The carriage escorts young Pu Yi (Age 3) through the Forbidden City past poor people begging and monks chanting melodiously. He's taken inside a palace. A man takes him. He is escorted into a beautiful hall, where he must kneel before statues and meet The Empress, who is very old. The Emperor died, early that day, she tells him. And she is going to die soon. She tells him he will be the new Emperor. throne, bow, column, dog, pet, pearl, lavish

ICONIC QUOTE:
"I have decided...that you will be the new Lord of Ten Thousand Years. You will be the Son of Heaven."
(The Empress)

TITLE: Last Emperor, The
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1987
LIBRARY: Recorded Picture Company
DIRECTOR: Bernardo Bertolucci
PRODUCER(S): Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
COMPOSER: Ryuichi Sakamota
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389
IMDB SCORE:  0.0
TALENT: Lisa Lu, Richard Vuu
GENRE: Biography, Drama, Foreign, History, Iconic, Literary Masterpiece, Period Piece, True Story, War
ERA: 1950s, 1960s
TERRITORY RIGHTS:  Worldwide
TERM RIGHTS: Perpetuity
ICONIC TITLE: yes
FILENAME: rpc-emperor-006
DURATION: 00:04:46:00
TIME IN: 00:09:06:00