The war criminals will proceed in orderly fashion to the main waiting room and await instructions.
No talking! Obey the guards!
War criminals must proceed to the waiting room!
Those caught talking will be severely punished!
The emperor!
Your Majesty. Your Majesty. Your Majesty.
What do they think they are doing? Stop! It is dangerous!
Go back. Go back. Go!
Are you mad? They could kill us all!
Go! Go!
Open the door! Open the door!
Mama!
By the command of Her Imperial Majesty, also call, the compassionate,
and the Blessed, the Respectful and the Long-Living, the Empress Dowager commands.
Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, son of Prince Chun,
shall be transferred immediately to the Forbidden City and will remain in the great within,
awaiting Her Majesty's decision respect this!
Ar Mo I am giving your my son. My son is your son!
Quick! Quick!
I want to go home!
Look, look at all the camels. And look at the Forbidden City!
Give him to me.
Ar Mo!
Pu Yi, come here.
How small you are. Are you afraid of me? Everyone is.
I am the Grand Empress Dowager.
And I have lived here for a long, long time.
And they call me the old Buddha.
This is Peony. Do you like her?
Men, you know, are not allowed in the Forbidden City after dark.
Even little men like you!
The only man who can live here is the Emperor.
But the Emperor is on high, riding the dragon, now!
He died today!
Longevity.
These other men, they're not real men. They're all eunuchs.
And now, they're all wait for me to die.
That is why they're putting my bed in the middle of the room, under the black pearl.
Little Pu Yi, I have decided that you will be the new Lord of Ten-Thousand years.
You will be the Son of Heaven.
Are we going home, Papa?
Sssh! Sssh! Sssh! It will soon be over.
Look!
Papa. Cricket!
Cricket! Cricket! Where's the cricket?
Ahh, he is my friend, Your Majesty. Safe and warm under my arm.
Kept me company on the long journey here.
Ahh, see? He is kowtowing to Your Majesty.
Now, he can be the Emperor's Cricket!
Don't let anyone in here.
His soup is getting cold!
Get out of here!
Where am I?
In the people's Republic of China.
Why did you stop me?
You are a criminal! You must be judged?
I'm the lord of 10,000 years.
Come on.
If you really wanted to die, you would have succeeded.
You'll kill me anyway.
Whatever happens you'll be kept alive until you have been judged.
Your Majesty, this is the Forbidden City.
Ah, look! This little one is Your Majesty's bedroom. This is where we are.
Am I going home, today?
Not today, not yet. And here, look.
This is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where Your Majesty was crowned.
I give Your Majesty the Gate of Marshall Valor.
- I give you the maju-gate the... gate! - Yes.
Yes And the Palace with the Loudest Heaven.
Your Majesty, your Imperial bath is ready!
I don't like baths! I don't like baths! I don't like baths!
No beam curd today and no meat!
Is it true I can do anything I want?
Of course, Your Majesty!
Anything you want. You are the Lord of Ten Thousand Years.
Oh! Oh! Oh! No! Not in my face! Oh! Oh, no! No!
I'm the Son of Heaven! I'm the Son of Heaven!
- Yes! Oh, yes! - I am the Son of Heaven!
Ar Mo! I want to go home! I want to go home, I want to go home!
I want to go home, Ar Mo! I want to go home.
Once upon a time, there was a great tree and a great wind.
The tree and the wind were always fighting.
But when the wind came back,
it was angrier and stronger then ever.
Father.
My lady, she is new nurse.
This is a good breast milk.
Hey! Come on, hurry!
And how he became my child.
I repeat.
Prisoners going to their cells will walk with their heads bowed. Keep your eyes on the ground!
No looking forward or to the side!
The guards will give you directions and tell you when to turn!
Eye's down! Move!
Pu Chieh.
Your guest is waiting to meet you Your Majesty.
Also your mother has arrived.
You have not seen your mother for many years Your Majesty.
He is so small!
He is young, Your Majesty.
Go. Go!
The Emperor's brother His Excellency, Pu Chieh.
Ar Mo.
Stay with me.
How is the health of His Majesty's mother?
It is better, thank you. How much His Majesty has grown!
My mother has not seen me for seven years!
Do you remember my face?
No!
The night they came with the horses, I knew it would be like this.
My brother sees you everyday!
Pu Chieh is very excited to meet you. He often talks about you.
We are all very proud of you.
The kite.
He chose this for you.
Papa!
Some of my clothes are in these boxes.
This is the Imperial tea bureau.
My things are in that big box.
What is that?
My medicines.
- Pills for rectifying the vapors. - Look, a chamber pot.
These are my birds.
That is my heater and this is my camel.
They're turning away!
Of course! Ordinary people are not allowed to look at the Emperor!
I am too important.
Is it true that you can do whatever you want?
Of course, I can. If I am naughty, someone else is punished. One of them!
Stop!
The Emperor will walk.
I have never met other children. Are they all like you?
I've got three sisters and two friends.
If you come to our house, you can play with us.
The Emperor never leaves the Palace.
We play games together!
I know a game too! Run!
- The ones in the boat are the high consorts. - High consorts?
The wives of the emperor before me.
They say they're my mother, but they're not! They're not!
We are still short of the books, so prisoners will have to pass this around or read it loud.
The sooner you begin to learn the better. This is school.
History of the new popular democracy.
Pages 84, 85.
In February 1912.
2,000 years of imperial rule came to an end with the abdication of the Manchoo Dynasty.
China became a republic.
It was the year of the Rat.
Are you interested in ancient history?
School. This is a prison.
Real prison.
I told you to start reading.
You there, read aloud.
According.
According to the treaty between the empire and the first republic,
the emperor's taitou was retained and not abolished.
He would retain his palaces and he paid an annual subsidies of four million dollars.
The republic also guaranteed to protect the imperial tombs in perpetuity.
in return the dynasty surrendered forever it's right to rule the country.
Man, his nature originally good.
Let us see what the Emperor has done.
Your Majesty will do it again 5 times.
5 times?
10 times.
Why are you wearing that? You are not allowed to wear yellow!
But this is ordinary yellow.
It is Imperial yellow!
No, it is not!
We say it is! Only the Emperor can wear that yellow! Take it off!
No!
Take it off!
No! And you're not the Emperor anymore!
There is a new Emperor now!
He has cut off his queue, and instead of a camel, he has got a car!
What did you say?
You're not the Emperor!
Liar!
You're not the Emperor anymore!
Liar! Liar!
You're not the..
Liar!
- You're not the Emperor! - How dare you!
Calm yourselves! Oh!
You're not the Emperor!
How dare you!
No! Your Majesty! Calm yourselves!
Am I the Emperor or not?
Your Majesty will always be the Emperor.
You see?
Prove it!
Big foot, drink it! Go on, drink the green ink.
I will show you!
See? That is a car! He is the President of the Republic.
Why is this wall here, Lord Chamberlain?
It is just a wall, Your Majesty. Nothing has changed.
You are lying.
High Tutor, am I still the Emperor?
You will always be the Emperor inside the Forbidden City, but not outside.
I do not understand.
Outside China is now a republic, with a president.
Where is Ar Mo? Ar Mo?
You are all liars!
Let me say "good-bye"!
Hurry! Hurry!
He's my child! Ah!
Ar Mo? Ar Mo?
I don't understand.
Your Majesty is a big boy, now.
He can't have a wet nurse anymore.
It's much better like this. Much healthier.
But she is not my wet nurse.
She is my butterfly.
Ar Mo! Ar Mo!
This is the detention center of the Fushun Bureau of public security.
And I am the governor!
During the war, this was a Japanese prison.
Many of you may remember it.
Because you worked with the Japanese,
you were responsible for building it and you filled it with innocent people.
How could this happen?
Why did you betray your country?
What turned you into war criminals?
We believe that men are born good!
We believe that the only way to change is to discover the truth and look at it in the face.
That is why you are here.
You will begin by writing the story of your lives and by confessing your crimes.
Your salvation will lie entirely in the attitude you take!
I advise you to be frank and sincere, otherwise things can still go very badly for you.
You have learned that song very quickly.
That is a good beginning.
It is snowing.
We must stick to the same story or they will turn our words against us.
After a few years, the tiny republic had become as corrupt as the old empire.
It fell quickly into the hands of ambitions generals and corrupt bureaucrats.
The era of the warlords had begun. By May, 1919 when I received my appointment
China was in turmoil.
- China awake. - Parliament for sale.
Did you know they're now selling electro votes on the stock market.
Nothing has changed with the republic either inside or outside the Forbidden City.
- Except for the bicycles. - The students are angry.
But what can they do except shout.
The shops are closing.
So they are.
Maybe we'll be late after all.
Shall we take a short cut?
- Yes. - Use our feet.
Remember you're one of the first foreigners within the official post of the Forbidden City since Marco Polo.
It makes me very nervous.
The enemy.
Is there a dagger in my back?
Not yet.
My friend, it is not easy to forgive a foreign devil who knows Confucius better than they do.
And grows the finest pianist in Peking!
May the new tutor present himself!
Your Imperial Highness, the new tutor.
The emperor is honored to welcome his tutor.
Your tutor is honored to have been chosen, your Majesty.
One more time.
Your Imperial Highness, Mr. Reginald Fleming Johnston.
How do you do, Mr. Johnston?
How do you do, Your Majesty?
Now we will go to school.
Please begin the lesson.
Your Majesty, in my country, it would be usual to begin with some kind of an examination.
The Emperor can't be examined.
Well, that may have to change.
But first, Your Majesty might like to ask me some questions.
Where are your ancestors buried?
In Scotland, Your Majesty.
But then, where's your skirt?
In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not?
No, Your Majesty. Scotsmen do not wear skirts, they wear kilts.
Kilts?
Kilts. A matter of words, perhaps, but words are important.
Why are words important?
If you can't say what you mean, Your Majesty, you will never mean what you say.
And a gentleman should always mean what he says.
Ah yes, a gentleman. Are you a gentleman?
I would like to be a gentleman, Your Majesty. I try to be.
I'm not a gentleman. I'm not allowed to say what I mean.
They are always telling me what to say.
Your Majesty is still very young.
I thought he might like to see some English and American magazines.
I have just received them.
I know that you know that I know that you know that,
that is a dialog between Confucius and Chuang Tzu.
Concerning respect, Your Majesty.
Who is this "George Washington"?
A famous American, Your Majesty.
A revolutionary General. The first American President.
Ah! Like Mr. Lenin in Russia?
Not quite.
Does he have a car?
He lived a long time ago, Your Majesty.
I want a car.
I think your mouse is trying to escape, Your Majesty.
Please do not tell anyone about my mouse.
The lesson is finished.
Our official taster's a brave men.
Many of my ancestors have been poisoned, you know.
Does Your Majesty have lunch like this everyday?
Oh, yes! Every day! Like theater!
I don't know why. It has always been like that.
This is my royal food.
Your Majesty! There's one hundred year eggs.
Snake bow.
Angel's hair.
Garlic spark, steamed turtle, nut nipples...
There's a danger of poisoning pots.
That food comes directly from the high consorts.
Their taster had already tried them.
It always arrives a bit cold.
How do they kill emperors in the West?
The Austrian emperor was shot, was he not?
No, but his nephew was assassinated before the Great War.
But the Russian emperor had been shot. He was called a Tsar.
Yes.
He took lots of our land in Manchuria.
I'm a Manchurian. Even after the republic, it's still my country.
The secret, Your Majesty, is emerging again.
Is something the matter, Your Majesty?