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    Back to 1942 received mixed reviews. It has a 40% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews with an average rating of 5.2/10. [6] Metacritic gave the film a score of 41/100 based on six reviews. [7] Xan Brooks of The Guardian wrote:

  2. Nov 30, 2012 · The fortunes of a well-off Chinese landlord (Zhang Guoli) fall to ruin, as a devastating famine holds the country in its grip in 1942.

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    • Guoli Zhang
    • Feng Xiao-Gang
    • History, Drama
  3. Back to 1942 Review Chinese epic illuminates a dark chapter in its WWII history. How on Earth could a government, its army and bureaucrats turn their backs while three million citizens starved to ...

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  4. Nov 21, 2012 · Feng Xiaogang’s latest historical epic, Back to 1942, presents a vast panorama of the Henan famine of 1942, at once benefiting and suffering from its sweeping historical canvas. As the Japanese Imperial Army enters its fifth year of battering away at military leader Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalist forces, the Henan province is in the ...

  5. Back to 1942 is a hard hitting and unrelentingly grim disaster movie playing through the eyes and experiences of its ensemble cast, switching between the three main stories of Fan, White and the Nationalist and provincial governments at a pace that cracks along, despite its 145 minutes length.

  6. Nov 12, 2012 · Back to 1942 (Yi Jiu Si Er): Film Review. Top box office director Feng Xiaogang depicts the 1942 famine in central China in a spectacular epic produced by the Huayi Brothers.

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  8. Nov 28, 2016 · Rating: 8/10. Ironic, big-budget drama about a real-life famine in WW2 China defies expectations. STORY. West Laozhuang village, Yanjin county, Henan province, north-central China, late 1942. Following a severe drought since the summer, Henan province is plagued by mass famine in the middle of the Sino-Japanese War.

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