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> ask yourself, what does re-pasting irrlevant drivel

Excuse me, but that was the only relevant issue at the first place. To those who questioned the authenticity of the Kantonese spoken in The Departed, I simply have said that it was not supposed to be genuine Hong Kong people speaking Kantonese, in fact according to the reality of the Asian-ethnicity oriented criminal underground in America, that would be very fake if these people were from Hong Kong, plus against the thematic concerns of The Departed.

But what the hell does your ranting here has to do with The Last Emperor is beyond any understanding of any sane people anyway... Which makes you automatically a troll here (or anywhere for that matters, since all your posts are filled with stupid arrogance but with no actual contents at all).

To those who questioned the authenticity of the Kantonese spoken in The Departed

...AND YOU STILL EVADE FROM THE ISSUE THAT WAS DISCUSSED....

n fact according to the reality of the Asian-ethnicity oriented criminal underground in America, that would be very fake if these people were from Hong Kong, plus against the thematic concerns of The Departed.

you could have grown up in Amsterdam, San Francisco, or even Malawi... if you speak Chinese at all, or have had learned the language even as a child, you would not have a problem understanding the errors they made with the dialogue in that scene as simply poor research, bad writing, and miscasting... not to mention the scene was poorly shot and edited.

Btw, you brought up the subject... similar to the many times you've ran yourself into walls of embarrassment before your account was deleted.

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> The Chinese characters WERE supposed to be from Mainland China. They are identified as such in the film in fact.

Where? Them selling the chips supposedly to the Chinese government (which sounds very fishy, it should have been North Korea) doesn't make them Chinese from mainland China, or actually can only mean the contrary. You must be extremely naive if you thought that they were from the mainland since they were making deals with the government, and hopelessly ignorant about the criminal scenes, and in diplomacy. To the contrary, they would never do that.

That is something that is probably only my imagination, but personally I even thought that the government representative must be a fake one within the context of the film. No government official of the Chinese government would be THAT stupid, concerning the delicate situation between the United States and China. China is one of the most important power in international politics, a permanent member of UN security council, and virtually the only country that can say an effective "no" to George Bush in international politics today. Their diplomats would never behave that recklessly, like those coming from some African or Latin American third world countries (who are involved in drug-deals in may so-called advanced country, getting away without being arrested since diplomats cannot get arrested). If the FBI really have arrested them including the government representative, that would be way too huge a scandal whether Costello gets arrested or not would be a very minor thing. Nobody with some commonsense won't be able to take the situation of the scene seriously. And if he were a diplomat, he cannot get arrested at the first place, so the FBI would have set a far-more complex trap than that, especially when China is involved.

...And China doesn't need stealing computer chips for missiles anyway...

But I have no idea if the filmmakers tried to imply that the entire thing was fraud or not. The above is not enough indication anyway, cannot tell if either it was bad-screenwriting/movie fantasy or implied lies.

> Basically, little thought or research went into this scene from all angles and the result was badness.

Since it was a very minor scene anyway, my guess was that they just recruited people from New York's chinatown with the right look (obviously first-generation, uneducated lower working class--and they do look like that), tell them what to say and what would be the scene, the dialogues made up by the actors themselves--which is the way I would have done, the easiest and cheapest, while most reliable and realistic.

But this has nothing to do with The Last Emperor and why a scene from The Departed should be discussed here on The Last Emperor board is beyond any understanding of a sane person, including the outrageously lunatic fact that some people stalk other people to other board, that being their only usage of IMDB, which is supposed to be a deta base website.

> There is a reason after all why it was reported that in many screenings in Hong Kong of The Departed, audiences were laughing out loud at that scene.

Sorry for the Hong Kong people but that is a very minor issue anyway.

That is something that is probably only my imagination, but personally I even thought that the government representative must be a fake one within the context of the film.

Sorry for the Hong Kong people but that is a very minor issue anyway.

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

> That's not the only opinion you have imagined which resulted in further embarrassment to your lunatic self when you tried to argue as if you knew what you were talking about --

Errr.... What is the relevance to this post that you are responding? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93737414&a mp;a mp;a mp;p=4#93737414 Are you totally insane or what??

Nobody with some commonsense won't be able to take the situation of the scene seriously.

But I have no idea if the filmmakers tried to imply that the entire thing was fraud or not. The above is not enough indication anyway, cannot tell if either it was bad-screenwriting/movie fantasy or implied lies.

Here for us to witness the typical lunacy of KONSUCK

And... who cares about your bluffing lies? If you try to pretend that you know them, try to do better than that, like writing about the contents of your "conversations" which should include some insights about the creation of the music. Without that, everybody can pretend that since everybody can check on IMDB that Tan Dun did also the music for Crouching Tiger, and Sakamoto did the music for Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence and Gohatto. Therefore, what you wrote doesn't extend a lie that anybody can make .

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

> I have met Tan Dun, as well as Ryuichi Sakamoto, and spoke extensively to Sakamoto-san about his work with Oshima Nagisa as well as Bertolucci in film music.

And what did you talk about? You know that just repeating "I met this famous person!" is a lie that anybody can make, while if you provided an insight on their works based on that conversation, then people finally can actually believe that you have met them.

Silly...

But then, maybe they were not at all impressed by yourself they just said "hello" very politely and never engaged in an meaningful conversation....

Just to make you jealous http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93689421&a mp;p=3#93689421

This is not made public yet so I don't know if it's true or not, but if it were true then Martin Scorsese must have been very impressed by this Toshi Fujiwara....

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

So shifting again the subject of conversation since again another lie of yours would remain proven as a lie?

So what did you talk about with Ryuichi Sakamoto? What did he say about the creation of the music for this film? You pretending to know him has absolutely no value to be exposed in a public forum, you know, and with your past records of lies and innaccurate informations (like hallucinating on a non-existent government building...) destroying your credibility, nobody would believe your bluffing anyway.

Or maybe they were not at all impressed by yourself they just said "hello" very politely and never engaged in an meaningful conversation....

Just to make you jealous http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93689421&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;p=3#93689421

This is not made public yet so I don't know if it's true or not, but if it were true then Martin Scorsese must have been very impressed by this Toshi Fujiwara....

So what did you talk about with Ryuichi Sakamoto? What did he say about the creation of the music for this film? You pretending to know him has absolutely no value to be exposed in a public forum, you know, and with your past records of lies and innaccurate informations (like hallucinating on a non-existent government building...) destroying your credibility, nobody would believe your bluffing anyway?

> Just to give you an opportunity to learn a thing or two, Sakamoto is not big into conversations,

So you heard nothing substantial...which also means that you have nothing to prove that you have actually met him, hence you most probably have lied...

The rest you wrote are nothing more than commonly spreaded gossips, which by the way Sakamoto has publically denied, that there were no disagreements between him and Bertolucci on the music (while he plainly admitted that Bertolucci wanted him to commit Harakiri for the suicide of Amakasu, and he refused that, insisting on the historical fact that Amakasu committed suicide taking poison. They settled on the gun at the end).

Besides, if they disagreed, why Sakamoto did also the music for Little Buddha?

PS. The reason why most people don't believe in your bluffing is very simple; professionals working in the industry would certainly have second thoughts revealing their job on a public board, since that would involve a risk in their work. Only people with no important responsibility would do that.

So what did you talk about with Ryuichi Sakamoto? What did he say about the creation of the music for this film? You pretending to know him has absolutely no value to be exposed in a public forum, you know, and with your past records of lies and innaccurate informations (like hallucinating on a non-existent government building...) destroying your credibility, nobody would believe your bluffing anyway?

The rest you wrote are nothing more than commonly spreaded gossips, which by the way Sakamoto has publically denied, that there were disagreements between him and Bertolucci on the music (while he plainly admitted that Bertolucci wanted him to commit Harakiri for the suicide of Amakasu, and he refused that, insisting on the historical fact that Amakasu committed suicide taking poison. They settled on the gun at the end).

> So what film are you talking about now? Do you mean Oshima, or Bertolucci?

This proves very well that you actually haven't even seen The Last Emperor, in which Ryuichi Sakamoto also played the role of the legendary former colonel of Japanese army and president of the Manchurian film studios, Masahiko Amakasu. And in the film, Amakasu committs suicide with a pistol, while historically it was by using cyanide, and in the screenpaly it was a harakiri, which Sakamoto refused.

So what kind of insightful conversation you could have without even having seen the film (not even to mention what the hell you are doing on this board...).

PS. The reason why most people don't believe in your bluffing is very simple; professionals working in the industry would certainly have second thoughts revealing their job on a public board, since that would involve a risk in their work. Only people with no important responsibility would do that.

So what did you talk about with Ryuichi Sakamoto? What did he say about the creation of the music for this film? You pretending to know him has absolutely no value to be exposed in a public forum, you know, and with your past records of lies and innaccurate informations (like hallucinating on a non-existent government building...) destroying your credibility, nobody would believe your bluffing anyway?

The rest you wrote are nothing more than commonly spreaded gossips, which by the way Sakamoto has publically denied, that there were disagreements between him and Bertolucci on the music (while he plainly admitted that Bertolucci wanted him to commit Harakiri for the suicide of Amakasu, and he refused that, insisting on the historical fact that Amakasu committed suicide taking poison. They settled on the gun at the end).

Why you are spaming this board with the same message that you have already posted? Are you a troll?

Anyway, a good proof that you have been lying all the time... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93755604&a mp;p=5#93755604

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

Why you are spaming this board with the same message that you have already posted? Are you a troll?

So instead of trying to prove that you actually have met Ryuichi Sakamoto (now quite undoubtedly one of your lies), all you can do is just harping on a minor mistake of others...

While Mr. Film Indstry didn't even know that Sakamoto, playing colonel Amakasu, commits suicide in The Last Emperor with... what instrument? This is a quiz. Maybe you should ask Sakamoto how he died in the movie , in case you really had a conversation with him--which nobody can believe now.

While Mr. Film Indstry didn't even know that Sakamoto, playing colonel Amakasu, commits suicide in The Last Emperor with... what instrument?

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

Why you are spaming this board with the same message that you have already posted? Are you a troll?

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So now you call the death of one of the main character of the film a "trivial matter"? No wonder, since you haven't even seen the film The Last Emperor...

why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, created by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and Tan Dun, since you claimed that you know something about?

Why you are spaming this board with the same message that you have already posted? Are you a troll?

Pfff....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?p=5&d=93 757480#93757480

And what happened to the contents of your supposed conversation with Mr. Sakamoto about... a film that you haven't even seen? I mean, if you had, then of course you must know that Amakasu (Sakamoto) commits suicide...

And why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, since you say you had not once but several conversation with the composer of... a film that you haven't even seen, and yet the music for that film was the subject of your conversations? Quite odd, hmm....

And why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, since you say you had not once but several conversation with the composer of... a film that you haven't even seen, and yet the music for that film was the subject of your conversations? Quite odd, hmm....

> THE LAST EMPEROR is not a film that impresses me

Then what is the purpose of your coming here other than being a typical troll and a net-stalker?

But then, how can you be "impressed" at the first place since you haven't even seen it?

> THE LAST EMPEROR is not a film that impresses me

Then what is the purpose of your coming here other than being a typical troll and a net-stalker?

And why don't you post some valuable knowledge about the music of The Last Emperor, since you say you had not once but several conversation with the composer of... a film that you haven't even seen, and yet the music for that film was the subject of your conversations? Quite odd, hmm....

So again spaming the board with the same message, in a desperate efforts to hide that you lied about meeting Sakamoto and have discussed his collaboration with Bertolucci?

Why you have to continue this silly behavior? IMBD is not a playground for stalker trolls like yourself, you know?

But how would you dare to come on The Last Emperor board without even seeing the film, therefore not even knowing that Sakamoto was also an actor in the film and played a crucial character who commits suicide, still pretend having a conversation regarding this film, and post that glaring lie on this board? Are you totally insane or something?

> what I wrote above serve to provide infinitely more relevance and insight into the work of Sakamoto in relation to THE LAST EMPEROR

How listing up his discography that is public (and a very partial one that all his fun would laugh at...) can provide any "insight" is beyond any sane person's understanding, amen. You don't need to talk with the guy to write what you wrote. And how can you have any relevance since YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE FILM???

So again spaming the board with the same message, in a desperate efforts to hide that you lied about meeting Sakamoto and have discussed his collaboration with Bertolucci?

Why you have to continue this silly behavior? IMBD is not a playground for stalker trolls like yourself, you know?

> Just to remind you to provide an answer to the question: HOW DID TAN DUN WORK ON BERTOLUCCI'S FILM THE LAST EMPEROR?

Pffff....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93757480&a mp;a mp;a mp;p=5#93757480

...why you are so childish?

> In discussing the music to THE LAST EMPEROR,

Don't shift the responsibility. That is what you are supposed to do since you pretend having talked with Sakamoto, and not me. And somehow, you have been totally unable to write something that reflects your experience of actually having talked with him--there fore, the logical conclusion is that you lied and bluffed.

Please stop this ridiculous behavior. Grow up. And yeah, watch at least the film The Last Emperor before coming here.

Would anyone who professes expertise on Bertolucci make that kind of mistake, as you have - insisting TAN DUN composed the music to THE LAST EMPEROR, instead of CONG SU... and when you realized you made that glaring stupid mistake, instead of admitting it, you digress into multiple irrelevant topics trying to hide the fact you are not the expert you claim to be?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93755760&a mp;a mp;a mp;p=5#93755760
Furthermore, when you challenge me by stating I have not met Ryuichi Sakamoto, I simply provide proof by providing information on the conversations I have had with the composer, as well as my thoughts on his work based on my knowledge of his music and the discussions I have had with him. You not only show more stupidity, but exude undeserved arrogance by ranting nonsense and ignoring facts you weren't even aware of when you harp on trivial details to THE LAST EMPEROR.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/board/thread/81246290?d=93759460&a mp;a mp;p=5#93759460

If you don't know as much as others, why not just shut up and let people think you are an idiot, instead of rant nonsense 24/7 and confirming you are a bigger fool than what others could imagine?

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> Would anyone who professes expertise on Bertolucci make that kind of mistake

Who has ever professed expertise on Bertolucci? Again your self-projection?

> and when you realized you made that glaring stupid mistake

What? Just a minor mistake on the name of the three composers, and nothing to compare with NOT KNOWING THAT ONE OF THE MAJOR CHARACTERS IN THE FILM COMMITS SUICIDE... Pffff....

> Furthermore, when you challenge me by stating I have not met Ryuichi Sakamoto,

Well, since nothing indicates that you actually have met him, apart from you saying you did... All you can say about Sakamoto is what you can google search in English, that's all...

And you bluffing that you met him...I mean...WHO CARES? If having met him enables you to write interesting insights about the artist and his works, that would be nice, and I've been waiting for something like that for the sake of IMDB, but all you could write was an unconfirmed gossip that Sakamoto himself plainly denied, also denied by his further collaboration with Bertolucci on Little Buddha, and a very vulgar gossip if you ask me, nothing to do with anything creative.

While you don't have to meet Sakamoto to know that he fine-tuned electronically the piece called "Rain" so that the speed match the action on screen, and things like that. Oh but then you certainly have no idea what I mean by this, since... you haven't seen the movie, so you also don't know that one of the major characters in the film has a divorce.

> and when you realized you made that glaring stupid mistake

What? Just a minor mistake on the name of the three composers

If having met him enables you to write interesting insights about the artist and his works, that would be nice, and I've been waiting for something like that, but all you could write was an unconfirmed gossip that Sakamoto himself plainly denied, also denied by his further collaboration with Bertolucci on Little Buddha, and a very vulgar gossip if you ask me, nothing to do with anything creative.

While you don't have to meet Sakamoto to know that he fine-tuned electronically the piece called "Rain" so that the speed match the action on screen, and things like that.

> If you can't even identify the work to its creator,

Just a name, so? And you are trying to capitalize a fake argument on a mere minor mistake to hide the fact that you cannot provide anything convincing to make people believe that you actually have met Ryuichi Sakamoto. And even if you have met him, SO WHAT? Since you haven't learned anything from the man about his works, that is totally stupid and pretentious.

> what qualifies you to comment?

Well, when you haven't even seen the work... I mean, you ignore even the basic plot of a film and you pretend to preach something about it? That is called stupidly arrogant.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Ryuichi Sakamoto plays the role of colonel Masahiko Amakasu, who commits suicide... actually a quiz: when does he commits suicide? It's very easy, and you can answer that even if you haven't seen the film, since to guess that you simply need to have some commonsense on history.

> you spent hours trying to find proof so you can debunk my post about Sakamoto

What? I am merely pointing out that there's no proofs in what you pretend in your posts. It is for you to prove, and you haven't done anything effective. That is all.

How silly you are... I mean, you started to make posts on this board for... what? Just a result of stalking on the IMDB boards. That's silly...

> to show I simply copied from other websites... but you failed.

What have I failed? Oh, please don't make another lie, not again! All you wrote are things that can easily be found on the internet, and nothing to bluff about "personally meeting him."

Just a name, so? And you are trying to capitalize a fake argument on a mere minor mistake to hide the fact that you cannot provide anything convincing to make people believe that you actually have met Ryuichi Sakamoto.

What have I failed? Oh, please don't make another lie, not again! All you wrote are things that can easily be found on the internet, and nothing to bluff about "personally meeting him."

> Yes, it's just a name. If someone professed to be a fanboy of Scorsese or Bertolucc

Who did that? One of your self-projection-oriented hallucinations again?

Why you need to continue this stupid personal feud. You know damn well your credibility was destroyed completely again, as it always happen.

> rom Chinese language, to even the music to a film you so highly praise

I know much better than you do, like I know that Amakasu (Ryuichi Sakamoto) commits suicide in this film--nothing to bluff about, since all you need to do is to watch the film . What is more important in talking about films than just memorizing names and bluffing on "knowledge"? Of course, to have seen the film, and have enjoyed it. You don't even understand such simple thing, that is why you can only be an arrogant pretentious loser, often called "cinematic illiterate."

Oh, and speaking of language, do you need to be reminded about your chiken Japanese? And now that you believe that I am a Japanese filmmaker (whom you called amatuer, but doesn't change the fact that the film that again you haven't seen was quite well recieved in many first-rate festivals that you never get invited), you should have understood that you made a huge mistake pretending to be an authority on...a language that you don't even know...

And what happened to your deeply insightful posts about Ryuichi Sakamoto's music for The Last Emperor, since you bluff about having met him and talked about that?

I know much better than you do, like I know that Amakasu (Ryuichi Sakamoto) commits suicide in this film--nothing to bluff about, since all you need to do is to watch the film . What is more important in talking about films than just memorizing names and bluffing on "knowledge"?

You know damn well your credibility was destroyed completely again, as it always happen.

And now that you believe that I am a Japanese filmmaker

> While I've simply stated I am not as impressed with the film

How can you be when you haven't seen it?

I must have watched THE LAST EMPEROR at least a good 10 times - first on the big screen, and then later on HBO (which was more due to coincidence as I just had it on while I was working on my final year thesis). It was in fact the last time I saw a film together with my late grand-father, who was greatly disappointed with how the film distorts history in typical cinema fashion. I'm not impressed by it, neither do I think much of SHELTERING SKIES, or Bertolucci's DREAMERS... In my opinion, THE LAST EMPEROR is ambitious, but ends up being Bertolucci's attempt on a period film similar to what BLACK RAIN (1989) was to the Yakuza-eiga - they remain an outsiders point-of-view that is filled with Western propaganda and stereotypes. While it was the last good role John Lone was cast to play, and one of Peter O'Toole's better performances in the beginning of his winter years [after his great work in MY FAVORITE YEAR, that is], it is not impressive to me. Sakamoto's performance is surprisingly mentioned by you to a great extent, but to me his was one of the lesser performances in the film - the man belongs with music, not in acting - that's quite obvious from his performance in MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, which relegated Sakamoto and David Bowie to the level of support roles compared to what Beat Takeshi and Tom Conti were able to deliver... I'm still amused at the way Oshima allowed Sakamoto to keep the same stagey make-up seen on his album cover artwork during that era. He should have never allowed that kind of anachronism to be included in the film.

I know much better than you do, like I know that Amakasu (Ryuichi Sakamoto) commits suicide in this film--nothing to bluff about, since all you need to do is to watch the film . What is more important in talking about films than just memorizing names and bluffing on "knowledge"?

You know damn well your credibility was destroyed completely again, as it always happen.

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but it's The Sheltering Sky, not "skies. And no wonder a cinematic illiterate would never understand the sensual subtleties of a film like that.

Hilarious! So you watch a film that you were not impressed for 10 times, and with a film that you have watched 10 times, you don't even recall how one of the main character dies. How silly. As I said to some other poster on this thread, why you waste your own precious time like that? Not to forget that The Last Emperor is a very long film.

So in conclusion, you went to see Ryuichi Sakamoto and talked about a film that you were not impressed, and you waste your time on IMDB to post your silly opinions on a board about a film that you were not impressed, just to stalk someone that demolished your arrogant ego, and posted so many messages for...what? That fits the definition of a stupid troll, I suppose.

> Yes, that is my mistake... but by far trivial compared to your stupid self who thinks TAN DUN composed the music to THE LAST EMPEROR

Errr... I think mistaking the title of a film is a far graver error than mistaking some composers... Sorry for your nationalistic sentiment, but my mistake is nothing more than confusing Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner, which is something many people do (for a reason you obviously totally ignore... the style of the music is very similar), but I agree, less than forgetting the death of one of the main characters of a film that you saw 10 times .

> I am laughing my head off from your stupid writing here... read it again

I would even copy paste it for you to read:

Hilarious! So you watch a film that you were not impressed for 10 times, and with a film that you have watched 10 times, you don't even recall how one of the main character dies. How silly. As I said to some other poster on this thread, why you waste your own precious time like that? Not to forget that The Last Emperor is a very long film.

Errr... I think mistaking the title of a film is a far graver error than mistaking some composers... Sorry for your nationalistic sentiment, but my mistake is nothing more than confusing Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner, which is something many people do (for a reason you obviously totally ignore... the style of the music is very similar), but I agree, less than forgetting the death of one of the main characters of a film that you saw 10 times

> I think not, that kind of lunatic logic only exists in your pathetic little psychotic world.

I think your obsession on the name of a composer can exist only in your pathetic little psychotic world... While forgetting how one of the main characters of a film that you saw 10 times meets his end...? Please don't lie. Just admit that you haven't seen it.

And the stupidity of stalking someone on IMDB, being glued to a thread solely for the sake of annoying someone that you stalk is a good example of your pathetic little psychotic world.

And what happened to the creative insight about Sakamoto-Bertolucci collaboration that you were supposed to provide? It looks like I did far more (though just two anecdotes...), though I never pretend having met Mr. Sakamoto...

I think your obsession on the name of a composer can exist only in your pathetic little psychotic world... While forgetting how one of the main characters of a film that you saw 10 times meets his end...? Please don't lie. Just admit that you haven't seen it.

> Right, giving credit to a composer for work he didn't do on a film you so highly praise for its music is a trivial matter?

Since it's only a minor mistake... Even trivial, compared to one of the essences of the story of the film (and in the life of Pu-Yi) in which Sakamoto as colonel Amakasu occupies a central role (well, that's entirely fictional, though)...

> No one even needs to watch THE LAST EMPEROR to know how Sakamoto's character died,

You don't "need" to, as if you watch the movie, you automatically know. But you didn't, so...

> but you seem to think so highly of the scene that it remains the highlight of the movie to you?

Errr... Since it's part of the august 1945 scene... I hope you have enough commonsense to understand what "august 1945" means...

> Wow, while others may discuss how Joan Chen's talent was hamstrung by having to deliver her lines in English,

These "others" must be blind, a cinematic illiterate like yourself; she actually had spoken perfect English in this film that you haven't seen, and especially her last scene was extremely poignant and disturbing--so strong you see several threads about that on this board.

> you harp on trivia that's not even one of the better performances in the film?

Errr... So you clearly haven't seen the film, nor understand the subject matter, nor who Pu-Yi was, nor never hearing of Manchurian puppet empire...

Well, the role of Amakasu in the film is way over-exaggerated in the film, in history he was just the president of a propaganda film studio, but in the film that you are supposed to have seen 10 times, Amakasu is the master-mind of the Japanese imperialism... Of course it's not historically true at all, but even if his English may be too accented, his delivery of the speech that effectively condense the central idea of the Japanese Imperialism was pretty astonishing. Seems like Sakamoto had a hard time not to laugh doing that scene, but that doesn't appear in his cool performance.

So getting back to the point, his death is in no way "trivial," since it signifies the death of the Japanese Imperialism that manipulated Pu Yi and destroyed his life... If you saw the film 10 times and still didn't get it, you must be a total idiot...

But then, you didn't see it so you thought it was only about the last emperor of China. Well, his role in the China-Japanese war was pretty important, and the Manchurian portion is very important in this film, too.

Since it's only a minor mistake... Even trivial, compared to one of the essences of the story of the film (and in the life of Pu-Yi) in which Sakamoto as colonel Amakasu occupies a central role (well, that's entirely fictional, though)...