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Title: A Stultifying and Stupefying Experience
Review: Be forewarned that this is not a documentrary. To the contrary, it is a slow, static and imponderable foreign-language film containing minimal dialogue, wooden acting and a paucity of action. Boils down to a barely watchable one-man show most notable for its lenghty pauses, odd facial mannerisms and endless ritual bowings. To add to the misery, the subtitles disappear whenever English is spoken, which hampers the accessibity of hearing impaired viewers. This is is doubly unfortunate, since the "Emperor's" spoken English is broken and barely comprehensible--even to people that can hear perfectly.
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