The Last Emperor Page #5

You will rewrite your confessions

from the beginning!

Manchuria 1934

To heaven.

To earth.

To the moon.

To the sun.

You're an empress again.

What I'm going to be is a pilot!

I'm going to train at a secret

base near Yokohama to learn

precision-bombing.

I want to bomb Shanghai.

Bomb Shanghai?

I hate China!

I hate you.

The Japanese Army High Command!

Very impressive!

The Japanese Army!

Quickly!

Uh, may I introduce you?

My wife, the Princess Hiro Saga.

Prime Minister Hsiao Hsiu.

Honorable Chang Ching Hui,

Minister of Defense.

Monseigneur, Colonna.

The Empress and I accept with

great pleasure.

Excuse me, General.

Ahh! And now Mr, Amakasu.

He's the new chief of the Manchuria

Motion Picture studies.

Why do you have to spoil this day? Why?

Mr. Amakasu is the most

powerful man in Manchukuo.

What are you talking about?

You didn't believe I could be

Emperor again, but I am.

You are blind.

Do you know what it means

to be an empress? You are an empress!

Why do you not make love to

me anymore?

Because you have become an

opium addict.

Opium killed my mother,

opium destroyed China.

You can buy opium anywhere

in Manchukuo!

Shut up!

- In any shop.

- Shut up!

Your brother is going to have

a child.

We must have a child.

We must have an heir!

Emperor Hirohito has officially

invited us to Japan.

I'm going alone!

You are staying here.

I would never go to Japan.

Then go to your room!

Ten thousand years to His Majesty!

Ten thousand years!

I told you, I hate you.

Only because I give you what you need.

Now we're engaged.

You forgot my toothpowder.

Oh... yes... sir.

Move him!

Nine-eight-one!

Collect your things!

Upstairs!

Stop!

Your laces are undone.

Do them up!

Thursday, you serve lunch.

Friday, you clean the toilet.

Saturday, you sweep the floor.

I have never been separated

from my family.

You'd better get used to it!

You don't remember me, do you?

I was the Minister of Trade,

in Manchukuo.

You were all in Manchukuo.

Now, I'm the cell leader.

It is important to follow the rules here.

No talking during study session!

Manchuria 1935

Where is your gun, Captain?

Where are their swords?

Our weapons have been

removed, Your majesty,

on order of colonel Yoshioka.

Colonel Yoshioka?

Colonel Yoshioka!

What has happened here?

Why has my guard been disarmed?

Yes, it's very unfortunate, Your Majesty.

There have been many

changes while you were in Tokyo.

Your Majesty, may I present

Masaomi Kobayakawa, the new

Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo.

Why is prime Minister Hsiao

Hsiu not here to receive me?

The prime Minister has resigned,

Your Majesty.

His son been

assassinated.

Assassinated?

By communist bandits,

Your Majesty.

I must see him at once.

He refuse to see anyone, Your majesty.

He has gone to a monastery, far away.

Who are you?

Chang Ching Hui, Your Majesty.

Minister of Defense.

Yes, of course.

The council meeting will be at

four o'clock,

Your Majesty. Before the state dinner.

I'm going to have a child.

The father is Manchurian.

Colonel Yoshioka, Mr. Amakasu!

I did it for you!

His Majesty forgot to sign the

appointment of the new prime

Minister Mr. Chang Ching Hui!

I didn't forget.

When an Englishman robs someone,

Your Majesty, he becomes a gentleman.

If he robs a lot, he becomes a knight.

Do you imagine the British run

their Empire as a charity?

If India has to pay for the

cost of it's own occupation,

so must Manchukuo.

We hope Manchukuo will have an heir.

The Empress is expecting a child.

Yes, Your Majesty.

We are aware of the situation.

This is the name of the father.

His name is Chang!

He is your driver!

All the necessary facts have been recorded.

The man will be punished.

The emperor can't allow

his honor to be stained.

The Japanese are the only

divine race on earth.

We will take China,

Hong-Kong, Indo-China,

Siam, Malaya,

Singapore, and India!

Asia belongs to us!!

There have been complaints

from your cellmates.

You must learn how to urinate

at night without working them all up!

The way to do it's to urinate

against the side of the bucket,

not into the middle!

Yes, comrade.

You still think I'm your

servant, don't you?

We are all pretending.

You are just pretending

you have changed.

Shut up! The party will teach

us to be a new man!!

We're working for a new China!!

You worked in Amakasu's private office.

You are still the same people!

People don't change.

Guard!! Guard!!

Guard!!

And I let it happen.

I let it happen.

The second edict, Your Majesty.

Japanese will be the official

language in Manchukuo schools.

Your Majesty!

The baby was born dead, Your Majesty.

How is the Empress?

It would be better if she gone

to a clinic, somewhere warm.

She's already left,

Your Majesty.

Open the door.

With Manchukuo now firmly in

their grasp, the Japanese soon

controlled most of North China.

By 1937 they were ready to strike South,

at the heart of the country.

The attack on Shanghai was one of the

first civilian bombing raids in history.

It left thousands homeless,

thousands dead.

Three months later, Japanese armies were

besieging the provisional capital at Nanking.

And when the city fell,

the atrocities began.

Trying to terrorize

the rest of China,

more than two hundred thousands

of the civilians exacuted.

The world watched in horror,

but no help was given.

On December the seventh, 1941

Japan attacked the American fleet

at Pearl Harbor.

There was no warning.

Manchukuo, the Japanese bastion

in North China, was still ruled

by the puppet emperor, Pu Yi.

But behind the facade of triumph,

was a country enslaved.

Nine days after the bomb at Hiroshima,

on August the fifteenth 1945.

Emperor Hirohito announced

the surrender of Japan.

It was the first time his voice

had ever been heard on radio.

You must get to Tokyo, Your majesty.

You must surrender to

the Americans, not the Russians.

The communists will kill everyone!

The Empress has returned.

Your Majesty, please.

Your Majesty!

Hurry! There is no room on the

plane, Your Majesty!

The women aren't in danger!

We must hurry!!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty is leaving now!

Now!

The Russians!

Perhaps you think we are here

to teach men to lie in a new way.

Why did you sign every

accusation made against you?

I didn't step you from killing

yourself to see you like this...

Someone who signs anything to please

his enemies, to please me!

You know about a lot of things in

Manchukuo. Even the secret agreements.

But you couldn't possibly have

known about the Japanese biological

warfare experiments in Harbin!

Could you?! So why

did you sign these papers?

I was responsible for everything.

Your are responsible for what you do!

All your life you thought you were

better than everyone else.

Now you think you are the worst of all!

Why can you not leave me

alone?

You save my life to make me

a puppet in your own play.

You saved me because I'm

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