The Flowers of War Trailer, Jin líng shí san chai Trailer. Yimou Zhang‘s The Flowers of War / Jin líng shí san chai (2011) movie trailer stars Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, and Shigeo Kobayashi. The Flowers of War‘s plot synopsis: Based on a historical novel by Yan Geling, and shot with a mixture of Chinese and English dialogue (and some Japanese), the film has Bale playing “John Haufman, a salty mortician who apparently has come to town to bury the priest of a cathedral in Nanking. The cathedral also has a school for girls, and with war waging all around and the priest dead, John dons the priests’ vestments and works out a temporary reprieve from the rampaging Japanese soldiers…’The Flowers Of War’ focuses on the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, when thousands of inhabitants of the then-capital Nanjing were murdered by invading Japanese troops.”
This is a much better presentation...
This is a much better presentation...
- 12/10/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Though it doesn’t yet have overseas distribution, Zhang Yimou’s latest, war epic The Flowers Of War, is already being entered by China as its submission to the foreign-language Oscar category. Now the trailer has arrived online and can be watched below.Christian Bale stars as missionary John Haufman, who is caught up in the chaos in Nanking as the Japanese Imperial Army overran the Chinese capital city in 1937.Haufman helped a group of schoolgirls and prostitutes to escape the invading forces, at a time when many of them were being killed or captured to be used as escorts for the troops.Liu Heng adapted the script from Yan Geling’s novel 13 Flowers Of Nanjing, and the film also stars Paul Schneider and Shigeo Kobayashi. From the looks of the final result, Zhang certainly didn’t skimp on the visuals, and with Bale providing a solid core, this is...
- 10/21/2011
- EmpireOnline
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