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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 Battle of Shanghai has been described as both the last battle of World War I and the first of World War II. This revealing film recounts the events that ...
- 56 min
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- DiBond Documentaries
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Dec 28, 2018 · In a series of remarkable color films, the 1937 Japanese invasion of Shanghai is captured in stark detail. It marked a rising wave of Japanese imperialist am...
- 2 min
- 243.1K
- Smithsonian Channel
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. Slowly, the defenders' numbers are whittled down while repelling ...
Budget. $80 million [1] Box office. $461.4 million. 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 film is based on real life events: the defense of ...
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After being considered only for the secondary female role in 1937's The Good Earth (the lead was played by Luise Rainer in yellowface), Wong found more depth in the role of Lan Ying Lin in Daughter of Shanghai. Often cast as a concubine or “dragon lady,” here she played a gallery owner turned “lady detective” hunting down a European smuggler alongside detective Kim Lee, played by ...