 03:04:09,800 --> 03:04:14,888 So do you think it is unjust that your loyal servant is punished for serving you? 1048 03:04:15,889 --> 03:04:19,268 I think it is not a question of justice. 1049 03:04:19,393 --> 03:04:21,270 It is a question of justice! 1050 03:04:21,395 --> 03:04:23,939 Even the servant has a choice. 1051 03:04:24,064 --> 03:04:27,943 Maybe he had nothing to do with the political decisions of Manchukuo 1052 03:04:28,068 --> 03:04:30,445 or the crimes that happened around me. 1053 03:04:30,571 --> 03:04:32,823 He was the only innocent person there. 1054 03:04:34,241 --> 03:04:35,617 Sit down. 1055 03:04:43,625 --> 03:04:48,338 Carmen Li is now a free citizen of the People's Republic of China. 1056 03:04:48,922 --> 03:04:50,632 He is being released today. 1057 03:04:53,802 --> 03:04:55,470 You have a train to catch. 1058 03:05:00,601 --> 03:05:04,229 This is my wife. We had three children. 1059 03:05:08,066 --> 03:05:09,860 You know nothing about me. 1060 03:05:27,544 --> 03:05:28,921 Thank you. 1061 03:05:29,463 --> 03:05:31,381 For a long time, I thought you kept him in prison, 1062 03:05:31,507 --> 03:05:33,926 because you wanted someone to look after me. 1063 03:05:34,635 --> 03:05:38,931 If you went out on the streets of China today, and people knew who you were, 1064 03:05:39,056 --> 03:05:42,184 somebody would probably try to kill you! 1065 03:05:43,977 --> 03:05:48,190 You talk of your past as if you were the only one who suffered. 1066 03:05:48,315 --> 03:05:51,109 Stop hiding behind your private story. 1067 03:05:51,235 --> 03:05:54,071 Write it again! All of it. 1068 03:06:08,919 --> 03:06:13,382 We are all pretending. You are just pretending you have changed. 1069 03:06:13,507 --> 03:06:16,176 You cannot speak like that in here. 1070 03:06:16,593 --> 03:06:19,471 That is counter-revolutionary talk. 1071 03:06:19,596 --> 03:06:22,474 I know who you all are. 1072 03:06:23,350 --> 03:06:25,936 You were a captain of the Imperial Guard, 1073 03:06:26,061 --> 03:06:28,856 and you become a spy in the palace. 1074 03:06:28,981 --> 03:06:31,900 You, the Minister of Trade, 1075 03:06:32,025 --> 03:06:35,904 were responsible for the starvation in Manchukuo. 1076 03:06:36,029 --> 03:06:41,285 He... Prime Minister of Narcotics. 1077 03:06:42,202 --> 03:06:44,454 Shut up! The party teaches us to be new men! 1078 03:06:44,580 --> 03:06:46,081 We're working for a new China! 1079 03:06:46,206 --> 03:06:48,250 You worked in Amakasu's private office. 1080 03:06:48,375 --> 03:06:52,004 You are still the same people! People do not change. 1081 03:06:52,504 --> 03:06:54,840 Guard! Guard! 1082 03:07:00,804 --> 03:07:02,181 Guard! 1083 03:07:02,639 --> 03:07:04,141 I let it happen. 1084 03:07:04,892 --> 03:07:07,311 Guard! Guard! 1085 03:07:07,436 --> 03:07:09,021 I let it happen. 1086 03:07:44,806 --> 03:07:47,797 The second edict, Your Majesty. Japanese will 1087 03:07:47,823 --> 03:07:50,879 be the official language in Manchukuo schools. 1088 03:08:04,535 --> 03:08:05,911 Your Majesty! 1089 03:08:10,457 --> 03:08:12,626 The baby was born dead, Your Majesty. 1090 03:08:12,751 --> 03:08:14,419 How is the Empress? 1091 03:08:14,545 --> 03:08:18,131 It would be better if she goes to a clinic, somewhere warm. 1092 03:08:23,637 --> 03:08:26,056 She's already left, Your Majesty. 1093 03:09:20,819 --> 03:09:22,404 Open the door. 1094 03:10:40,482 --> 03:10:43,652 With Manchukuo now firmly in their grasp, the 1095 03:10:43,678 --> 03:10:46,847 Japanese soon controlled most of North China. 1096 03:10:47,239 --> 03:10:52,786 By 1937, they were ready to strike South, at the heart of the country. 1097 03:10:53,453 --> 03:10:58,584 The attack on Shanghai was one of the first civilian bombing raids in history. 1098 03:10:58,959 --> 03:11:03,213 It left thousands homeless, thousands dead. 1099 03:11:08,635 --> 03:11:11,131 Three months later, Japanese armies were 1100 03:11:11,157 --> 03:11:13,957 besieging the provisional capital at Nanking. 1101 03:11:14,057 --> 03:11:18,854 And when the city fell, the atrocities began. 1102 03:11:19,479 --> 03:11:22,149 Trying to terrorize the rest of China into surrender, 1103 03:11:22,274 --> 03:11:26,528 the Japanese High Command ordered a massacre. 1104 03:11:26,653 --> 03:11:32,117 More than two hundred thousand civilians were systematically executed. 1105 03:11:32,409 --> 03:11:36,997 The world watched in horror, but no help was given. 1106 03:11:37,122 --> 03:11:40,415 On December the seventh, 1941, Japan 1107 03:11:40,441 --> 03:11:44,446 attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. 1108 03:11:44,671 --> 03:11:46,798 There was no warning. 1109 03:11:47,841 --> 03:11:51,926 Manchukuo, the Japanese bastion in North China, 1110 03:11:51,952 --> 03:11:55,866 was still ruled by the puppet Emperor, Pu Yi. 1111 03:11:56,725 --> 03:12:02,272 But behind the facade of triumph was a country enslaved. 1112 03:12:02,856 --> 03:12:06,980 A country where Japanese experimenting biological 1113 03:12:07,006 --> 03:12:10,881 warfare were carried out on live human beings. 1114 03:12:11,865 --> 03:12:18,413 A country where opium production became the easiest way to finance the war. 1115 03:12:18,539 --> 03:12:24,002 Millions of people were deliberately turned into drug addicts. 1116 03:12:48,569 --> 03:12:55,242 Nine days after the bomb at Hiroshima, on August the fifteenth, 1945, 1117 03:12:55,367 --> 03:12:59,746 Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan. 1118 03:13:00,247 --> 03:13:05,627 It was the first time his voice had ever been heard on radio. 1119 03:13:55,177 --> 03:13:56,970 You must get to Tokyo, Your Majesty. 1120 03:13:57,095 --> 03:13:59,848 You must surrender to the Americans, not the Russians. 1121 03:13:59,973 --> 03:14:01,934 The communists will kill everyone! 1122 03:14:11,693 --> 03:14:13,779 Your excellence have reached Habi. 1123 03:14:14,363 --> 03:14:16,114 We must leave at once. 1124 03:14:18,116 --> 03:14:20,160 There is no room in the plane. 1125 03:14:20,994 --> 03:14:22,496 No trucks! 1126 03:15:17,384 --> 03:15:18,886 The Empress has returned. 1127 03:15:28,562 --> 03:15:30,147 Your Majesty, please. 1128 03:15:30,689 --> 03:15:34,109 The Empress must not know you have seen her like that. 1129 03:15:40,115 --> 03:15:41,491 Your Majesty! 1130 03:16:35,600 --> 03:16:38,590 Hurry! There is no room on the plane, Your Majesty! 1131 03:16:38,715 --> 03:16:41,802 The women are looking beat. We must hurry! 1132 03:17:46,116 --> 03:17:48,952 Your Majesty! Your Majesty is leaving now! 1133 03:17:50,370 --> 03:17:51,747 Now! 1134 03:18:29,868 --> 03:18:31,245 The Russians! 1135 03:19:45,611 --> 03:19:48,947 Perhaps you think we are here to teach men to lie in a new way. 1136 03:19:51,658 --> 03:19:54,536 Why did you sign every accusation made against you? 1137 03:19:55,162 --> 03:19:58,332 I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this. 1138 03:19:58,624 --> 03:20:02,961 Someone who signs anything to please his enemies, to please me! 1139 03:20:04,338 --> 03:20:09,092 You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo, even the secret agreements. 1140 03:20:10,427 --> 03:20:13,107 But you couldn't possibly have known about the 1141 03:20:13,133 --> 03:20:16,041 Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin! 1142 03:20:16,642 --> 03:20:22,272 Could you? So why did you sign these papers? 1143 03:20:27,069 --> 03:20:28,946 I was responsible for everything. 1144 03:20:29,655 --> 03:20:32,282 You are responsible for what you do! 1145 03:20:33,200 --> 03:20:36,495 All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. 1146 03:20:37,037 --> 03:20:38,789 Now you think you're the worst of all! 1147 03:20:44,920 --> 03:20:47,422 Why can you not leave me alone? 1148 03:20:49,383 --> 03:20:52,219 You saved my life to make me a puppet in your own play. 1149 03:20:55,097 --> 03:20:57,349 You saved me because I am useful to you. 1150 03:20:57,766 --> 03:21:01,311 Is that so terrible, to be useful? 1151 03:21:34,845 --> 03:21:36,722 Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi! 1152 03:21:42,186 --> 03:21:45,939 By order of the Supreme People's Court, 1153 03:21:46,523 --> 03:21:53,655 the war criminal, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, male, fifty-three years old, 1154 03:21:54,364 --> 03:21:58,577 of the Manchu nationality, and from Peking, 1155 03:21:59,036 --> 03:22:02,164 has now served ten years detention! 1156 03:22:03,248 --> 03:22:11,248 As a result of remolding through labor and ideological education during his captivity, 1157 03:22:11,507 --> 03:22:15,177 he has shown that he has genuinely reformed! 1158 03:22:15,302 --> 03:22:19,258 In accordance with clause one of the Special 1159 03:22:19,284 --> 03:22:23,327 Pardon Order, he is therefore to be released! 1160 03:22:35,906 --> 03:22:40,661 You see, I will end up living in prison longer than you. 1161 03:26:02,529 --> 03:26:03,989 The Red Guards! 1162 03:26:11,705 --> 03:26:13,165 They are so young. 1163 03:26:14,750 --> 03:26:16,376 It is dangerous. 1164 03:26:23,634 --> 03:26:26,845 Look, over there, Pu Chieh, look! 1165 03:26:30,682 --> 03:26:32,618 It is the governor of our prison! 1166 03:26:34,353 --> 03:26:37,356 - It cannot be! - It is! I'm sure it is! 1167 03:26:40,275 --> 03:26:44,513 Be careful! Come back! 1168 03:27:29,658 --> 03:27:34,746 Comrade, this must be a mistake! I know this man! He is a good man. 1169 03:27:35,706 --> 03:27:38,016 - Who are you? - I am a gardener. 1170 03:27:38,792 --> 03:27:40,752 Join us, comrade, or buzz off! 1171 03:27:51,805 --> 03:27:53,849 - But what has he done? - He has been accused. 1172 03:27:53,974 --> 03:27:58,645 - Accused of what? - Imperialismania! Reactionary elements! Traitor to country! 1173 03:27:59,563 --> 03:28:01,690 - Confess your crimes! - I have nothing to confess. 1174 03:28:01,815 --> 03:28:03,667 Kowtow to Chairman Mao! 1175 03:28:08,822 --> 03:28:11,116 - Confess your crimes! - I have nothing to confess. 1176 03:28:11,241 --> 03:28:12,618 Kowtow! 1177 03:28:17,122 --> 03:28:18,957 - Confess your crimes! - Wait! 1178 03:28:19,124 --> 03:28:21,860 He's a teacher! He is a good teacher! 1179 03:28:22,044 --> 03:28:24,713 - You! Get out of here! - You can't do this to him! 1180 03:28:24,838 --> 03:28:26,340 Move! You want to be him? 1181 03:28:26,465 --> 03:28:28,641 You are wrong! He is a good teacher! 1182 03:28:43,190 --> 03:28:51,190 Decision of reactionary element! Decision of reactionary element! 1183 03:32:12,566 --> 03:32:18,989 Stop! You are not allowed in there! 1184 03:32:22,910 --> 03:32:26,246 - Who are you? - I live here! I'm the son of the guardian! 1185 03:32:26,663 --> 03:32:28,874 Ah, well, I used to live here, too. 1186 03:32:29,416 --> 03:32:30,876 That is where I sat. 1187 03:32:31,001 --> 03:32:32,544 Who are you? 1188 03:32:33,587 --> 03:32:35,714 I was the Emperor of China. 1189 03:32:35,839 --> 03:32:37,216 Prove it! 1190 03:34:25,365 --> 03:34:29,052 This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where the Emperors were crowned. 1191 03:34:29,620 --> 03:34:32,748 The last Emperor to be crowned here was Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. 1192 03:34:32,873 --> 03:34:38,503 He was three years old. He died in 1967. 93858

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