Underplayed Gems

The Last Emperor (1986)

The Last Emperor poster
Original title
火龍
Directed by
Li Han-hsiang
Genre
drama film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

This film follows the later life of Puyi, the last emperor of China. It shows his time in a war criminal management center and his eventual release into the new society, including his marriages to Li Yuqin and Li Shuxian. The story ends with his death during the Cultural Revolution in 1967.

biographicalhistoricalmelancholicslow-pacedreflectiveintimatesombergrounded

What happens

《火龍》(英語:The Last Emperor),是1986年上映的香港電影,由李翰祥執導,梁家輝、潘虹、李殿朗、李殿馨主演。片中稱「火龍」的意思是溥儀是「中國歷史上唯一一個火葬的皇帝」(然實际上順治帝也是火葬)。電影講述清朝最後一個皇帝溥儀的下半生,在撫順戰犯管理所,1957年由福貴人李玉琴提出離婚事件開始,到特赦出監,投入新中國,與李淑賢結婚,1967年最後在文革期間因病逝世。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.