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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Yuelong Fang, Michelle Yeoh, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Ping Su, Guang Li, Chow Yun-Fat, David Wenham, Anastasia Kolpakova, Shinichi Takashima, Imai Hideaki, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell ...MORE
Cast: Yuelong Fang, Michelle Yeoh, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Ping Su, Guang Li, Chow Yun-Fat, David Wenham, Anastasia Kolpakova, Shinichi Takashima, Imai Hideaki, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Lin Ji ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, Period Piece, World Cinema, Docudrama, Drama Film, War Film
The Children of Huang Shi (Chinese: 黄石的孩子; working title: The Bitter Sea, also known as Escape from Huang Shi and Children of the Silk Road) is a Chinese 2008 film. The film centres on the story of George Hogg and the sixty orphans that he led across China in an effort to save them from conscription during the Second Sino-Japanese war.
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a young British journalist from Hertfordshire in England. In 1938, during the early days of the Japanese occupation of China, he sneaks into Nanjing, China, by pretending to be a Red Cross aid worker. Hogg is... MORE
The Children of Huang Shi (Chinese: 黄石的孩子; working title: The Bitter Sea, also known as Escape from Huang Shi and Children of the Silk Road) is a Chinese 2008 film. The film centres on the story of George Hogg and the sixty orphans that he led across China in an effort to save them from conscription during the Second Sino-Japanese war.
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a young British journalist from Hertfordshire in England. In 1938, during the early days of the Japanese occupation of China, he sneaks into Nanjing, China, by pretending to be a Red Cross aid worker. Hogg is captured by the Japanese while photographing them committing atrocities and is about to be executed when Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-fat), a Chinese communist resistance fighter, saves him. While hiding in the rubble with his new allies, Hogg witnesses the execution of two of his colleagues by the Japanese. Overwhelmed by shock, he inadvertently reveals their presence. A firefight ensues, and Hogg is wounded. While convalescing, he is sent to an orphanage with 60 boys in Huangshi to help Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell), the American nurse who runs it. Soon after his arrival, the boys savagely attack Hogg with LESS
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