The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

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Rating: R

Release Date: May 23, 2008

Running Time: 114 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Japanese, Mandarin and English

Country Of Origin: China

Country Of Origin: Australia

Country Of Origin: Germany

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Radha Mitchell, Guang Wen Li, David Wenham, Jin Shuyuan

director: Roger Spottiswoode

In war-torn 1930's China, a young English journalist, an American nurse and the leader of a Chinese partisan group who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60-orphaned, children leading them on an extraordinary journey, across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage.

So much for just reporting the news. This conventionally told but nonetheless heartfelt historical drama recounts the true-life Herculean efforts of a British journalist to save a school of Chinese orphans during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Barely remembered by his fellow countryman, but revered to this day by the Chinese, George Hogg was an Oxford-educated adventurer who led 60 war orphans on a 700-mile trek during the Japanese occupation of China to prevent them from falling into the…