The Last Emperor Page #4

Bu-Bu-Booo. Bu-Bu-Booo.

Now she's gone and we're

throught Lord, I'm blue.

Very good.

That's a great ship...

if you're going first-class.

I'm not going anywhere.

Would you like to dance?

You're a brave man.

Nobody here would have

danced with me.

Why is that?

Because I'm Chiness.

Well, I'm American.

You say California.

I say French Riviera.

San Francisco!

Monte Carlo!! Are we really going this time?

Who's that couple?

Oh, Henry and Elizabeth.

The Emperor of China?

The Emperor and his wise.

She's beautiful.

Yes, very.

And who are you?

I'm His Highness's other wife.

His other wife?

Number two wife.

Well, some people have all the luck.

Ladies and gentlemen!

General Chiang Kai Shek

has taken Shanghai!

The Kuomintang have broken with the Reds

and have knocked them for six!

The Reds are finished!

Sorry about the reception, everyone!

It would be wiser to return to the Japanese

delegation now, Your Mejesty.

Your car is waiting.

Thank you, Mr, Amakasu.

The general strike in Shanghai

has collapsed.

The international settlement is safe.

Troops of the Kuomintang

are now in full control of the city.

And firm steps are being taken

to restore order

in the native areas.

Wen Hsiu, you want some gum?

I want a divorce.

I don't want to be your

mistress any longer.

I thought you were my

secondary consort.

In the Forbidden City, you were the

emperor and I was a secondary consort.

But now you are Henry Pu Yi.

Wan Jung is your wife, Elizabeth.

And who am I? I'm nobody.

I didn't know you were so unhappy.

You can only have one wife

in the West.

I want a divorce.

No one can divorce me!

I want a divorce!!

Your Ladyship!

Thank you.

I don't need it!

I don't need it!

Wen Hsiu?

Elizabeth! Can I come in?

Don't you remember me?

I'm dressed like a pilot,

but I still can't fly! Not yet.

Eastern Jewel!

We had dancing classes together!

Yes, just before your marriage.

Silly girl!

Why do people want to get married?

Wen Hsiu has gone.

She will never come back.

Is it so bad?

She was my only friend.

Well, at least now you've got

your husband all to yourself!

And you've got me!

I'll be your friend.

You smoke opium?

Be wicked It's the best in Shanghai!

Why are you going to Europe?

The place to go is Japan!

It's more fun than anywhere!

It's modern.

How do you know we're going

to Europe? It's a secret.

Oh, I know everything!

I know Chiang Kai Shek has got false teeth.

I even know his nickname,

"cash my check!"

I'm a spy.

I don't care who knows it.

A spy?

I work for the Japanese,

special service Bureau,

and I've come to protect you.

The Japanese.

They are getting closer to him everyday.

He is sending his brother to the

military academy in Tokyo.

They talk to him about Manchuria

all the time.

And Mr. Amakasu

never says hello to me.

I don't trust the Japanese.

Of course, I'd love to be the

Emperor's new secondary consort!

Eastern Jewel.

If the post is available.

The post is vacant,

my dear cousin.

But you don't fit the port!

Wen Hsiu left the dog behind.

Do you want it?

It's my fault.

It's all my fault.

I came to see you, Your Majesty.

To give you bad news.

Something terrible has happened.

The lmperial tombs of our Manchurian

ancestors have been attacked and robbed

by troops of the Kuomintang

Chinese soldiers.

A warlord working for

Chiang Kai Shek.

The body of the Empress Dowager

was hacked to pieces.

Her pearl necklace has become

a wedding present from

Ching Kai Shek to his new wife.

Tell me, nine-eight-one.

Do you consider yourself

to be Chinese?

Of course.

What is this?

Japan.

And what do you call this part

of China?

The Northeast.

And what did you call it

as a child?

Manchuria.

Japan invaded Manchuria on

September eighteenth, 1931.

and began to set up a puppet

state called Manchukuo.

Shortly afterwards, a Japanese delegation

paid you a secret visit in Tientsin

to request your collaboration,

which you say you refused.

Speak up!

I've already told you

I have told you a hundred times.

Tell us again! Tell us

two-hundred times!

I refused to collaborate.

You say you refused,

but a month later,

on November tenth, 1931

there your are arriving in Manchuria,

or should I call it Manchukuo?!

Now, according to this so-called

confession of yours, you didn't

go of your own free will!

- You insist that you were

kidnapped by the Japanese! /-Yes.

- And taken to Manchuria

by force! /-Yes!

Sit down!

Do you remember a man called

Reginald Fleming Johnston?

He was your tutor.

Yes.

And a good friend,

I believe.

After twenty-eight years in

China, Mr, Johnston returned

to England.

He became a professor

of original studies

at London University.

And he wrote a book. It's called

Twilight in the Forbidden City,

and it's dedicated to you.

Tientsin 1931.

I'm going to miss you,

Johnston.

I shell miss you, Your Majesty.

Do you think a man can

become emperor again?

Yes.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

How can we say "Good-bye"?

As we said, "Hello"

Farewell, Mr. Johnston.

Farewell, Your Majesty.

Good-bye, Mr. Johnston!

We'll never forget you, Mr. Johnston.

Good-bye! Mr, Johnston.

Good-bye! Good-bye!

On page four-hundred

and forty-nine, Mr. Johnston writes.

The endeavor to make out that

the Emperor had been kidnapped

by the Japanese is wholly untrue.

He left Tientsin and went to

Manchuria of his own free will.

Johnston was a liar!

What did you say?

I didn't hear you.

Mr. Johnston had left before

I was taken to Manchuria.

He couldn't have known

what happened.

Sit down!

According to this account,

you pre-packed the man's things

on the morning of November ninth!

Isn't it unusual for a man

who's kidnapped to have

his luggage packed

by his valet the day

before he's kidnapped?!

This is what you've written,

isn't it?!

Who told you to pack this man's luggage?!

These two stories don't fit,

do they?

It was a long time ago.

Perhaps I made a mistake.

You are lying!

You are both lying!!

Control yourself!

Request your choice.

Request you to change your mind.

I'm the hereditary ruler of the

Manchurian people.

There can be no Manchukuo

without me.

Do you not see?

The Japanese are using you.

I must try to use them.

The Japanese invasion of

Manchuria will be condemned

by the League of Nations

and by every civilized

country on earth!

The Chinese Republic had broken every

promise it ever made to me!

Chinese troops desecrated

the tombs of my ancestors!!

And Chinese troops didn't defend

Manchuria from the Japanese!

But Manchuria is still China!

China has turned it's back

on me.

Please, don't go.

Manchuria is the richest

frontier Asia!

Coal, oil, railways!

Millions of Chinese immigrants

are going there every year!

I'm going to build my country.

Johnston was wrong,

but he wasn't a liar.

There was no kidnapped!

You went to Manchuria by

your own choice, because

you wanted to be Emperor again!

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