Original subtitles

The war criminals will proceed in orderly fashion...

to the main waiting room and await instructions

Obey the guards

War criminals must proceed to the main waiting room

Those caught talking will be severely punished

The Emperor

Your Majesty...His Majesty

What do they think they are doing?

It is dangerous

Go back

They could kill us all

Open the door

Open the door!

"PEKING, 1908"

By the command of Her lmperial Majesty ...also called the Compassionate

...and the Blessed...the Respectful and the Long Living

The Empress Dowager commands... Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi...Son of Prince Chun...

shall be transferred...immediately ...to the Forbidden City...

and will remain in the Great Within awaiting Her Majesty's decision

Respect this

"Ar Mo, I am giving you my Son"

My son is your son

"Quick, quick"

I want to go home

Look. Look at the Forbidden City

Give him to me

Ar Mo

Pu Yi. Come here

Are you afraid of me?

Everyone is

I am the Grand Empress Dowager

"And I have lived here... for a long, long time"

And they call me the Old Buddha

This is Peony

Do you like her?

"Men, you know...are not allowed in the Forbidden City after dark"

Even little men like you

The only man who can live here...is the Emperor

But the Emperor is on high ...ridding the dragon now

He died today

Longevity

These other men...they're not real men

They are all eunuchs

And now...they are all waiting...for me to die

That is why...they are putting my bed...in the middle of the room...

under the Black Pearl

Little Pu Yi

I have decided...that you will be the new Lord of Ten Thousand Years

You will be the Son of Heaven

"Are we going home, Papa?"

It will soon be over

Look!

Cricket!

"Cricket, where's the cricket?"

"He is my friend, Your Majesty"

Safe and warm under my arm

Kept me company on the long journey here

He is kowtowing to Your Majesty

Now he can be the Emperor's cricket

"Your Majesty, this is the Forbidden City"

This little one is...Your Majesty's bedroom

This is where we are

Am I going home today?

Not today

"And here, look"

I'll give Your Majesty the Gate of Marshovala

I don't like baths!

I don't like baths

More beancurd today. And no meat

Is it true I can do anything I want?

Of course Your Majesty. Anything you want

You are the Lord of Ten Thousand Years

I am the Son of Heaven!

I am the Son of Heaven!

"Ar Mo, I want to go home"

"I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go home, Ar Mo"

I want to go home

Once upon a time...there was a great tree

and a great wind

And when the tree fell... the monkeys were scattered

His soup is getting cold

Where am I?

In the People's Republic of China...

Why did you stop me?

You are a criminal. You must be judged

I repeat...

Prisoners going to their cells will walk with their heads bowed

Keep your eyes on the ground

No looking forward...or to the side

The Guard will give you directions...

and tell you when to turn

Pu Chieh

Your guest is waiting to meet you...Your Majesty

Also your mother has arrived

"You have not seen your mother for many years, Your Majesty"

He is so small

"He is young, Your Majesty"

Go

The Emperor's brother. His Excellency Pu Chieh

Ar Mo

How is the health of His Majesty's mother?

"It is better, thank you"

How much His Majesty has grown

My mother has not seen me for seven years

Do you remember my face?

No

The night they came with the horses ...I knew it would be like this

My brother sees you every day

Pu Chieh is very excited to meet you

He often talks about you

We are all very proud of you

The kite

He chose this for you

Papa

They're turning away

Of course. Ordinary people are not allowed to look at the Emperor

I'm too important

Is that true that you can do whatever you want?

Of course I can

If I am naughty someone else is punished

One of them

Stop

The Emperor will walk

Are they all like you?

I've got three sisters and two friends

If you come to our house... you can play with us

The Emperor never leaves the palace

We play games together

I know a game too

Run

The ones on the boat are the High Consorts

High Consorts?

The wives of the Emperor before me

They say they're my mother

But they're not

Why are you wearing that? You are not allowed to wear yellow

But it is ordinary yellow

It is lmperial yellow

"No, it is not"

We say it is

Only the Emperor can wear that yellow

Take it off

No

Take it off

"No, and you're not the Emperor any more"

There is a new Emperor now

He has cut off his queue. And instead of a camel...

he has got a car

What did you say?

You're not the Emperor

Liar

You're not the Emperor any more

You're not the Emperor

You're not the Emperor

How dare you!

You're not the Emperor!

How dare you

Am I the Emperor or not?

Your Majesty...will always be the Emperor

You see

Prove it

Big Foot

Drink it

Drink the green ink

I will show you

"See, that is a car"

He is the President of the Republic

"Why is this wall here, Lord Chamberlain?"

"It is just a wall, Your Majesty. Nothing has changed here"

You are lying

High Tutor

Am I still the Emperor?

You will always be the Emperor... inside the Forbidden City...

but not outside

I do not understand

Outside China is now a Republic...

with a President

Where is Ar Mo?

You are all liars

Let me say goodbye

Hurry

He's my child

I do not understand

I do not understand

Your Majesty is a big boy now

He cannot have a wet nurse any more

It is much better like this

Much healthier

But she is not my wet nurse

She is my butterfly

Ar Mo

Ar Mo

This is the detention centre...

of the Fushun Bureau of Public Security...

and I am the Governer

During the war...this was a Japanese prison

Many of you may remember it...

because you worked with the Japanese

You were responsible for building it...

and you filled it with innocent people

How could this happen?

Why did you betray your country?

What turned you into war criminals?

We believe...that men are born good

We believe...that the only way to change...

is to discover the truth and look at it in the face

That is why you are here

You will begin by writing the story of your lives...

and by confessing your crimes

Your salvation will lie entirely...

in the attitude you take

I advise you to be frank and sincere

Otherwise things can still go very badly for you

TWILIGHTIN THE FORBIDDEN CITY

After a few years the Chinese Republic...

had become as corrupt as the old empire

It fell quickly into the hands of ambitious generals and corrupt bureaucrats

The era of the warlords had begun

By May 1919 when I had received my appointment...

China was in turmoil

May the new tutor present himself

Your lmperial Highness...the new tutor

Mr Reginald Fleming Johnston

"How do you do, Mr Johnston?"

"How do you do, Your Majesty"

Now we will go to school

Your Majesty...

in my country it would be usual to begin ...with some kind of an examination

The Emperor cannot be examined

Now that my have to change

But first your Majesty might like to ask me some questions?

Where are your ancestors buried?

"In Scotland, Your Majesty"

But then where's your skirt?

"In your country men wear short skirts, do they not?"

"No, Your Majesty, Scotsmen do not wear skirts..."

they wear kilts

Kilts?

A matter of words

perhaps but words are important

Why are words important?

"If you cannot say what you mean, Your Majesty..."

you will never mean what you say

And a gentleman should always mean what he says

Ah yes! A gentleman

Are you a gentleman?

"I would like to be a gentleman, Your Majesty"

I try to be

I am not a gentleman

I'm not allowed to say what I mean

They are always telling me what to say

Your Majesty is still very young

I thought he might like to see some English and American magazines

I have just received them

I know that you know... that I know that you know...

that that is a dialogue between Confucious...and Chuang-Tsu

"Concerning respect, Your Majesty"

Who is this George Washington?

"A famous American, Your Majesty"

"A revolutionary General, the first American President"

"Ah, like Mr Lenin in Russia?"

Not quiet

Does he have a car?

"He lived a long time ago, Your Majesty"

I want a car

"I think your mouse is trying to escape, Your Majesty"

Please do not tell anyone about my mouse

The lesson is finished

Our official taster is a brave man

"Many of my ancestors have been poisoned, you know"

Does Your Majesty have lunch like this every day?

"Oh, yes, every day. Like theatre"

I do not know why. It has always been like that

How do they kill Emperor's in the West?

"The Austrian Emperor was shot, was he not?"

But this nephew was assassinated before the Great War

But the Russian Emperor has been shot

He was called the Tsar

He took lots of our land in Manchuria

I'm a Manchurian

"Even after the Republic, it's still my country"

"The, er...secret, Your Majesty, is emerging again"

Something is happening

"What is happening, Mr Johnston?"

Nothing is Quiet

"On our way here, Your Majesty..."

we were held up by students from a University

They were protesting against the Republican Government...

because it has agreed to give away Chinese territory...to Japan

"Is it true, Mr Johnston..."

that many people out there have had their heads chopped off?

"It is true, Your Majesty..."

many heads have been chopped off

It does stop them thinking

It is time for the Emperor's rest

The students are right to be angry

I am angry

But I'm not allowed to leave the Forbidden City

"I want to go out, Mr Johnston"

"My Lord, I want to see the city of sounds"

The Emperor awards you...with the order of the Ruby Hat Button...

and with the right to be carried in your own chair with four bearers

I hope the Emperor has not forgotten...

that this is the day for his maths class

For Your Majesty

My doctor said bicycles are bad for you

"Bad for you, nonsense"

How does it work?

Oh...it's simple

Head up and eyes forward as in life

"My Mother's dead, is she not?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. I'm profoundly sorry"

I'm not

She killed herself

She swallowed a ball of opium

"I'm going to see her, and my brother"

Open the door

Open the door!

Open the door!

Look where you lead him

"And you are an old, cruel, ignorant man"

The boy's Mother is dead

and he's not even allowed to see her

I want to go out! I want to go out!

Stop it. Stay where you are

I want to go out

Stop it! Stay where you are

I want to go out!

Hunchback. Big Foot

"Give me your hand, sir"

"Give me your hand, sir"

"Look at my left ear please, sir"

And now my right

"Would you follow my finger please, sir"

"Well, it's perfectly simple Johnstone"

The Emperor needs spectacles

Like Harold Lloyd

Impossible

An Emperor does not wear spectacles

That cannot be allowed

"Times have changed, Your Highnesses"

"If His Majesty doesn't get spectacles, Johnston..."

he could lose his sight

"If the Emperor does not get spectacles, I will resign"

"Unfortunately, our decision is final..."

and unfortunately what I have to say...

will be published in every newspaper in China

"What do you have to say, Mr Johnston?"

The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace...

since the day that he was crowned...

and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated

"But, now he's growing up...he may wonder why he's the only person in China"

who may not walk out of his own front door

I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on earth

It would be conveniently sad... if he becomes blind

Blind...Mr Johnston?

"To the expense, Your Excellency"

To the cost of maintaining one thousand two hundred Eunuchs...

three hundred and fifty ladies-in-waiting...

and one hundred and eighty-five cooks

To buying one hundred and twenty sable furs a month...

and three thousand chickens a week

To the fact that eight hundred and forty Guards and employees...

of the Household Department plus one Lord Chamberlain...

care only about one thing...

filling their own rice bowls

"You are very good at accounts, Mr Johnston"

The Emperor may have abdicated...

but he is still a symbol of great importance...to many people

If I did not agree with that I would not be here

And some of us believe...that one day soon he may be more than a symbol

The spectacles are a detail

"What do you really want, Mr Johnston?"

Just the spectacles

"Oh no...The Princess Wan Jung, Your Majesty"

Seventeen years old

"Princess Who Jen, fifteen years old"

"The Princess Li Li, Your Majesty"

And the Princess Fun Ying

Who is this?

"Princess Wen Hsiu, twelve years old"

She has got a funny face

Not just one wife

One Empress and one Secondary Consort

Two wives

"But, who did you choose to be the Empress?"

"They chose her, she's very old, Johnston"

She's seventeen

"That's not so old, Your Majesty"

What does she look like?

Old-fashioned

"I want a modern wife, Johnston"

Who speaks English and French

And who can dance the quickstep

Johnston

"I'm going to escape, Johnston"

I've got a suitcase and a ticket to English

I'm going to Oxford University

Your Majesty...if you get married...

you will become the master of your own house

A wedding might be a more practical way to escape

"Why did you never get married, Johnston?"

The Secondary Consort welcomes the Empress

The Empress greets the Secondary Consort

You are doing everything every well

Thank you. I rehearsed many times

What is his Majesty thinking?

I was thinking if I was a real Emperor...

I would become the ruler of China now

And what would the Emperor do...

if he could really rule?

I would change everything

Even the way we get married

Is the Emperor against arranged marriages?

It is humiliating not to choose whom you marry

Even I was not allowed to choose

In another year or two...

His Majesty will be taller than me

Is it true the Emperor has a suitcase under his bed...

and is going to Oxford

Will the Emperor take Wan Jung with him?

Perhaps he would like to see my face before he decides

The Emperor would like to see the face of the Empress

It is the Emperor who must remove the kai t'ou

I also had a tutor...like Mr Johnston

Miss Windsor

She's American

Miss Windsor taught me how to do the dance of the quickstep

Does the Emperor know how to do the quickstep?

Will you teach me?

"Leave us, leave us"

If Your Majesty thinks... it is old fashioned...

to make the rain and the wind with a stranger...

we can be like a modern couple...to begin with

A modern couple?

Goodnight! Goodnight!

You must come to Oxford with me

I like him

I am sure I am going to like him

And he will grow up

Eyes down

Report your arrival

Prisoner 981 reporting

Louder!

Prisoner 981 reporting!

Open the door

Close the door

Sit down

Name?

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

Write it

Now then...there are two types of confession

We call them toothpaste...

and water tap

The toothpaste prisoner needs to be squeezed every now and then...

or else he forgets to keep confessing

The water tap man...needs one good hard twist before he starts...

but then everything comes out

Now...you're an intelligent person

I'm sure you understand me?

Good. Then we'll begin

Why do you think you're in here 981?

I am accused of being a traitor...

a collaborator and a counter revolutionary

It is not an accusation! You are a traitor!

You are a collaborator and you are a counter revolutionary

Did you write this?

And you call it a confession?

This is nothing but a list of dates

A child's fairy tale

What do you want me to confess?

You know what you did...

and what others did

So why don't you volunteer the information?

I do not understand

We don't tell people what to confess

We already know everything about you

I...

I wanted reforms

What did you want to...reform?

Everything

Cut off my queue

"Your Majesty, please"

It is heavy

The Emperor before me was murdered...

because he wanted to reform the Empire

"Is that no so, Mr Johnston?"

"Yes, Your Majesty...probably"

Well...let's see if they will kill me for reforming the Forbidden City

I am appointing Mr Johnston's friend...

the poet and scholar Chen Hsiao-Hsiu ...to be the new Lord Chamberlain

I want him to supervise a detailed inventory...of the lmperial storerooms

So that we can learn exactly how much has been stolen

29.970

The Forbidden City had become a theatre without an audience

So why did the actors remain on the stage?

It was only to steal the scenery...piece by piece

Can I sleep here? I am frightened

You're brave

Are you not frightened?

I am excited

I do not want to escape anymore

I want to rule

Kiss me

Can I stay with you as well?

Get in. Get in

I used to play a game with the Eunuchs...

trying to guess who is who

Now I cannot see you

"The storerooms are on fire, Your Majesty"

The fire was a terrible disaster

And I knew that Eunuchs had started it...

to stop me from knowing what they had stolen

There has been Eunuchs in the Forbidden City...for eight hundred years

There were still more than a thousand of them

I decided to expel them all

I had to ask for Republican troops to help me

What are they carrying?

Their organs

Whatever their crimes...

they cannot be deprived of the right...to be buried as whole men

I...I forgot what I was saying

You're wasting our time

We want to know about the Japanese

How did your friendship with the Japanese begin?

Who introduced you? When?

I think it was...it was 1924

Parliament had been dissolved again

The President had fled

At first I thought it was just another ...coup d'etat by just another warlord

Only this time it was different

This time it was my turn

Fifteen love

Play

Thirty-fifteen

The rotten Government of the Republic is in flight

Now we shall remove the foreign stench...

of the Manchurian rats who still hide in the Forbidden City

Mr Pu Yi and his family...

have been given one hour to leave the Forbidden City

They will be escorted...to the home of his Father and remain...

there under guard as state prisoners...

until further notice

What are you all looking at?

What are you standing there for?

You always wanted to leave the Forbidden City

Now you have got an hour to pack

So go

I always thought I hated it here

But now I am afraid to leave

Do you think they will kill me?

"You must do as they say, Your Majesty..."

while I try to reach the British Embassy

They will give you asylum there

I'm sure they will

Chang...take my car to the South gate. I want you to drive His Majesty

"Please, Your Majesty"

What?

"But you didn't go to the British Embassy, did you?"

You ended up at the Japanese Embassy

The Japanese were the only people prepared to help me

Help you for nothing?

Japan has an Emperor. We are almost the same age

I thought it was kindness

The same time I relised that for many Chinese...

I was an alien

Simply because I am Manchurian

There was even an Anti-Manchurian League who wanted to assassinate me

So I went to live in Tientsin

It was a nice...provincial town ...with a big port

In those days it had a large International Settlement

The Japanese thought it would be safer for me there

Were the Japanese paying for you in Tientsin?

"Oh, no. I had to rent a villa"

The villa Chang...and it was very expensive

"So, were the bodyguards"

I spent a lot of money in Tientsin

Did you still believe in the restoration of the lmperial system

Others did

The little court-in-exile

I cannot remember how much jade and jewellery...

they made me spend to buy the friendship of some warlord...

or some...white Russian general

And what else did you spend your money on?

"Oh, I was never tired of buying pianos..."

"watches, radios"

As long as they were foreign

Of course. Anything Western was good

"Especially Wrigley's chewing gum, Bayer aspirin..."

and cars

While you were in Tientsin...

most of China came under the control of General Chiang Kai Shek...

the so-called Nationalists...the Kuomintang

What were your relations with them?

None

I felt useless in Tientsin

I was twenty-one

I dreamt of going to the West

I became a playboy

"Tientsin, 1927"

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAN

That's a great ship... if you're going first class

I'm not going anywhere

Would you like to dance?

You are a brave man

Nobody here would have danced with me

Why's that?

Because I am Chinese

Well...l'm American

You say California.

I say French Riviera

San Fransisco

Monte Carlo

Are we really going this time?

Who's that couple?

"Oh, Henry and Elizabeth"

The Emperor of China?

The ex-Emperor and his wife

She's beautiful

"Yes, very"

And who are you?

I am His Highness' other wife

His other wife?

Number two wife

"Well, some people have all the luck"

Ladies and Gentlemen

General Chiang Kai Shek...has taken Shanghai

The Kuomintang have broken with the Reds

and they've knocked them for six

The Reds are finished!

Sorry about the reception everyone. We'll have it fixed in a minute

"It would be wiser to return to the Japanese Legation now, Your Majesty"

Your car is waiting

"Thank you, Mr Amakasu"

The General strike in Shanghai has collapsed

The International Settlement is safe

Troops of the Kuomintang are now in fall control of the city

And firm steps are being taken to restore order...in the native areas

Wen Hsiu. You want some gum?

I want a divorce

I do not want to be your mistress any longer

I thought you were my Secondary Consort

In the Forbidden City you were the Emperor...

and I was a Secondary Consort

But now your are Henry Pu Yi...

"Wan Jung is your wife, Elizabeth"

And who am I?

I'm nobody

I did not know you were so unhappy

You can only have one wife in the West

I want a divorce

No one can divorce me

I want a divorce

Your Ladyship

I do not need it

I do not need it

Can I come in?

Don't you remember me?

"I'm dressed like a pilot, but I still can't fly"

Not yet

Eastern Jewel. We had dancing classes together

"Yes, just before your marriage"

You silly girl. Why do people want to get married?

Wen Hsiu has gone

She will never come back

Is that so bad?

She was my only friend

"Well, at least now you've got a husband all to yourself'

And you've got me

I'll be your friend

You smoke opium?

Be wicked. It's the best in Shanghai

Why are you going to Europe?

The place to go is Japan

It's more fun than anywhere

It's modern

How do you know we are going to Europe?

It is a secret

"Oh, I know everything"

I know Chiang Kai Shek has got false teeth

"I even know his nickname, "Cash-my-check"

I'm a spy

And I don't care who knows it

A spy?

I work for the Japanese Special Service Bureau...

and I've come to protect you

The Japanese?

They are getting closer to him every day

He is sending his brother... to the Military Academy in Tokyo

They talk to him about Manchuria all the time

And Mr Amakasu never says hello to me

I do not trust the Japanese

"Of course, I'd love to be the Emperor's new Secondary Consort"

Eastern Jewel

If the past available

"The post is vacant, my dear cousin..."

but you do not fit the part

Wen Hsiu left her dog behind. Do you want it?

It is my fault. It is all my fault

"I came to see you, Your Majesty..."

to give you bad news

Something terrible has happened

The lmperial tombs of our Manchurian ancestors have been attacked...

and robbed...by troops of the Kuomintang

Chinese soldiers

A warlord working for Chiang Kai Shek

The body of the Empress Dowager... was hacked to pieces

Her pearl necklace has became a wedding present

from Chiang Kai Shek...to his new wife

Tell me 981 ...

do you consider yourself to be Chinese?

Of course

What is this?

Japan

And what do you call this part of China

The North East

And what did you call it as a child?

Manchuria

Japan invaded Manchuria

"on September 18th, 1931"

And began to set up a puppet state called Manchukuo

"Shorty afterwards, a Japanese Delegation..."

paid you a secret visit in Tientsin...

to request your collaboration

Which you say you refused?

Speak up

I already told you. I have told you a hundred times

Tell us again. Tell us two hundred times

I refused to collaborate

"You say you refused, but a month later..."

"on November 10th, 1931 ..."

there you are arriving in Manchuria...

or shall I call it Manchukuo?

"Now, according to this so-called confession of yours..."

you didn't go of your own free will

You insisted you were kidnapped...by the Japanese

Yes

And taken to Manchuria by force?

Yes

Sit down

Do you remember a man called Reginald Fleming Johnston?

He was your tutor

Yes

And a good friend...I believe

After twenty-eight years in China...

Mr Johnston returned to England

He became a Professor of Oriental Studies...at London University

And he wrote a book

"It is called "Twilight in the Forbidden City"

And it is dedicated to you

"Tientsin, 1931"

"I am going to miss you, Johnston"

"I shall miss you, Your Majesty"

Do you think a man... can become Emperor again?

Yes

"Thank you, Your Majesty"

How can we say goodbye?

As we said hello

"Farewell, Mr Johnston"

"Farewell, Your Majesty"

"Goodbye, Mr Johnston"

"We'll never forget you, Mr Johnston"

"Mr Johnston, goodbye, goodbye"

On page 449...

Mr Johnston writes...

the endeavour to make out that the Emperor had been kidnapped...

by the Japanese...is wholly untrue

He left Tientsin...he went to Manchuria of his own free will...

Johnston was a liar

What did you say?

Mr Johnston had left before I was taken to Manchuria

He could not have known what happened

Sit down

According to this account...

you prepared the man's things on the morning of November 9th

Isn't it unusual for a man who is kidnapped to have his luggage packed...

by his valet the day before he's kidnapped

This is what you've written isn't it?

Who told you to pack this man's luggage?

These two stories don't fit

Do they?

It was a long time ago

Perhaps I made a mistake

You are lying

You are both lying

Control yourself

You can still change your mind

I am the hereditary ruler of the Manchukuo people

There can be no Manchukuo without me

Do you not see? The Japanese are using you

I must try to use them

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria...

will be condemned by the League of Nations...

and by every civilised country on Earth

The Chinese Republic has broken every promise it ever made to me

Chinese troops desecrated the tombs of my ancestors

And Chinese troops did not defend Manchuria from the Japanese

But Manchuria is still China

China has turned its back on me

Please do not go

Manchuria is the richest frontier in Asia

"Coal, oil, railways"

Millions of Chinese emigrants are going there every year

I'm going to build my country

Johnston was wrong but he wasn't a liar

There was no kidnapping

You went to Manchuria by your own choice

because you wanted to be Emperor again

These might help you to remember the truth

Manchuria 1934

To Heaven

To Earth

To the Moon

To the Sun

You're an Empress again

What I'm going to be is a pilot

I'm going to train at a secret base near Yokohama

To learn precision bombing

I want to bomb Shanghai

Bomb Shanghai?

I hate China

I hate you

The Japanese Army High Command

Very impressive

On behalf of the Emperor of Japan... the Commander of the Kwangtung Army...

extends his warmest congratulations on the occasion of His Majesty's coronation

"Ah, may I introduce you... my wife, the Princess Hiro Saga"

Prime Minister Hsiao-Hsiu

The Honourable Chang Ching-Hui... Minister of Defense

"The Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Colonna"

The Empress and I accept with great pleasure

"Excuse me, Gentlemen"

"Ah, and our Mr Amakasu..."

is the new chief of the Manchurian Motion Picture Studios

Do you have to spoil this day?

Why?

Mr Amakasu is the most powerful man in Manchukuo

What are you talking about?

You did not believe I could be Emperor again. But I am

You are blind

Do you know what it means to be an Empress? You are an Empress

Why do you not make love to me anymore?

Because you have become an opium addict

Opium killed my Mother

Opium destroyed China

You can buy opium anywhere in Manchukuo

Shut up

In any shop

Shut up

Your brother is going to have a child

We must have a child

You must have an heir

Emperor Hirohito has officially invited us to Japan

I am going alone

You are staying here

I would never go to Japan

Then go to your room

Ten thousand years to His Majesty the Emperor

Ten thousand years

I told you I hate you

Only because I give you what you need

Now we're engaged

You forgot my toothpowder

"Yes, sir"

Move him

981 . Collect your things

Up stairs

Stop

Your laces are undone. Do them up

Thursday you serve lunch

Friday you clean the toilet

Saturday you sweep the floor

I have never been separated from my family

You'd better get use to it

"You do not remember me, do you?"

I was the Minister of Trade -- in Manchukuo

You were all in Manchukuo

Now I am the Cell Leader

It is important to follow the rules here

No talking during study sessions

MANCHURIA 1935

"Where is your gun, Captain?"

Where are their swords?

"Our weapons have been removed, Your Majesty"

On the orders of Colonel Yoshioka?

Colonel Yoshioka?

Colonel Yoshioka

What has happened here?

Why has my Guard been disarmed?

There have been many changes while you were in Tokyo

"Your Majesty, may I present Masaomi Kobayakawa..."

the new Japanese Ambassador...to Manchukuo

Why is Prime Minister Hsiao-Hsiu not here to receive me?

"The Prime Minister has resigned, Your Majesty"

His son his been assassinated

Assassinated?

"By Communist bandits, Your Majesty"

I must see him at once

"He refuses to see anyone, Your Majesty"

He has gone to a monastery... far away

Who are you?

"Chang Ching Hui, Your Majesty"

Minister of Defence

"The Council Meeting will be at four o'clock, Your Majesty..."

before the State dinner

The Emperor has been asked to sign the following

After careful consideration we have decided...

to nominate the honourable Chang Ching Hui as the new Prime Minister of Manchukuo

"Today, on the our return from Japan..."

we wish to speak of something more important...

the future of our friendship with Japan

This is based on mutual respect...

and respect means equality and independence

When the two Emperors stood together...

and saluted the two national flags

they recognised that Manchukuo had come of age

"Manchukuo is not a colony, Manchukuo is Manchuria"

The relationship between our two countries...

is like the relationship between its two Emperors

It is rooted in fraternal trust...in...in the desire

to preserve our ancient traditions...

and in a mutual respect for national identities

Already we have welcomed the Ambassadors...of E I Salvador

"Costa Rica, the Vatican"

"Soon, I'm...l'm sure the other countries will follow"

I am going to have a child

The Father is Manchurian

I did it for you

His Majesty forgot to sign the appointment of

the new Prime Minister...Mr Chang Ching Hui

I did not forget

"When an Englishman robs someone, Your Majesty, he becomes a gentleman"

If he robs a lot he becomes a knight

Do you imagine the British run their empire as a charity?

If India has payed for the cost of its own occupation...

so must Manchukuo

We hope Manchukuo will have an heir

The Empress is expecting a child

"Yes, Your Majesty...we are aware of the situation"

This is the name of the Father. His name is Chang

He is your driver

All the necessary facts have been recorded

The man will be punished

The Emperor cannot allow his honour to be stained

The Japanese are the only divine race on our earth

"We will take China, Hong Kong... Indo-China, Siam, Malaya"

Singapore and India

Asia belongs to us

There have been complaints from your cell mates

You must learn how to urinate at night without walking them all up

The way to do it...

is to urinate against the side of the bucket...

not into the middle

"Yes, comrade"

"You still think I'm your servant, don't you?"

You are all pretending

You are just pretending you have changed

The party it teach us to be new men

We are working for a new China

You worked in Amakasu's private office

You are still the same people

People do not change

Guard!

I let it happen

"The second edict, Your Majesty"

Japanese will be the official language in Manchukuo schools

Your Majesty...

"The baby was born dead, Your Majesty"

How is the Empress?

It would be better if she goes to a clinic...somewhere warm

"She's already left, Your Majesty"

Open the door

With Manchukuo now firmly in their grasp...

the Japanese soon controlled most of North China

By 1937 they were ready to strike South at the heart of the country

The attack on Shanghai was one of the first...

civilian bombing raids in history

It left thousands homeless

Thousands dead

Three months later Japanese armies...

were besieging the provisional capital...at Nanking...

and when the city fell ...the atrocities began

Trying to terrorise the rest of China into surrender

The Japanese high command ordered a massacre

More than two hundred thousand civilians were systematically executed

The world watched in horror...

but no help was given

On December 7th 1941 ...

Japan attacked the American fleet...

at Pearl Harbour

There was no warning

Manchukuo...the Japanese bustion in North China...

was still ruled by the puppet Emperor Pu Yi

But behind the facade of triumph...

was a country enslaved

A country where Japanese experiments in biological warfare...

were carried out on live human beings

A country where opium production became the easiest way to finance the war

Millions of people...were deliberately turned into drug addicts

Nine days after the bomb...

at Hiroshima on August 15th 1945...

Emperor Hirohito...announced the surrender of Japan

It was the first time...his voice had ever been heard...on radio

"You must get to Tokoy, Your Majesty"

You must surrender to the Americans not the Russians

The Communists will kill everyone

The Empress has returned

"Your Majesty, please"

Your Majesty

The women are not in danger. We must hurry

"Your Majesty, your Majesty is leaving now"

The Russians

Perhaps you think we are here to teach men to lie in a new way?

Why did you sign every accusation made against you?

I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this

Someone who signs anything

to please his enemies...to please me

You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo...

even the secret agreements

But you couldn't possibly have known about the Japanese biological warfare

experiments in Harbin. Could you?

So why did you sign these papers?

I was responsible for everything

You are responsible for what you do

All your life you thought you were better than everyone else

Now you think you are the worse of all

Why can you not leave me alone?

You saved my life...to make me a puppet in your own play

You saved me because I am useful to you

Is that so terrible?

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

By order of the Supreme People's Court...

the War Criminal Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi...

"male, fifty-three years old..."

of the Manchu nationality and from Peking...

has now served the years detention

As a result of remoulding through labour...

and ideological education...

during his captivity he has shown that he has genuinely reformed

In accordance with Clause One of the Special Pardon Order...

he is therefore to be released

You see?

I will end up living in prison longer than you

They are so young

It is dangerous

"Pu Chieh, look"

It is the Governor of our prison

It cannot be

"It is, I'm sure it is"

Be careful

Come back

"Comrade. This must be a mistake, I know this man"

He is a good man

Who are you?

I am a gardener

"Join us comrade, or fuck off'

But what has he done?

He's been accused

Accused of what?

Emperor's lackey

Revisionist element

Rotten rightest

Confess your crimes

I have nothing to confess

Kowtow to Chairman Mao

Confess your crimes

I have nothing to confess

Kowtow

Confess your crimes

Wait

He is a teacher. He is a good teacher

You cannot do this to him

Stop. You are not allowed in there

Who are you?

I live here

I am the son of the Guardian

"Ah. Well, I used to live here too"

That is where I sat

Who are you?

I was the Emperor of China

Prove it

This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony...

where the Emperors were crowned

The last Emperor to be crowned here was Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

He was three years old

He died in 1967