Archive for Biography

The Last Emperor (1987)

Director : Bernardo Bertolucci

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Genre : Biography, Drama, History

Cast : : , John Lone as Pu Yi – Adult , Joan Chen as Wan Jung , Peter O'Toole as Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston , Ruocheng Ying as The Governor (as Ying Ruocheng) , Victor Wong as Chen Pao Shen , Dennis Dun as Big Li , Ryûichi Sakamoto as Amakasu , Maggie Han as Eastern Jewel , Ric Young as Interrogator , Vivian Wu as Wen Hsiu (as Wu Jun Mei) , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Chang (as Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa) , Jade Go as Ar Mo , Fumihiko Ikeda as Yoshioka , Richard Vuu as Pu Yi – 3 Years , Tsou Tijger as Pu Yi – 8 Years (as Tijger Tsou)

Plot : The fairy-tale of the very last Emperor of China.


Run Time : 163 min | 219 min (television version)

Country : China | Italy | UK | France

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Language : English | Mandarin | Japanese | Russian

Filming Locations : Beijing Studios, Beijing, China

Company : Recorded Picture Company (RPC)

Trivia : Hairdresser Giancarlo De Leonardis imported 2,200 pounds of man hair to type the showy wigs required given that the court. For the coronation scenes, his workforce depleted ten time keep fit exercise fifty Chinese to staple wigs also plaits onto two thousand extras inside not wide awake to two hours.

Goofs : Incorrectly regarded for goofs: The glide steer at the comprehensive of the picture says that Pu Yi was 3 life archaic at his coronation. Pu Yi was born Feb. 7, 1906 with invested Nov. 14, 1908, adults 2 life 10 months. However, the steer was probable by means of the Chinese episode system, inside which somebody is without gentleman intervention adults “1″ as soon as born.

Tag Lines : He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change.

Plot Summary : A dramatic past of Pu Yi, the concluding of the Emperors of China, cherish his lofty looming furthermore fleeting reign inside the Forbidden City, the criticize of worship by half a billion people; ended his abdication, his rebuff furthermore dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, furthermore at protracted last to his unclear days for only an additional peasant staff inside the People’s Republic.

A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the phase of three was accepted the Emperor of China, with dies because a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told inside a noteworthy flashback/flashforward style, we ascertain of Pu Yi’s childhood, the term he worn-out imprisoned inside the Forbidden City, his span because the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, with his final opens up muck inside with to public survival inside 1959.

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Director : Paul Schrader

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Genre : Biography, Drama

Cast : : , Ken Ogata as Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970") / Narrator , Masayuki Shionoya as Morita (segment "November 25, 1970") , Hiroshi Mikami as Cadet #1 (segment "November 25, 1970") , Junya Fukuda as Cadet #2 (segment "November 25, 1970") , Shigeto Tachihara as Cadet #3 (segment "November 25, 1970") , Junkichi Orimoto as General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970") , Naoko Otani as Mother (segment "Flashbacks") , Gô Rijû as Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks") , Masato Aizawa as Mishima – age 9-14 (segment "Flashbacks") , Yuki Nagahara as Mishima, age 5 (segment "Flashbacks") , Kyuzo Kobayashi as Literary Friend (segment "Flashbacks") , Yuki Kitazume as Dancing Friend (segment "Flashbacks") , Haruko Kato as Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks") , Yasosuke Bando as Mizoguchi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion") , Hisako Manda as Mariko (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Plot : A fictionalized value inside four segments of the subsistence of Japan’s raved it up twentieth-century person who wrote it Yukio Mishima… See more » |


Run Time : 121 min

Country : USA | Japan

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Language : Japanese | English

Filming Locations : Tokyo, Japan

Company : American Zoetrope

Trivia : A great bulk of the finance was Japanese although, bizarrely, the Toho workshop with their spouses suffer many times denied that they sunk $2 million dollars into the film. Director Paul Schrader : ” I moved to Japan with we suffered a Japanese producer who was able to add to half of the plan prepared his own cash with take pleasurable in Fuji Television with Toho-Towa. Then, of course, the Japanese financiers tested to pluck out at the concluding small attributable to strain take pleasurable in the widow. There was one more drama relating to that with the consequence was that they collapseed us the cash on the abundant hand claimed that they didn’t. To this day, they statement that they ended not finance the film.”

Goofs : Factual errors: The phrase “country” written inside Japanese kanji on the hachimaki is the simplified character. On the real hachimakis, the kanji as “country” was the protracted traditional form.

Tag Lines : On November 25, 1970, Japan's greatest author Yukio Mishima commited an act that shocked the literary world…

Plot Summary : A fictionalized view inside four segments of the subsistence of Japan’s had a ball twentieth-century writer Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments similar opportunities inside Mishima’s subsistence along furthermore his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko’s House, plus Runaway Horses), moment the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, "The Last Day"…

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The Miracle Worker (1962)

Director : Arthur Penn

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Genre : Biography, Drama

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan , Victor Jory as Captain Arthur Keller , Inga Swenson as Kate Keller , Andrew Prine as James Keller , Kathleen Comegys as Aunt Ev , Patty Duke as Helen Keller

Plot : The fairy-tale of Anne Sullivan’s battle to inform the blind furthermore deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.


Run Time : 106 min

Country : USA

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Language : English | American Sign Language

Filming Locations : Big Sky Ranch – 4927 Bennett Road, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company : Playfilm Productions

Trivia : Several actors inside workplace records/casting get adapt of kinds finished not fall or were not identifiable inside this movie. These were (with their conduct names): Diane Bryan (Martha at Age 5), Donna Bryan (Martha at Age 7), Peggy Burke (II) (Helen at Age 7), Keith Moore (I) (Percy at Age 6), Mindy Sherwood (Helen at Age 5) furthermore Walter Wright Jr. (Percy at Age 8)

Goofs : Continuity: The mannerism Annie holds the doll adapt following Helen gets do any person a favour inside bed following reading ‘milk.’

Tag Lines : An emotional earthquake!
A mighty motion picture experience. . .touch it. . .sense it. . .feel it. . .you can't forget it!

Plot Summary : Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, with mute because infancy, is inside hazard of human being sent to an institution. Her inability to converse has vanished her unsatisfied with violent. In desperation, her parents hunt give a person a leg up cherish the Perkins Institute, which convey each other a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" found out Annie Sullivan to coach their daughter. Through staying power with love, with downright stubbornness, Annie breaks finished Helen’s walls of quiet with shade with teaches her to communicate.

The precise narrative of Helen Keller plus Annie Sullivan, a compulsive struggle to plague out of the question obstacles plus the effort to communicate. As a juvenile girl, Helen Keller is afflicted plus cherry fever. The degenerative disease vegetation her blind, mute, plus deaf. Sealed off enjoys the world, Helen cannot write to anyone, nor somebody plus her. Often unsatisfied plus desperate, Helen soars into compulsive rages plus tantrums that terrorize her pathetic family. The clever counselor Annie Sullivan is summoned by the breed to be a tower of force to the babe discern the universe enjoys which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller enjoys her internal penitentiary forever.

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Yip Man (2008)

Director : Wilson Yip

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Genre : Action, Biography, Drama, History

Cast : (Credited cast) , Donnie Yen as Ip Man , Simon Yam as Zhou Qing Quan , Siu-Wong Fan as Jin Shan Zhao , Ka Tung Lam as Li Zhao , Yu Xing as Master Zealot Lin , You-Nam Wong as Shao Dan Yuan , Chen Zhi Hui as Master Liao rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Lynn Hung as Zhang Yong Cheng, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Miura, Yu-Hang To as Hu Wei

Plot : A semi-biographical judge of Yip Man, the primarily martial arts learn to inform the Chinese martial skill of Wing Chun. |


Run Time : 106 min

Country : Hong Kong

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Language : Cantonese | Mandarin | Japanese

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Company : Beijing ShengShi HuaRei Film Investment & Management Co.

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Tag Lines : The celebrated Kung Fu master of Bruce Lee.

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Invictus (2009)

Director : Clint Eastwood

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Genre : Biography, Drama, History, Sport

Cast : : , Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela , Matt Damon as François Pienaar , Tony Kgoroge as Jason Tshabalala , Patrick Mofokeng as Linga Moonsamy , Matt Stern as Hendrick Booyens , Julian Lewis Jones as Etienne Feyder , Adjoa Andoh as Brenda Mazibuko , Marguerite Wheatley as Nerine , Leleti Khumalo as Mary , Patrick Lyster as Mr. Pienaar , Penny Downie as Mrs. Pienaar , Sibongile Nojila as Eunice , Bonnie Henna as Zindzi , Shakes Myeko as Minister of Sport , Louis Minnaar as Springbok Coach

Plot : Nelson Mandela, inside his primarily time because the South African President, initiates a exclusive try to converge the apartheid-torn land: enlist the federal government rugby squad on a job to triumph the 1995 Rugby World Cup.


Run Time : 133 min

Country : USA

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Language : English

Filming Locations : Cape Town, South Africa

Company : Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia : All the rugby exercise were filmed at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park Stadium, where they passed through essentially been played. Much of the stadium has modified for the reason that 1995, thus James J. Murakami collected prolonged study to receive the venue encourage to the modus operandi it looked, let alone the worthwhile signage of the time. Computer graphics were shortly engaged to conclude the effect.

Goofs : Factual errors: In the movie, the Springboks jogged out onto the part sooner than the All Blacks inside the globe cup final. However, inside the factual 1995 Rugby World Cup final, both teams jogged out onto the part together.

Tag Lines : His people needed a leader. He gave them a champion.
He was a prisoner who became a president. To unite his country, he asked one man to do the impossible.

Plot Summary : The flick tells the inspirational truthful tale of how Nelson Mandela tied forces and the captain of South Africa’s rugby side to be of custom to congregate their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his countryside remains racially furthermore economically divided inside the wake of apartheid. Believing he may perhaps carry his folks united prepared the general terms of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s rugby side since they class their historic gush to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

<a href="/name/nm0541691/">Nelson Mandela</a>’s parades derive pleasure detention center in addition to his ascent to a democratically elected President of South Africa marks a deep-seated amend inside the country. This amend off from apartheid will not troth straightforward since any individual inside the country, then again Mandela has to comprehend how to galvanize the populace of the realm together. Because of his friendliness of the game, Mandela sites his healing in the back of the Springboks, the centralized rugby team. South Africa is hosting the 1995 Rugby World Cup, that individual the hardly rationale the Springboks are yet dealing inside the contest because its time on the sideline of globe rugby time has not arrived globe ranked. The Springboks were hitherto summed up the side of sallow South Africa, in addition to because such was denounced by Mandela while he was inside prison. But he completes whatsoever he may possibly to turn up the side of the full lot South Africa. He entails the healing of the Springboks in addition to its captain, <a href="/name/nm3565879/">Francois Pienaar</a>, to realize his unrealistic objective of the Springboks succeeding the World Cup, yet critical such rugby powerhouses the All-Blacks representing New Zealand. Mandela struggles to excite Pienaar to take by example, a lot of reminiscent of Mandela has himself. Beyond Mandela’s dream, his racially assorted protection side has the extra strain of protecting him at the Springboks’ parallels minute he sites himself inside possibly unprotectable situations.

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