The Children of Huang Shi

The Children of Huang Shi

War made them orphans, one man made them legends

2008•2h 5m•6.7/10

DramaWar

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6.7/10(164)

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

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Production

Australian Film Finance Corporation, Zero Fiction Film, Ming Productions, Bluewater Pictures, Cheerland Entertainment Organization, Hyde Park Entertainment, Rouge Entertainment Group, Sony Pictures Classics, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Filmstiftung NRW, Australian Film Commission, Zero West Filmproduktion, Pictorion Pictures

Language

ZH

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

George Hogg

Radha Mitchell

Radha Mitchell

Lee Pearson

Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat

Chen Hansheng

Anastasia Kolpakova

Anastasia Kolpakova

Duschka

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Mrs. Wang

Zhou Bo

Zhou Bo

Second Brother

Guang Li

Shi-Kai

Ji Lin

Horse Rider

Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker

Andy Fisher

Takashima Shinichi

Takashima Shinichi

Hostile Kempetai Officer

Zhu Ruixiang

Zhu Ruixiang

Japanese Officer II

Shane Briant

Shane Briant

Roger Appsley

Jin Shuyuan

Jin Shuyuan

Lo San

David Wenham

David Wenham

Barnes

Hongbin Zhang

SSS Officer

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