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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   2,914 votes
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Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Writers:
Jane Hawksley (writer)
James MacManus (writer)
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Release Date:
3 April 2008 (China) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Tagline:
War made them orphans, one man made them legends
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
Heke is a hero more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... George Hogg

Radha Mitchell ... Lee Pearson

Yun-Fat Chow ... Chen Hansheng

Michelle Yeoh ... Mrs. Wang
Guang Li ... Shi-Kai
Lin Ji ... Horse Rider
Matt Walker ... Andy Fisher
Anastasia Kolpakova ... Duschka
Ping Su ... Eddie Wei
Imai Hideaki ... Japanese Officer
Sciichiro Hashimoto ... Urbane Japanese Officer
Shinichi Takashima ... Hostile Kempetai Officer
Xing Mang ... Young Communist
Ruixiang Zhu ... Japanese Officer II
Yuelong Fang ... Rou Ding
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Children of the Silk Road (Australia)
Escape from Huang Shi (Singapore: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some disturbing and violent content.
Runtime:
125 min
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Trivia:
Marks the first official co-production between Australia and China. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
George Hogg: Shoot some hoops?
Andy Fisher: No thanks. I have to save my strength, I'm getting married on Tuesday.
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23 out of 32 people found the following comment useful:-
Heke is a hero, 12 May 2008
8/10
Author: avan ye from China

I watched this movie last Saturday, and here are some feelings of mine. "The children of Huangshi" brought me an vivid image of the reality during the pre-WWⅡ. George Hogg, also known as Heke was a courageous, insistent and responsible man. He treated the homeless orphans as ordinary innocent children while the Japanese enemy and the nationalists never showed any mercy to them. Children were victims of the wars. They lost their families, their childhood, and even their courage to live. Wars also raised the hatred in their mind, changing them into devils. In the movie, two echo scenes impressed me a lot: One is the photo of Shikai' family, the other is a photo of a Japanese soldier. Shikai saw his parents and his sister be killed atrociously by Japanese and since then he became dissociable and unreasonable and the only hope to him was the photo. When he got the chance to kill Japanese, he did it decidedly, only to find that a family photo holding in the soldier's hands. Heke tried to release the children's hatred and he wanted them to be normal children. At some aspect, he succeeded, because the children of Huangshi, e.g. Laosi, found his way back to be a happy child under Heke's education; however, the damage of the war was too huge to be cured. Most of the children were saved but not what they were used to be any more. Anyway, Heke is a great man. Although he is a foreigner, he is our national hero forever.

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