The Last Emperor [extra Quality] «2027»

He is neither angry nor sad. He is simply relieved that the history is over.

While John Lone and the child actor Richard Vuu deliver haunting performances as the younger Pu Yi, the film’s emotional anchor is the adult emperor played by the unknown (at the time) Taiwanese actor, Zun Fu. The Last Emperor

Pu Yi’s life reads like a Kafka novel rewritten by Confucius. He was simultaneously worshipped as a deity and treated as a prisoner. Cut off from his wet nurse at a young age, he became a cruel, isolated child who took pleasure in commanding eunuchs to eat porcelain. Later, he would be expelled from his ancestral home by a warlord, smuggled into a Japanese safe house, and eventually crowned again—this time as the puppet Emperor of the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo. He is neither angry nor sad

: Puyi was crowned on December 2, 1908, under the era name Xuantong , meaning "proclamation of unity". Pu Yi’s life reads like a Kafka novel