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Release Date: 2008 Cast: Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Guang Li, Anastasia Kolpakova, Yuelong Fang, Shinichi Takashima, Imai Hideaki, Ping Su, David Wenham, Lin Ji, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sciichiro Hashimoto ...MORE
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Guang Li, Anastasia Kolpakova, Yuelong Fang, Shinichi Takashima, Imai Hideaki, Ping Su, David Wenham, Lin Ji, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Michelle Yeoh ...LESS
Categories: Movies, World cinema, Docudrama, Period piece, War film, Adventure Drama, Chinese Movies 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. Arriving... 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. Arriving in Nanjing, Hogg witnesses and photographs the poverty, ruins, and corpses on the streets. He proceeds to write a daily journal about his findings when he is interupted by the sounds from outside. Upon peering outside the window, Hogg witnesses Japanese soldiers round up Chinese refugees and proceed to massacre the group. He anxiously takes photos of this event by the window. Later on at night,Hogg is captured by the Japanese while photographing them committing atrocities. He is about to be executed when Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-fat), a Chinese communist resistance fighter, saves him. While hiding in the LESS
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