Films Directory

Why was the camp guard in The Last Emperor executed as anti-revolutionary ?

In the movie The Last Emperor (1987), the camp guard who earlier oversaw Puyi's release from prison for his merits was led along the young Red Guards' demonstration as an anti-revolutionary. But if he worked as a prison guard in a prison for people like


This was a norm in the Communist world (also the Nazis etc, etc).

When a revolutionary starts thinking, and having at least a trace of a heart, the head revolutionary starts feeling threatened and has them killed. Mao and his wife were

The Last Emperor 1987 Trailer

At the age of three he become the emperor of china to the dragon throne.

The Last Emperor 1987 part 4 (11 parts)

For the entire movie playlist: www.youtube.com

'1911' has a fighting chance

Big, sprawling epic about the birth of modern-day China, “1911” is a cen-ten-ary tribute to the men and women of the Revolutionary Alliance who put their lives on the line to topple the corrupt Qing Dynasty and end Chinese feudalism.

The film, co-directed by cinematographer Zhang Li (“Red Cliff”) and the great Jackie Chan (it’s also supposed to be Chan’s 100th film), revolves around three characters.

They are Sun Yat-Sen (Winston Chao, who has played Sun Yat-Sen before, most notably in the 1997 film “The Soong Sisters”), who spends many years abroad raising money and awareness to support the revolution, often from nations such as Britain and Germany that have benefited from Chinese corruption and even colonized it; Huang Xing (Chan), a soldier who has learned the art of modern warfare in Japan; and Xu Zonghan (Bingbing Li of “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame”), a nurse who marries Xing and risks her life on the battlefield beside her great love.

The Last Emperor 1987 - Bookshelf


The last emperor ..., screenplay
254 pages
The last emperor ..., screenplay


The last Emperor
336 pages
The last Emperor


The Last Emperor 1987 - News


Is there a plan to bring the last Mughal Emperor back to India?
Is there a plan to bring the last Mughal Emperor back to India? A report on a project to repatriate the remains of the last emperor would make an interesting additional story. I asked a friend who had lived in Burma if she knew about any such plan. She said she did not, but she did remind me of another related

Finding Punt; Africa's Last, Lost Great Civilization Is In Eritrea
by Thomas C. Mountain After many years of often rancorous debate, Africa's last, lost, great civilization, The Land of Punt, has been proven to be located in the modern east African country of Eritrea. Using laboratory analysis of Baboon mummies from

A Month of Wednesdays | Archie, Athos, All-Stars and more
A Month of Wednesdays | Archie, Athos, All-Stars and more Archie Meets Kiss (Archie Comics) Archie has proven especially adept at coming up with attention-grabbing — as in mainstream media attention-grabbing — storylines of late, and of all the “stunt” stories they've pulled off in the last few years,

Forbidden City breaks down another barrier
Forbidden City breaks down another barrier The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 and listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. It has been known as the Palace Museum since 1925, soon after Puyi, the last emperor of

Forbidden City breaks down another barrier
Forbidden City breaks down another barrier The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 and listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. It has been known as the Palace Museum since 1925, soon after Puyi, the last emperor of