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The Eight Hundred: Directed by Guan Hu. With Zhizhong Huang, Junyi Zhang, Hao Ou, Xiaoguang Hu. In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Hu Guan
- 2020-08-28
The Eight Hundred (Chinese: 八佰) is a 2020 Chinese historical war drama film directed by and co-written by Guan Hu, and starring Huang Zhizhong, Oho Ou, Wang Qianyuan, Jiang Wu, Zhang Yi, Du Chun, Vision Wei, Li Chen, and Yu Haoming.
The Eight Hundred recounts a key moment in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War when 452 Chinese soldiers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan (Du Chun), are ordered to defend the fortress-like Sihang Warehouse against the much larger Japanese army.
Dec 4, 2020 · After her trip to China, Wong starred in three Paramount Studio “B” films, King of Chinatown (1939), Daughter of Shanghai (1937), Island of Lost Men (1939), the first two of which cast her in breakthrough roles as American professional women.
Apr 24, 2020 · Found between images of refugees and nurses, the photographs of women sewing clothes in 1937 Shanghai (here and here) are hardly the most obvious when discussing a global war. This seemingly banal activity is one that goes on in peacetime as well during conflicts.
Sep 2, 2020 · The blockbuster movie focuses on the Battle of Shanghai and the fierce four-day fighting between Chinese and Japanese forces at Sihang Warehouse in 1937. The film has raked in 2 billion yuan (US$293 million) in box office receipts since its release on August 21.
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