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  • This play contains classical elements used by Sophocles and Shakespeare, and probes difficult human relationships as well as the latest of what we know concerning incest, betrayal and dynastic conflict. And WE'RE too stupid to read subtitles?!? I want to hear the real actors fury and concern! Fortunately, the original is on TV occasionally. And what a movie it is....in the original!

  • Li Gong is so beautiful.

  • That thing with the emperor confused me... Y was he being so nice after she took her medicine?

  • @TheKEface There was a lot of cruelty in his "nice" behaviour; he knows very well that she is slowly being killed by this medicine and yet she has no choice but to take it -- because he orders it. He is pretending to be very concerned about her health but he knows (and so does she) that it's a sham.

  • wait........ so the emperor is poisoning his wife?

  • @arthurpenhaligon1 yep, sadly.

  • yeah she did cheat but he did also. He had an affair with the Dr.'s wife that led to a son her step son..

  • @angelicwrd He didn't cheat on this one with the other woman. His son by the woman who is now the doctor's wife was born *before* he married this second wife, although he married this one mainly for political reasons. The problem his current wife has is that he obviously still has feelings for his first wife -- he kept her portrait hanging on the wall for 20 years.

  • 2.24 he elbowed her boob :o

  • Chrysanthemum means death or calm actually in chinese :o

  • damn , ater the empress drink the medicine , did u see the emperor face? (4:40) i wish i can punch his face >:[

  • @CrystalSStorm Really?!!!! she was having an affair with her "son" for 2 years. There is nothing to be proud of. She was an Empress and head of state having an illicit affair rather then be a role model or bettering the people and women around her, but she was just acting like a common whore and the way she treated the servants like a spoiled brat. The only strength and endurance she has was taking dick and causing a potentially huge political scandal. Why would that impress the Emperor?

  • @maven21 , he wasn't her son, it happens when the real love was dennied by husbants, he wanted her just for the crown and her death...

  • @labeate She was his step mother..and there was not much love if he was messing around with the servant girl.

  • @maven21 , hi was before with the empress, after with the servant girl....

  • It sounds better in Chinese...

  • dont touch to GOng li !!!!

  • how can he stand to be around gong li with such restraint? THUMBS UP & REPLY IF YOU LOVE GONG LI!

  • wait wait wait!!!! this is the forbidden city!!!! just remodeled.......? hmmmmm

  • the emperor's such an asshole.

  • @Pherokami Why because he is punishing a cheating bitch? What would you do if you were being cheated on. I am sure you would not be logical or enlightened. You would want revenge or some form of payback...at the least you would be pissed...now imagine yourself as head of state and your enemies hear that your wife is sleeping with your son they would be all over you in a flash. You would have to do something or find yourself crushed..

  • @maven21 Sure I'd be pissed. But I don't think I would slowly murder my wife and watch her suffer with sadistic pleasure. Besides, I really doubt that the emperor didn't cheat on his wife. Actually I'm pretty sure there was a different girl in his bed every week.

  • its an emperor not a king

  • how dare he touches her lips when he's the one poisoning her. that muthabeeeep.

  • Walk with your own legs son of a bitch!!!!

    It's a fucking life :S.

  • empress has been refusing give sexual favor to the emperor. Emperor can't tell this abuse to no one. his ego hurts.

  • I would rather 10 Shogun then that fat fuck!

  • Grr Gong Li is so beautiful and that retarded king damn him!

  • While I appreciate you uploading it regardless, it's a shame we can't hear Chow Yun Fat's own voice. He does such a wickedly superb job of portraying a character whose wealth and elegance is a clever facade for the kind of vicious, calculating killer the status of emperor would require.

  • @ChaoticSerenity I was just going to ask if this was chow yun fat :)

  • earth is orange shape

  • i love the carpets.

  • This movie hands down has one of the best scenery i've ever seen

  • Man gotta pick this up in blu ray. English Dub suck cock!

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  • ahah 2.26 servant dad elbow her boob

  • Yah know yah sound like a racist. Sounds better in chinese sounds stupid in English.

    Ideas and people are what they are regardless of race or language and because of it.

  • @wendyverdades that's not true, just because ppl would much rather see it in the original language with subtitles doesn't mean they are racist, I feel that a lot of times, many movies are better with their original audio because the sound matches better, the feeling and the voice of the actors are most emotionally connected, since when a voice actor is used to dub a movie like this, the feelings just is lost a lot of times.

  • @cherritown Didn't see the original post but I am also puzzled; how is it "racist" to prefer subtitles? I prefer them myself; I'd rather hear the actors' own voices, even if I need subtitles to understand what they're saying.

  • @cherritown THANK YOU:)

  • I wonder and wish it's available in the chinese language, not dubbed.

  • yeah, yeah hour of the whatever 

  • 6:50

    That fool emperor is completely doesn't know kow to use that kind of weight!!!

  • ooooh at 6:58 this old man is full of nothing but cruelty to gong li. I mean gong li's all pretty and all, but chow yun-fat is cruel. And for that matter i would never forgive him for what he did. "Curssssssse yyouuuuuuuuuu CHOOOOOOOOW YUUUN-FAAAAT!!!! CURSSSSSSSSSE YOU! I had enough of that guy.if i were in that movie one wrong move, and i swear i would cut him into itty bitty bitty little pieces of guts and blood, leaving his soul to fly into hell! And then, i, ira, will make him suffer an pay

  • that's a big table ....poker? anyone...

  • Bitch ass emporer

  • i hate the old guy

  • *shoots the boy who keeps yelling*as you were saying??

  • The Emperor said it wrong, Heaven is any shape and Earth is round,not square

  • @Jokerz199 In ancient China, people always think heaven is round and earth is square. (In Chinese: 天圓地方)

  • @Jokerz199 : You do not understand the history of China then... Do not need to speak up.

  • thank you so much janisjai for uploading! This film takes the breath away!

  • Well they didnt have clocks in those days, and they stay in that place all day they need to know the time XD

  • i love gong li and chow yun fat choy they each have a charater that rocks!

  • To have seen that Palace in its prime, man it would be amazing!

  • God I wanna go to the set. Where is it. They should charge admission and they wiould make a fortune everyear.

  • holy shit i had no idea chinese chicks had big boobs

  • @darkapaul

    it's only cuz what their wearing pushes their tits up jkjk yah some do

  • @AngelicMyuu No, I mean't that since they tried to dub. It sounds like an anime.

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  • Man this king killing his wife softly ...sweet enemy . Woow this movie must be cost so much money to make. I enjoy so much thanks

  • fuck anime. this is the real thing

  • I seems like an anime XD

  • That "dad" just hit her daughter in the BOOB! Wtf !

  • chicken roost, hour of the snake, hour of the tiger, the dragon, etc etc....this dubs are really annoying!!.

  • omg thats hatsumomo off memoirs of a geisha

  • Just started watching this today...man what a jerkoff..sending the mom's kids to force her to drink that sh*t! If he wants another chick..just put her away in the countryside. Using the children..that's just wrong!!

  • why does he want her to take the drugged medicine for?

  • so nice  n clear

  • at 5:49 makes the emperor look like a lazy ass

  • the empress should ask fher father for help, she should tell a spy to find out what is in that medicine.

  • jay chou looks so skinny here! he definately needs a workout! : )

  • OMG she should jump on him so he goes through his chair into the crap!

  • shit lol i want the original voices :@

  • chow yun fat is so damn hotttttttt!

  • maybe if he treats her right, she wouldnt have to cheat on him with his own son.

  • I forgot.... What was the medicine all about? I watched this movie before, but wasn't listening... XD Wasn't it like... poison?

  • the empress seemed to have GPS.. the maids who served the med always knows where she is...

  • i love how each son has a different color theme. beautiful costumes.

  • lol, you just can't see dubbed movies.

    There's something called subtitles. This makes it sound like a kid movie.

  • 9:10- that is A LOT of hate, lol...

  • Ok now i no im on prt 3 of this movie.. but whu eva has seen da whole movie.. culd some pls break the ending down to me... cuz i seen dis movie 10x an i still cnt understand the Ending :{.... pls sumone help me.. ooo yea dis is a great movie :D

  • I'd rather read the subs

  • The King so bad, want to kill the Queen. If only Jay Chou find out that the medicine is poisonous earlier would be better. Feel sorry for the Queen......

  • damn the king lays down the law!

  • sure she knows!

  • god bless the king!!!

  • i sympathize for the third son the most. china back then, wasnt so great. i also sympathize for the queen. this movie is just too sad. ive seen it so many time, this is my first with the english dub lol

  • does the queen know that her husband is killing her with the fungus root?

  • Not really,

    Though she does knows that something's not quite right.

  • She senses the king has something against her.

  • It's not only that, but the dubbers didn't know how to act. It lacked emotion and it most of the time they are out of place.

  • This film is music to my eyes. What an utterly lavish setting!

  • @lavenderblossom yea... so lavish that its unnecessary... i rather have them donate the money to the poor chinese kids in the west part of China...

  • @lavenderblossom I know, right? With the onset of more dedicated film-makers, people from all over the world will be able to have a glimpse of how China looks like from before. I know this isn't a real historical plot, but almost every element in this movie is based upon their real-life counterparts (such as the costumes). This is a wonderful piece of historical fiction.

  • it is but forbidden city doesnt exist until ming dynasty....

  • Ahh!! I hate the dubbed versions, does anybody know where can I find the original version with English subtitles?... There is absolutely no depth in these dubbed versions..!

  • Im curious theres 8 people carrying that chair i wonder how heavy it really is including him on it

  • whoa today is 9/9/09 and the movies date is also 9/9 weird and cool

    what a coinkidink

  • lol taking that many chinese herbs per hour every day would cure many things. sadly, if not for the persian black fungus, the empress would be quite healthy!

  • i think it's amazing the man power it took to create such epic proportions during that time. for example, the millions of golden chrysanthemums that all of the servants set out below the chrysanthemum terrace......incredible

  • 9th day 9th month is my b-day cool

  • lol the king is funny

    if i were there i would slap him lol

    just give him a bitch slap

  • id assassinate that king

  • that's absolute power- back then. the set is beautiful. love the color.

  • i LOVE the colours and textures, so beautiful :)

  • she has her reason

  • it's fascinating to watch the restraint the cast portray as the characters are forced to follow the protocols of their positions. ^_^ I'm also loving the beauty from the costume and set department. It's all so fascinating ^_^

  • i kno right, and the set is gorgeous eps the palacend what they wear, its all so gorgeous. yh and i noticed the restraint as well, i couldnt actually imagine being in those positions

  • i hate the king.

  • that shoutng boi is so fucking annoying. "hour of the" "hour of the" fucked up shit

  • i agree. that's like annoying alarm clock in the morning.

  • @shizi Horrendous in English. But very appropriate in Chinese.

  • @shizi

    thats what i was thinking

  • @shizi yeah sounds so stupid in english...

  • @shizi lmao

  • they are quite wealthy, aren't they? :D

  • lol i saw that

  • dang thata alot of stairs =.=

  • that's a good workout. hehehehehe.

  • Grr he annoys me.

  • is this at the forbidden city?

  • OMG it's so sad that the Queen kinda knows thats its posion and doesnt want to drink it. but everyone is so enforsive of her drinking it.

  • i never knew there was an english dubbed version of this movie because i have this with

    english subtitles

  • hi were can u buy the english dubbed version of this movie??

  • I donno about u but i have this movie, and when u press the (audio) button on the controle for yur dvd player u can change lanuages.

  • forbidden kingdom looks so small, the real one looks larger. much larger.

  • that aint the forbidden city. this is the Tang dynastry it did not exist then.

  • well i heard that the tang dynasty was when the chinese women exposed their cleavage most.

  • the colors of the kingdom is crazy beautiful

  • The Son of Heaven, dang..

  • Why was she taking te medicine in the first place???

  • She takes the medicine because the emperor orders it. He blames the empress' defiant attitude on a so-called "illness".

  • Oh, okay. Thanks for replying!!!!

  • and actually, the medicine is poison, so i'm guessing, so yeah. you can imagine how well that works for her.

  • the women in this movie must have felt pretty uncomfortable wearing such low cut dresses

  • very cool

  • the emperor is a bitch.

  • i think if you understand mandarin, its easiler to understand whats going on. the story seems more confusing in english...idk why.

  • very true. i saw this movie in chinese or mandarin w.e. on tv and i read the subtitles of course but it was much easier to understand it reading the lines vs. comprehending w.e they are saying in english.

  • how much is their budget to this movie? its all so grand!

  • the persian black fungus was obtained from scrapping it off the toes of conquered Arabs! Gosh, forcing her to drink that.....

  • Persian and Arab are 2 totally different cultures.

  • there were arabs in persia you know..... even at this time.

  • thats too much from long time ago it wasnt like that the war its fake like real wars dont look like that its too fantasy but good movie

  • janisjai, thnk u so much for uploading this.

  • i cant help it !!! their palace and costume is just too amazing !!!

  • dude thats just a small shot of ancient polotics for ya. you oughtta see what qin shi huang did to people. like public mutilation, also other emperors did worse, some executed people by means of cutting them hundreds of times. but very shallow and small cuts, to make them suffer for hours, sometimes the execution lasts for days as it might have been decreed that the person should receive thousands of cuts. isnt that utterly disgusting???

  • i luv this movie! but i prefer the chinese spoken version though......that whole medicine trick was cold.....

  • Actually, what I got was the emperor never really loved the empress but married her to secure his position. In any case, she was a shrew and he intended to drive her insane so he could dispose off her that way yet retain the loyalty of his sons and court.

    He knows of the affair and also that the empress knew of *his* own affair so he wanted to be rid of her.

    Just my two cents. :)

  • I believe you are correct. :)

  • Thanks! :)

  • Those flowers are beautiful! They're so many!

    For those who don't know the emperor played the pirate lord of singapore in pirates of the carribean 3 :)

  • haha! i like it wen the 3rd son says 'mother listen to father plz' its so cute

  • beautiful.  just absolutely beautiful

  • the king poisend the medicine on purpose cuz he thought that his son and the emperess were having an affair

  • WOWO!!!!! so many flower... is it real or not??? that's so crazy about the tea stuff... but why???? oh is it because that she's sneaking around witht he crowned prince?

  • Your servant kneels before you, it is the hour of GIANT FLYING CLEVAGE!

  • i know! they're gonna pop or something.

  • I think women can wear see-thru too at that time too.

  • I love the gothy operatic music in the background. Very cool. Just saw this DVD last night.

  • u see the poisen the girl is puttting it in rite but is the king ordering them to do it?

  • no they r seting her up the king thinks that hes giving her the right medicine they just f***ing it up thats all

  • The king is ordering his physician to give the queen the perisan black fungus to drive her mad.He knows that her and his first son was fooling around and is trying to make her "mad" thereby giving him an excuse to do some damage to her and worse...(At least this is what I got from the movie.)

  • acually the king knows what there doing hes ordering them too poisen the medicine

  • yea

  • what is she drinking

  • I think the few problems were whom of the sons will be emperor