I re-visited this scene while listening to his music. This comment brought me to tears; people are leaving them on even old and obscure videos like this. I feel lost, I was proud just knowing I woke up under the same sun as him. One of the biggest musicians of all time. Rest in Peace Mr. Sakamoto.
yep. Didn't know he'd passed on :( still have the score. I was rather young when I saw the theatrical on videotape. Still have the Extended (the actual movie. the cut one makes no sense) on VHS double tape unique holder
It’s a really beautiful but sad film. It is so good actually, that I’m going to see if I can find it on a streaming site, I want to watch it again now!
0:10 Pu Yi: "As I stood before the throne that I had once sat upon as a child, worshipped and adored, I found myself looking back on my life and all the events that had led me to this moment. I realized that for all of the power I supposedly possessed as the Son of Heaven and the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, I truly had nothing and was nothing. From the moment I was taken from my mother to the Forbidden City, I had no control of my own life, no agency, no means by which I could chart my own destiny. I lived according to the whims and commands of others because I never had the chance to choose otherwise. But now, as I stand here, I feel this strange sense of inner peace which I have never felt before. I feel...free. Free to live my life as I choose to live it, answering to no one but myself. I only wish that I had discovered this freedom sooner. Who knows what I could have done and what I could have become."
This scene gave me chills. Puyi, despite his immense wealth and status, was always a prisoner to someone or something. First a prisoner to the forbidden city, then a prisoner to the Japanese, and finally a prisoner to Mao’s Re-Education camps. It is ironic that at his lowest point status-wise and money-wise, he is the freest he has ever been. And the grasshopper finally escaping represents that.
the grasshopper escaping onto the red guard boy is also a representation of the true giving up of the old age of China, which died with Puyi, and passed to the young boy, which represents the future of China, for better or worse, china is now no place for Puyi. very profound
The cricket was the emperor trapped in a prison, which is what he's been all his life. This is why the emperor disappears after the cricket is set free.
Actually I always thought it was the other way around. Puyi gives the container to the little boy, little boy opens it and turns around to find Puyi gone. Where did he go little boy thinks and then the cricket emerges, free of its imprisonment as much as Puyi is now free too.
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I thought it was interesting that the tour guide simply said of Pu Yi: "He was three years old. He died in 1967." and that's all the tourists would learn about him. I think that was the point of the movie, to inform Westerners and remind the people of China of this important forgotten period of history.
rsheldon86 that’s the fate of almost all humans in the world. Better than he fate of most, actually. Those two lines will be remembered longer than 99.99% of all lives ever.
@@OmegaTrooper Quite! Even Confucius, Alexander of Macedon, and all the other “greats” shall eventually be forgotten. Such is the nature of time. Rgds., G.M. Bar.
This masterpiece never grows old. The grasshopper at the end, I think it was a metaphor of Puyi. The scene that the grasshopper jump out the wood container, means Puyi finally get rid of all the fighting and politics(明爭暗鬥), which as an emperor, it' s like a curse, especially for a child emperor in the end of a dynasty.
Another interpretation is the grasshopper represents the ancient undying power of the imperial dynasty, which was now passing in a peaceful and loving manner to the youthful Republic of China, represented by the young boy. In China grasshoppers are symbols of good fortune and abundance, a totem for the blessing of prosperity.
Feather of Truth I agree with this, but I think the grasshopper is the passing of the spirit of China, which is the center of the world. Just as before, China rises now to become the center of the world.
it makes me deeply sad when remembering that once, he was revered as the Son of Heaven, and now, he became a simply humble old gardener, visiting his previous throne that he used to sit upon, becoming a museum artifact
Anthony von Hughes it isn’t just Americans you prejudiced person. It is a rude but necessary attention getting mechanism. Perhaps you imagine all Americans are wealthy enough or don’t care enough about their pets to be disabled from travelling because their first priority is to a family member that may not be human. Perhaps you are jealous of those who have been successful enough to receive a very inadequate taste of what antiquity was like? I dislike tourism because it is as cheap, shallow and laughable as that silly « Yankee Doodle » Horn (which isn’t actually so bad, loud or blaring) though there are many places I would dearly love to see. My three dogs (formerly four) are enough for now. Go make fun of me, trolls, have your insensitive troll parties.... my dogs are more love than many people will ever know. (Perhaps I am the jealous one, perhaps not)
I have a strange connection to this movie. My mother was expecting me when this movie came out and she watched it in a theatre in India. For some reason I've always felt an inexplicable interest in Chinese history and even fell in love with a Chinese man exploring that interest. I was finally able to visit the forbidden City a few years ago and it was magnificent and my trip to China very enjoyable on the whole.
Titanic is a great film, but you are not exactly reaching into the deepest well of comparison when you point to a single film, no matter how great it may be.
That's true. In fact at least 15 million people in Asia and around the world can trace their lineage to Genghis Khan. He really 'got around' if you know what I mean.
I know your comment is from 3 years ago, but Im gonna add: being emperor of China had various meanings throughout pu yi's life. Once, it means confinement, the other's acknowledgment and glory, but at some point he knows what it means to all China, and came to understand why court retainers lock him out of outside world, event though it's wrong. Who was once a cocky young man, now became a compassionate adult, taking blame for all horrible things that happened to manchurian and his people, as much as he's not solely responsible for it, and gain respect from prison guard, and then passing the legacy as spirit friend, even just for one witness
This is bringing tears to my eyes..I am Chinese and I always thought Puyi was an ignorant and arrogant coward. This movie changed my mind. He was just a normal person born in the wrong place and wrong time. He wanted to change, but it was too late. Bravo, to the crew of this incredible film.
@@williverson3405 the dude is pro-Han, anti-Manchu. the past could have been better, but really, no point in hating manchus of today. not much else to say.
When this film was shot in the Forbidden City late in the 1980's, China was still poor and semi-isolated from the Western Countries included the USA. A sister of mine and her husband visited Beijing Shi, the capital of China, at that time and the hotel employees told her that a year or a couple of years before an Italian film crew headed by famous Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci had stayed in the same hotel. Crowds of Chinese people, not used to see western faces in their city, would gather on the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of the westerners. Bertolucci filmed on location and it was the first time that Chinese authorities allowed westerners to film in the Forbidden City.
The irony is. I grew up even in 1998 it was isolated. I have never seen a foreign face. It's sad that China has changed. perhaps it could return to that past some day.
@@williamzhao2521 if you want to see the old china. I recall from some mission impossible producer that they was using some chinese village for the movie shot. It was said that this village wasnt changed that much for centuries. Unfortunatelly I forgot the village's name. You may trace from there if you wanted too.
My grandparents were among the first wave of Western tourists to visit China after it had reopened itself to the rest of the world. They acquired a souvenir from the visit there: an ivory stamp of our family name in Chinese. We still have it.
Really love the expression of Mr.Puyi/Lone at 0:10. The look of content (his eyes and subtle smile) and peace after what he went through and experienced. I felt that he was actually finally happy, free from all the burden , duties and traditions that he needs to hold as the emperor. One of the best endings to a movie in my books.
I saw this movie while in the Air Force and it left such an impression on me that two years later I took 2 semesters of Chinese history. All thanks to this wonderful movie who made me want to learn more about this fascinating country.
Love how the cricket symbolizes freedom at last when the cricket is set free from the container where it was lock away all those years in the final scene of the movie .
This is the Hall Supreme Harmony where the filmmakers filmed his scenes The last filmmaker to have filmed here was italian Bernardo Bertolucci. He was 46 years old He died in 2018 2:53 RIP
So many emotions in this scene. When Pu Yi suddenly gets the mischievous look on his face and suddenly has vitality as he goes to retrieve the grasshopper and then disappears without a trace it makes life feel so circular
This last scene, is so touching. The last emperor of China, telling to a little boy that he used to be the emperor , who doesn´t belive it, untill the old man gaves him his pet grasshopper in a wooden box. It´s a clear metaphore of the real life of Pu Yi, and the grasshopper jumping out the wood container, is the Pu Yi´s soul final liberation, of his troubled existence. Bertolucci was such a genius. This is one of the greatest movies ever done, and this is the best ending scene ever. =( .
It's not sad finally 溥仪 knows what's the most important things the childhood, the normal, pure heart, there is no war, no struggle, no desire,like at start a little children who has no idea what's emperor.
The only thing really sad was the life of Wanrong in her final days, which wasnt shown. Puyi deserved her fate and the torture she went through for everything he put her through.
1:55 - The first time I watched this movie, when they panned up to the top of the steps and Pu Yi is gone, I lost it. This is my #1 favorite movie of all time. The soundtrack from Sakamoto and Byrne is genius.
so good to know I´m not the only one who cries a lot every time watch this last scene. My film I love the most ever ! Absolutely brilliant and touching !
Un capolavoro impareggiabile, il più bel film mai visto. Grazie Bernardo Bertolucci,riposa in pace, hai consegnato alla storia del cinema un film indimenticabile.
This to me is one of the best scenes I have seen in any film and one of the prime evidence of Bertolucci's genius. Just enough subtlety to make it open to interpretation without being too vague. The theme by Ryuichi Sakamoto completes it perfectly and it is hard to imagine the scene working with any other piece of music.
I feel like there should be an Academy award for "most satisfying last scene". If there were, this surely would have won. So much symbolism is crammed in, without being contrived, and it just flows beautifully into the end credits. I feel like David Lynch does this amazingly with the end of season 3 of Twin Peaks. And Silence of the Lambs is also awesome in this respect. Anyhoo, knowing how to wrap a movie/show is such an impressive skill!
In the end of the film he lets the cricket free which symbolizes that he too is free that’s why he disappeared, his soul and spirit were free from his last life, his last visit to the forbidden city...
I believe this scene takes place on the 17 October 1967. The Day Puyi died. He arrives at sunset (marking the end of life) and this is his spirit returning home and finding peace (symbolized by the cricket leaving its cage)
I'm glad I finally got to watch this film. What an emotional roller coaster! I don't know what's sadder, seeing the beautiful young Empress transform into an opium addict or the Emperor sneaking in his own throne room trying to reminisce his past.
For so many reasons- historical, cinematic, personal- this is one of my favorite film endings of all time. The way it injects a hint of chinese mysticism into an otherwise straightforward history, the music, the timing... absolutely perfect. Right up there w/ "Gangs Of New York" for me as a tearjerker ending.
***** No, I mentioned that it was also an ending to a film that was personally moving to me. Did my comment imply that I held the films in any way equal? Of course "The Last Emperor" is a superior film.
In quoting my original comment, you left off the words "for me". These words were included to indicate the expression of a personal view. In this case, that personal view is that I found the endings to both films very moving. This was not a comparison of the relative merits of the two films, just as saying that I found a Mozart Sonata and a Pink Floyd song moving is not an attempt to place Mozart and Pink Floyd as artistically equal.
Now, If I had said, "'The Last Emperor' and "'Gangs Of New York' are the the two most moving films ever made", I could understand your original gripe. Hell, even if I had said "'The Last Emperor' and 'Gangs Of New York' are my two favorite films" shouldn't bother you, because even if you disagree with my taste, who gives a crap if they are? I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming from your user name that you are a fellow film buff. I'm sure a lively debate on the merits of our favorite or least favorite films would be possible if my assumption is correct.
If my assumption is not correct, and you are simply picking a fight whilst bored or trolling, feel free to ignore all this. I suspect you will anyway! ;)
One of the best movies based on fact I've seen. What happened to the last Emperor was tragic - taken from his parents at such a young age to satisfy and aging Empress' desire to leave an heir on a decrepit throne was plain evil in my eyes. He led what some might have called a good life, but was it? In the end, he was just another old man with some good memories, and many terrible ones.My heart went out to him. John Lone played his role to the hilt - I would love to have seen him in similar roles.
I think he did, he saw the beauty of his power which is his story. In the original, there's a scene where he has an epiphany and he says they'll save China with a story.
@@Emy-fv5ny The old lady at the start of the film was the Dowager Empress Cixi, at that time she had held the real power in the imperial court for forty years and ruled through a series of puppet emperors. Puyi's dad Zaifeng was the brother of the emperor she mentioned as having died (who she almost certainly had poisoned), Cixi and Zaifeng hated each other but he was the senior male member of the imperial house. She picked Puyi over his father because then Zaifeng would have to share a long regency with his wife the Empress Youlan who was also Cixi's niece. If Zaifeng was emperor he'd have all the power and could sideline Youlan to rule on his own
Deeply poignant ending to a movie I first saw as an 8yo. The scene before this, isnt that the one where he buys a ticket to go inside this very palace he once ruled? Unforgettable!
I’m amazed to this day that so much has happened in the last century! The Czar of Russia was toppled, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of China. So much can change within a century! This is just the type of movie that gives the example that no human can be immune to change…no matter what families they are born into!
it's hard not to feel the swell of emotion from such a grand ending the cricket is obviously symbolic of the EMPEROR'S final freedom from his past and the end of an era to one of the great civilizations of the ancient world !! beautiful soundtrack!!
Love this movie and the actors are incredible!! The music from RiuichySakamoto just wonderful ! The aging emperor was portrayed by John Lone my favorite Asian actor !!!!❤
The suddest, but the most beautiful, ending of all time. As a lid of the cage was opened by the boy for releasing a cricket, the emperor was missing, i.e. he abdicated the throne. By a little boy, his reign got perfection at last.
何も言えなくなるくらい、深い意味を持つラストシーン。
泣かずに観られない……。
今日映画館で観てきました
このシーンまではつらくやるせない展開が続く中、幼少期に貰ったコオロギがカゴから出て来るという映画ならではのファンタジー的演出に少し救われた気持ちになりました
そして現在(公開当時)の観光地となった紫禁城へ時間が飛ぶ演出、歴史を基にしている以上、自分たちが生きている現実世界と繋がりがあるのは当然なのですが、その事実が一気に迫って来てブワッと涙が込み上げてきました
高校生の頃、学校の図書室でこの映画を鑑賞して、中国に興味を持ち外国語の専門学校へ行こうかと淡い気持ちでいたら、親の知り合いを通じてまさか個人で(その当時は団体留学が主だった)北京へ語学留学する事になるとは、つゆにも思わなかったです。
私にとって、この映画は人生のターニングポイントでもあるので、時々観るとその当時の気持ちが蘇ります。
この映画音楽を担当され、甘粕正彦役で出演された坂本龍一さんが亡くなって悲しい。
今は辛すぎてどんな言葉も見つかりません。
このラストエンペラーのラストシーンは数多くある映画の中でも、本当に大好きなシーン
この映画のジョンローンがとにかく素敵過ぎる
Rest in Peace Master Ryuchi. One of the biggest soundtracks of all time.
I re-visited this scene while listening to his music. This comment brought me to tears; people are leaving them on even old and obscure videos like this. I feel lost, I was proud just knowing I woke up under the same sun as him.
One of the biggest musicians of all time. Rest in Peace Mr. Sakamoto.
Oh dang I didn't know Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away just 4 months ago! He was only 71 years old. No one deserves to die from cancer.
Yesss rest in peace great composer of beautiful music !!!
yep. Didn't know he'd passed on :( still have the score. I was rather young when I saw the theatrical on videotape. Still have the Extended (the actual movie. the cut one makes no sense) on VHS double tape unique holder
He played the one arm Japanese minister.
このエンディングの虫籠の蓋が開く音、二胡の始まる瞬間、アルプス一万尺の電子音、観光説明までもその昔に想いを馳せるきっかけになっているすばらしい作品。
この曲一番好きでした
R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto…
I've just found out receantly he died...It just so sad.
何度聞いても観ても、心にしみる。
どうゆうわけか泣けてくる。
坂本龍一さんは永遠です。
ありがとう！
美麗な色彩と荘厳な音楽に彩られた物語が、最後は何の色気も無いブザー音と、清王朝の歴史には微塵も興味が無さそうなツアーガイドの解説によって締め括られる。
諸行無常。大好き。
私も、コオロギが出てきた後の、このブザー音が、結構印象に残っていて。（笑😆）
坂本龍一さんには、お悔やみを申し上げます。😢
溥儀氏は現在皇帝の礼をもって陵墓に奉られています。
食通だった溥儀氏が晩年
「日本でチキンラーメンという即席ラーメンが出来たそうだから食べてみたい」
と言ったというのは有名な話ですが、平成時代の人気番組『トリビアの泉』でこの話が紹介され、恒例の"せっかくなので"フジテレビが霊前にチキンラーメンを備えたいと申し出たところ、快諾を得て、番組スタッフが溥儀氏の陵墓にチキンラーメンを供えに赴いていました。
It’s a really beautiful but sad film. It is so good actually, that I’m going to see if I can find it on a streaming site, I want to watch it again now!
The music is just... on another level. Thank you Ryuichi for blessing us with this amazing music. Rest in Peace.
まさにこのシーン泣けました。
3時間だとしても、溥儀の生涯を思うと、ねぎらいの気持ちが溢れ出ました。この曲も相まって、歴史に翻弄された数奇な人生だなって
音楽の入り方が絶妙！
観光ガイドの淡々とした感じが逆に胸に来る><
少年の演技もナカナカ良かった^ ^
感動しました！
圧倒され、
映画館を出てから
ぼんやりと電車に乗ったのはもう30年も前の事だけれど、
あの時のなんとも言えない
切ない気持ちは
今でも忘れられない。
ずっと心に残っている。
全てはこの『コオロギ』の伏線と坂本教授の音楽につながっている気がして、何回観ても泣きそうになる。
このシーンを見るために何度も映画館に通った。命の尊さ 儚さ やさしさ
過去にあった権謀術数や熱き使命感も忘れ去られ、ただの観光ツアーの訪問地に成り下がるところが涙を誘う。 歴史の重みを忘れるべきではない。
時の流れがあまりに早すぎる。
あまりにのう……
我らは何を為すべきや？
昔見た戊辰戦争モノ時代劇より
@@山田勇一-k1w 知っております。（笑😆）
Struggente questa scena finale di questo meraviglioso film che questa sera rivedro' ....per emozionarmi come sempre fa!!!!!💟🎼👏
@@uncosmopolitana
年末時代劇シリーズをご覧になってましたか？
그래 역사의 무게를 잊어선 안되니깐 독도는 대한민국 땅인 것도 인정해라 이제..
그것이 역사의 무게를 잊지 않는 것임 ^^
This scene moved me to tears as a kid. By the end of the movie, I felt Pu Yi had become an old friend sharing his life's story with me.
0:10 Pu Yi: "As I stood before the throne that I had once sat upon as a child, worshipped and adored, I found myself looking back on my life and all the events that had led me to this moment. I realized that for all of the power I supposedly possessed as the Son of Heaven and the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, I truly had nothing and was nothing. From the moment I was taken from my mother to the Forbidden City, I had no control of my own life, no agency, no means by which I could chart my own destiny. I lived according to the whims and commands of others because I never had the chance to choose otherwise. But now, as I stand here, I feel this strange sense of inner peace which I have never felt before. I feel...free. Free to live my life as I choose to live it, answering to no one but myself. I only wish that I had discovered this freedom sooner. Who knows what I could have done and what I could have become."
Where is this line from ? His book or interview?
@@a2zadi I made it up.
@@SapphireCrusader1988 lol
@@SapphireCrusader1988 If true, the closing sentence goes hard. Good writing.
@@Chreeeis Thank you.
子供ながら意味がわからなくても、コオロギが出てくるシーンで号泣したのを覚えてます。音楽は耳から離れませんでした。大人になって全てを理解できるようになった今改めて思います。この曲があってこそ、ラストエンペラーの素晴らしさが理解できたのだと。
このシーン…何度観ても涙が止まらない…
This scene gave me chills. Puyi, despite his immense wealth and status, was always a prisoner to someone or something. First a prisoner to the forbidden city, then a prisoner to the Japanese, and finally a prisoner to Mao’s Re-Education camps. It is ironic that at his lowest point status-wise and money-wise, he is the freest he has ever been. And the grasshopper finally escaping represents that.
Very well said!
Beautiful comment
the grasshopper escaping onto the red guard boy is also a representation of the true giving up of the old age of China, which died with Puyi, and passed to the young boy, which represents the future of China, for better or worse, china is now no place for Puyi. very profound
and a dying empire
@No username It’s ironic that you say this but can’t even spell “really” right 😂
坂本龍一の音楽がこの作品の心臓となって、壮大な生命を持った作品に仕上がったと思う。
速報で訃報を知った時は胸が苦しくなるほどショックで暫くは唖然状態になってしまいました。偶然にも懐かしんで彼の曲を聴きまくっていた時の速報でしたから。
大病をした後も痩せこけた姿で音楽に向き合っているのを見て涙が溢れて大丈夫なのと思ってましたが。悲しくて仕方がありません。😢😢
The cricket was the emperor trapped in a prison, which is what he's been all his life. This is why the emperor disappears after the cricket is set free.
puyi was a gardener in his last days. but he suffered as well.
Actually I always thought it was the other way around. Puyi gives the container to the little boy, little boy opens it and turns around to find Puyi gone. Where did he go little boy thinks and then the cricket emerges, free of its imprisonment as much as Puyi is now free too.
@Fair_Exchange methapore
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背景が真っ暗になっても音楽が流れ続ける演出ほんとに天才だと思う
めちゃくちゃ分かります。音楽になお集中できて天才です。
I thought it was interesting that the tour guide simply said of Pu Yi: "He was three years old. He died in 1967." and that's all the tourists would learn about him. I think that was the point of the movie, to inform Westerners and remind the people of China of this important forgotten period of history.
rsheldon86 that’s the fate of almost all humans in the world. Better than he fate of most, actually. Those two lines will be remembered longer than 99.99% of all lives ever.
@@OmegaTrooper Quite! Even Confucius, Alexander of Macedon, and all the other “greats” shall eventually be forgotten. Such is the nature of time.
Rgds.,
G.M. Bar.
@@gianmarcusbarreto3267 That brought chills down my spine.
Excellent observation.
We're destined to be footnotes if we're lucky enough.
This masterpiece never grows old. The grasshopper at the end, I think it was a metaphor of Puyi. The scene that the grasshopper jump out the wood container, means Puyi finally get rid of all the fighting and politics(明爭暗鬥), which as an emperor, it' s like a curse, especially for a child emperor in the end of a dynasty.
Another interpretation is the grasshopper represents the ancient undying power of the imperial dynasty, which was now passing in a peaceful and loving manner to the youthful Republic of China, represented by the young boy. In China grasshoppers are symbols of good fortune and abundance, a totem for the blessing of prosperity.
Another easily interpretation.
China has been passedby to the hands of the children to take of it from generation to generation.
Feather of Truth
I agree with this, but I think the grasshopper is the passing of the spirit of China, which is the center of the world. Just as before, China rises now to become the center of the world.
You can interpret whatever you want.. it' s a movie, no need to be rude *****
+Adam Sebastian or maybe a metaphor that he was finally free history was not nice to this man.
少年:待って！ここは立入禁止だよ！
老人:君は？
少年:ここの守衛。住み込みなんだ。
老人:私もここに住んでいたんだよ。あの席に座っていたんだ。
少年:あなたは？
老人:昔中国の皇帝だった者さ。
少年:証拠は？
ありがとうございます
The sad irony of watching Puyi's whole life for over two hours only for a tour guide to sum it up with just two short sentences.
Great way of summarizing it.
its impossible watch this scene without crying..
+Requiem PorMi
You're absolutely right any time i watch the Scene i Cry!
The power of the film is the truth in it
Yes, for the SALVATION!
Кевином Martell yeah
I watch this when I was a 15 and I cried without knowing exactly why.
Where men cried
このラストシーンなんか記憶に残るなぁ……
高校生の時、リアルタイムに映画館に観に行って、とても感銘を受けました✨
最後のジョンローンと子供のやり取り、英語がわからないんですが、すっごい覚えてます😂
そしてサントラの素晴らしさ❤😂
教授のご冥福をお祈りしてます😢
This film is so underrated today because not that many people have seen or even heard of this film before. I'd call this film a "lost" masterpiece.
I have thought the same thing for years. How this one slipped through the cracks is beyond me.
The Pianist Slip through the cracks? This movie won 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture. God you people are dumb lol
@@SycoticForeverNeverAF ask random people on the street, and the pianist will be proven right probably
@Rusty it won those awards, and then was forgotten apparently... Terrible
It’s difficult to get on DVD now and nowhere does digital rents of it
久しぶりに泣きました
こんなに短いシーンなのに...。
栄枯盛衰、物悲しく切なく、壮大な曲です…合掌
it makes me deeply sad when remembering that once, he was revered as the Son of Heaven, and now, he became a simply humble old gardener, visiting his previous throne that he used to sit upon, becoming a museum artifact
สสจ
But we are all sons and daughters of heaven, and if we are lucky, simple gardeners, too
Anthony von Hughes it isn’t just Americans you prejudiced person. It is a rude but necessary attention getting mechanism. Perhaps you imagine all Americans are wealthy enough or don’t care enough about their pets to be disabled from travelling because their first priority is to a family member that may not be human. Perhaps you are jealous of those who have been successful enough to receive a very inadequate taste of what antiquity was like? I dislike tourism because it is as cheap, shallow and laughable as that silly « Yankee Doodle » Horn (which isn’t actually so bad, loud or blaring) though there are many places I would dearly love to see. My three dogs (formerly four) are enough for now. Go make fun of me, trolls, have your insensitive troll parties.... my dogs are more love than many people will ever know. (Perhaps I am the jealous one, perhaps not)
Anthony von Hughes you’ll never know, if you keep being rude! :-D
Anthony von Hughes whatever.... have a good life! I may be terminally ill.... forgive any outburst, please
One of the finest endings for a film I've seen.
🏍️🏍️
I have a strange connection to this movie. My mother was expecting me when this movie came out and she watched it in a theatre in India. For some reason I've always felt an inexplicable interest in Chinese history and even fell in love with a Chinese man exploring that interest. I was finally able to visit the forbidden City a few years ago and it was magnificent and my trip to China very enjoyable on the whole.
This is one of the greatest movies ever made.
I was far more moved and transcended by this masterpiece, than I was by Titanic.
Titanic is very over-rated....
This was a far grander film in depth and scope than Titanic.
The end of this film really put pain in my soul
Titanic is a great film, but you are not exactly reaching into the deepest well of comparison when you point to a single film, no matter how great it may be.
Jenece Poree - I have to agree.
"I WAS the emperor of China."
Why does that make me choked up?
+Adam Syed Fun Fact: Puyi is the direct descendant of Genghis Khan. His family tree is on wiki.
That's true. In fact at least 15 million people in Asia and around the world can trace their lineage to Genghis Khan. He really 'got around' if you know what I mean.
I know your comment is from 3 years ago, but Im gonna add: being emperor of China had various meanings throughout pu yi's life. Once, it means confinement, the other's acknowledgment and glory, but at some point he knows what it means to all China, and came to understand why court retainers lock him out of outside world, event though it's wrong. Who was once a cocky young man, now became a compassionate adult, taking blame for all horrible things that happened to manchurian and his people, as much as he's not solely responsible for it, and gain respect from prison guard, and then passing the legacy as spirit friend, even just for one witness
Prissi Ananda beautifully stated and rings true
Oddly, Kahn is a derivative of Cohen, Kohanim (in Hebrew plural) and Quinn in Gaelic. Other variant cognates exist as well
This is bringing tears to my eyes..I am Chinese and I always thought Puyi was an ignorant and arrogant coward. This movie changed my mind. He was just a normal person born in the wrong place and wrong time. He wanted to change, but it was too late. Bravo, to the crew of this incredible film.
皇甫鹤 Chinese shill
皇甫鹤 How much of your social credit score has increased?
@@皇甫鹤 but Manchu is part of Chinese race. So you mean you want to fuck Chinese?
@@slmb_b seems like CCP upholds manchu culture..
@@williverson3405 the dude is pro-Han, anti-Manchu. the past could have been better, but really, no point in hating manchus of today. not much else to say.
When this film was shot in the Forbidden City late in the 1980's, China was still poor and semi-isolated from the Western Countries included the USA. A sister of mine and her husband visited Beijing Shi, the capital of China, at that time and the hotel employees told her that a year or a couple of years before an Italian film crew headed by famous Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci had stayed in the same hotel. Crowds of Chinese people, not used to see western faces in their city, would gather on the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of the westerners.
Bertolucci filmed on location and it was the first time that Chinese authorities allowed westerners to film in the Forbidden City.
The irony is. I grew up even in 1998 it was isolated. I have never seen a foreign face. It's sad that China has changed. perhaps it could return to that past some day.
@@williamzhao2521 Ignore the troll, Mr. Zhao.
@Dave chappelle the real Dave Chapelle would be ashamed to have a racist fanboy like you. PS Dave have an Asian wife
@@williamzhao2521 if you want to see the old china. I recall from some mission impossible producer that they was using some chinese village for the movie shot. It was said that this village wasnt changed that much for centuries. Unfortunatelly I forgot the village's name. You may trace from there if you wanted too.
My grandparents were among the first wave of Western tourists to visit China after it had reopened itself to the rest of the world. They acquired a souvenir from the visit there: an ivory stamp of our family name in Chinese. We still have it.
Really love the expression of Mr.Puyi/Lone at 0:10. The look of content (his eyes and subtle smile) and peace after what he went through and experienced. I felt that he was actually finally happy, free from all the burden , duties and traditions that he needs to hold as the emperor. One of the best endings to a movie in my books.
Once a emperor always a emperor. No one is obligated to free himself from who he is.
Well sadly that he is born to a royal family which make him suffered so much
I think he felt nostalgic...But in peace with his past.
溥儀の人生は一体なんだったんであろうか？幼くして即位し、時代の波にもまれて結局最後は庭師として、一平民として亡くなる。この映画は彼の波乱万丈の生きざまを描いている。そしてこのラストシーン、彼が即位した宮殿は観光地となり、ツワーガイドが言うことは「溥儀は三歳で即して1967年に亡くなった」たったそれだけ・・・。この言葉を聞いた瞬間、坂本龍一さんの素晴らしい音楽がながれはじめ、とにかく涙が止まらなかった。
I saw this movie while in the Air Force and it left such an impression on me that two years later I took 2 semesters of Chinese history. All thanks to this wonderful movie who made me want to learn more about this fascinating country.
One of the best ending I ever watch, very meaningful and symbolic.
One of the most beautiful crafted scenes in the history of film
Love how the cricket symbolizes freedom at last when the cricket is set free from the container where it was lock away all those years in the final scene of the movie .
An idea doesn't reach potential unless shared.
Myron Martin How did the cricket survive being locked up without food and water for so long?
@@sweetcandysugaarmy8480
maybe it's a metaphor
This series is so mellow.
何でかな…？この映画、特に終盤あたりは涙が止まらない。日本語吹替でも観たが、やはり舞台が中国なだけあってか、英語だととても違和感ある。中国語や広東語の吹き替えバージョンもあれば、是非観てみたい。大家盟友好！我喜歓末代皇帝的電映。
思い出深い作品です。一人で北京に旅行にも行きました。
色々問題はあるけれど、中国の歴史、文化は素晴らしいです。
清国は中国の歴史じゃありません。満州族の歴史です。清国は満州族のヌルハチが建てた帝国だので今の漢族の中国の歴史に関係がありません。
中華王朝として見れば満洲族(女真)王朝であっても中国ではあったのは間違いないし、漢族も文化的には同化している或いはしてた面も多いので関係ないとまでは断言できないのでは？
そもそも一番最初のコメ主は中華の漢民族文化や異民族文化をひっくるめて、それらを中国の歴史としているのでその指摘自体お門違いじゃないかと。
ともかく大清としてみれば後金から1912の滅亡やそれ以降の小朝廷(+張勲復辟)等の歴史は確かに深く面白いなとは思う。また宣統の末路を見ても、かつての大清帝国としての栄華と辛亥革命～戦後以降の凋落の比較からして中々哀れ。やはり大陸は興味深い。
そもそも紫禁城はクビライが建設した城ですし、溥儀は"I was the emperor of China."と言ってるので、漢族も満州族も全部含めて中国の歴史です。
国そのものが多民族国家なのです。
このシーンは涙が出る。
この映画をここまで昇華させたのは、教授の音楽がバックを流れるからなのでしょうね。。
This is as close to perfection as you can get in a movie. 10/10 masterpiece and legendary ending
このシーンからエンディングロールまで、BGMが教授の曲やから、溥儀の死去と教授の死去が被ってしまうんよ…
ほんまです。😂
Marvelous, a peace of art. Personally, I think is one of the movie you must watch before die. Regards from Argentina, everybody !!!
Saludos desde México 👋
This is the Hall Supreme Harmony
where the filmmakers filmed his scenes
The last filmmaker to have filmed here
was italian Bernardo Bertolucci.
He was 46 years old
He died in 2018
2:53
RIP
Ironic isnt it.Sad.
Bernardo Bertolucci, was born in 1941. He was 77 years old when he died in 2018.
😢
So many emotions in this scene. When Pu Yi suddenly gets the mischievous look on his face and suddenly has vitality as he goes to retrieve the grasshopper and then disappears without a trace it makes life feel so circular
R.I.P. 坂本龍一のエンディングテーマ曲なくして この映画の感動のラストは得られないでしょう。
私の亡き祖父が溥儀の人生に詳しかった。祖父は戦時中に満州へ渡ったと聞いた。そして戦後に帰国した。私の母がそのように話していた。祖父は極寒のシベリアで約４年間、捕虜として鉄道建設の作業員として、なんとか生きのびて帰国できたと。
すげえ
その日本を守るため努力された、犠牲をされた方々の上に、今の我が国があることを忘れてはなりません。
話は飛びますが、戦争終結後もソ連には侵攻する力はなく、米軍が支援していたという話もあります。
過去を軽蔑した目で見るのではなく、全ての方々の犠牲、努力の上に今の我が国があることを忘れてはなりません。
@@石原孟침략자 주제에 ㅉㅉ
えええ！凄いかな！詳しく歴史を聞きたい気がするね❗️
@@石原孟ソ連は独ソ戦で2000万人が亡くなったと言います。本音では参戦したくなかったのに、ルーズベルトが熱心に口説いてスターリンの功名心を刺激して(「日露戦争で失った国土を回復できる」とか)戦争に引き込んだようです。日本人のシベリア抑留も独ソ戦で荒廃した国土の回復のための人手として利用された。ひどい目にあわされたのだから当然という意識だったようです。日本はまったくソ連には被害を与えていないのに、ドイツの同盟国だったからというとばっちり。
This last scene, is so touching. The last emperor of China, telling to a little boy that he used to be the emperor , who doesn´t belive it, untill the old man gaves him his pet grasshopper in a wooden box. It´s a clear metaphore of the real life of Pu Yi, and the grasshopper jumping out the wood container, is the Pu Yi´s soul final liberation, of his troubled existence. Bertolucci was such a genius. This is one of the greatest movies ever done, and this is the best ending scene ever. =( .
John should be awarded for this wonderful acting!! He'll be remembered in our hearts and minds with beautiful oriental taste music!!
The saddest ending of all movies I've seen
It's not sad finally 溥仪 knows what's the most important things the childhood, the normal, pure heart, there is no war, no struggle, no desire,like at start a little children who has no idea what's emperor.
Yes, that's exactly what it's about!
Sadness and beauty are always companion spirits
Why sad? I think he was remarkable to accept and change, not get trapped by the ghost of grandeur. I think he is a symbol of hope
The only thing really sad was the life of Wanrong in her final days, which wasnt shown. Puyi deserved her fate and the torture she went through for everything he put her through.
1:55 - The first time I watched this movie, when they panned up to the top of the steps and Pu Yi is gone, I lost it. This is my #1 favorite movie of all time. The soundtrack from Sakamoto and Byrne is genius.
Dont forget about Cong Su! He also helped with the soundtrack
私の知っている映画で最も感傷的なシーン
good
大人の都合で皇帝の座に就かされ、
家族の温かな愛情にも飢え、
自分らしく生きたくても生きられなかった。
収容所生活を経ての質素ながらも
平穏な暮らしに溥儀は安らぎを覚えたのかもしれない。
豪華な玉座と無機質なブザー音との
不釣り合い感が何とも言えない。
（映画では描かれないが実際、溥儀は出所後に再婚するのだが
後妻さんは溥儀の浮世離れしたところに驚いたという。
夫婦仲は良好だった）
そう聞くと溥儀が昭和天皇と親しくしていたのもなんとなく分かるような気がする。誰もかれも自分を畏れ崇め奉るけどそれは自分への愛情じゃなくて立場に従って行動してるだけのこと。同年代且つ同じような立場だった昭和天皇に同じようなものを感じたのかもしれない
so good to know I´m not the only one who cries a lot every time watch this last scene. My film I love the most ever ! Absolutely brilliant and touching !
Gives me goosebumps every time I watch. He is finally free, relieved of all his responsibilities. No longer the emperor, just himself...
The score is gorgeous.
Un capolavoro impareggiabile, il più bel film mai visto. Grazie Bernardo Bertolucci,riposa in pace, hai consegnato alla storia del cinema un film indimenticabile.
このラストシーンで大号泣してしまい、同伴者にドン引きされました😂
ジョン・ローン大好きでした❤
金曜ロードショーで、水野晴朗さんが、このラストシーンの解説をされていました。中国ではコオロギは1000年生きると言われる、(映画冒頭にこのコオロギが出てくるが)それに比べて、人の一生は短く、儚い。そのような意味が込められたシーンです、と聞いて感動したのを覚えています。調べてみたら、コオロギの言い伝えは見つからないですが… でもメッセージは不変だと思います。
I am unaware that Ryuichi Sakamoto recently passed away. I will always remember the haunting melody of the theme of The Last Emperor. RIP Ryuichi.
I found out last week and now I feel f... sad. His music brought me to tears many times. He definitely was a special musician. 😢
I found out just now.
RIP Mr. Sakamoto.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
人生排名第一的經典電影，以後老了還是會一直翻出來看⋯雖然現在才17歲！
ジョンローンと教授の傑作ですよね！テーマ曲が老いた溥儀をひきたてています。名作です😊
この映画の公開直前、散髪屋さんで髪を切ってもらっていた時この曲が流れてきた。ちらっと聴いたことはあったが、まともに聴くのは初めてであった。あまりの素晴らしさに、涙が流れそうになって困ったのを覚えている。
This to me is one of the best scenes I have seen in any film and one of the prime evidence of Bertolucci's genius. Just enough subtlety to make it open to interpretation without being too vague. The theme by Ryuichi Sakamoto completes it perfectly and it is hard to imagine the scene working with any other piece of music.
1:54 - "Yes, little boy: I was the Emperor of China. And now, my work is done here."
His most important work was passing on his legacy and in having his biography published, he had done so by sharing his life's story.
The world would be better off without emperors
@@idyjohn No, that's your tradition like the United Kingdom.
The power of music how great you are Mr sakamato. Thanks for everything
I feel like there should be an Academy award for "most satisfying last scene". If there were, this surely would have won. So much symbolism is crammed in, without being contrived, and it just flows beautifully into the end credits.
I feel like David Lynch does this amazingly with the end of season 3 of Twin Peaks. And Silence of the Lambs is also awesome in this respect. Anyhoo, knowing how to wrap a movie/show is such an impressive skill!
In the end of the film he lets the cricket free which symbolizes that he too is free that’s why he disappeared, his soul and spirit were free from his last life, his last visit to the forbidden city...
little boy: who are you?
Puyi: I was the Emperor of China
little boy: prove it!
Puyi: bigfoot! drink this ink!
The disappearance of Puyi, leaving the empty chair alone, is a lengendary presentation of how present becomes history
I believe this scene takes place on the 17 October 1967. The Day Puyi died. He arrives at sunset (marking the end of life) and this is his spirit returning home and finding peace (symbolized by the cricket leaving its cage)
내 인생의 첫영화 ... 그 생생했던 감동은 잊을수없어..😢 푸이에게 경의를 표합니다.
I'm glad I finally got to watch this film. What an emotional roller coaster! I don't know what's sadder, seeing the beautiful young Empress transform into an opium addict or the Emperor sneaking in his own throne room trying to reminisce his past.
For so many reasons- historical, cinematic, personal- this is one of my favorite film endings of all time. The way it injects a hint of chinese mysticism into an otherwise straightforward history, the music, the timing... absolutely perfect. Right up there w/ "Gangs Of New York" for me as a tearjerker ending.
***** No, I mentioned that it was also an ending to a film that was personally moving to me. Did my comment imply that I held the films in any way equal? Of course "The Last Emperor" is a superior film.
In quoting my original comment, you left off the words "for me". These words were included to indicate the expression of a personal view. In this case, that personal view is that I found the endings to both films very moving. This was not a comparison of the relative merits of the two films, just as saying that I found a Mozart Sonata and a Pink Floyd song moving is not an attempt to place Mozart and Pink Floyd as artistically equal.
Now, If I had said, "'The Last Emperor' and "'Gangs Of New York' are the the two most moving films ever made", I could understand your original gripe. Hell, even if I had said "'The Last Emperor' and 'Gangs Of New York' are my two favorite films" shouldn't bother you, because even if you disagree with my taste, who gives a crap if they are? I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming from your user name that you are a fellow film buff. I'm sure a lively debate on the merits of our favorite or least favorite films would be possible if my assumption is correct.
If my assumption is not correct, and you are simply picking a fight whilst bored or trolling, feel free to ignore all this. I suspect you will anyway! ;)
+Lou McGrizzy please shut up with your stupid mouth no one what's to hear it!
I saw this fantastic movie in the early 90s. Such wonderful movie cannot be replicated today anymore.
He became Emperor , had an awful sad life and became a gardener and was happy at the end of his life . May he rest in peace
One of the best movies based on fact I've seen. What happened to the last Emperor was tragic - taken from his parents at such a young age to satisfy and aging Empress' desire to leave an heir on a decrepit throne was plain evil in my eyes. He led what some might have called a good life, but was it? In the end, he was just another old man with some good memories, and many terrible ones.My heart went out to him. John Lone played his role to the hilt - I would love to have seen him in similar roles.
+Mary Titus I agree - I too hope he found the peace he never had in life.
I think he did, he saw the beauty of his power which is his story. In the original, there's a scene where he has an epiphany and he says they'll save China with a story.
Why he was chosen in the first place, he was almost a baby?
@@Emy-fv5ny The old lady at the start of the film was the Dowager Empress Cixi, at that time she had held the real power in the imperial court for forty years and ruled through a series of puppet emperors. Puyi's dad Zaifeng was the brother of the emperor she mentioned as having died (who she almost certainly had poisoned), Cixi and Zaifeng hated each other but he was the senior male member of the imperial house. She picked Puyi over his father because then Zaifeng would have to share a long regency with his wife the Empress Youlan who was also Cixi's niece. If Zaifeng was emperor he'd have all the power and could sideline Youlan to rule on his own
@@Zeruel3 Wow, she sounds like a nasty woman. She even used her last moment to screw ppl's lifes. Thanks for the information!👍
Why is this film is nowhere to be found on greatest films lists is beyond me. What a masterpiece.
This is like a sad horror film. My guts were wrenched the entire time.
Anytime I cry at the end, this film is a masterpiece of beautiful and melanchony
Deeply poignant ending to a movie I first saw as an 8yo. The scene before this, isnt that the one where he buys a ticket to go inside this very palace he once ruled? Unforgettable!
I’m amazed to this day that so much has happened in the last century! The Czar of Russia was toppled, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of China. So much can change within a century! This is just the type of movie that gives the example that no human can be immune to change…no matter what families they are born into!
This scene impacted me so deeply. I love this movie.
it's hard not to feel the swell of emotion from such a grand ending the cricket is obviously symbolic of the EMPEROR'S final freedom from his past and the end of an era to one of the great civilizations of the ancient world !! beautiful soundtrack!!
Love this movie and the actors are incredible!! The music from RiuichySakamoto just wonderful ! The aging emperor was portrayed by John Lone my favorite Asian actor !!!!❤
So many different feelings. Incredible movie.
このシーン何度見ても心に染みるわ!
A masterpiece by Bernardo Bertulucci. I saw it 3 times when it came out. What an incredible film.
The suddest, but the most beautiful, ending of all time. As a lid of the cage was opened by the boy for releasing a cricket, the emperor was missing, i.e. he abdicated the throne. By a little boy, his reign got perfection at last.
The ending where the Emperor talks to that Red Guard kid, its one of the most touching scenes in the movie!
That's not a red guard, probably some school children on a cultural visit.
Si me hizo llorar 😭
La escena final
I dont know what to say...it's simply a normal kid