Based on the true story of one of the greatest battles of WWII.
In 1937, eight hundred 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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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Wang QianyuanYang Guai
- Zhang YiOld Abacus
- Huang ZhizhongLao Hulu
- Jiang WuLao Tie
- Ou HaoDuan Wu
- Du ChunLieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan
- Vision WeiZhu Shengzhong
- Tang YixinYang Huimin
- Li JiuxiaoDao Zi
- Jerry LeeQi Jiaming
Crew
- Guan HuDirector
- Zhang XiaobeiWriter
- Zhao DonglingWriter
- Zhao NingyuWriter
- Cao YuDirector of Photography
- Rupert Gregson-WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Andrew KawczynskiOriginal Music Composer
- Tu YiranEditor
- He YongyiEditor
- Zhu WenjiuProducer
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