3 Movies Starring Wei Fan

City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-22

Languages:

Mandarin, English, Japanese, German

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (8011 Reviews)

Director:

Chuan Lu

Fullplot:

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

If You Are the One

If You Are the One

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-22

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

130 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1980 Reviews)

Director:

Xiaogang Feng

Cast:

Writer:

Xiaogang Feng (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Qin Fen, a funny, honest, single inventor, met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They traveled to Hokkaido, tried to help Smiley cure her pain in heart, and both of them gradually found their true love and life redemption during the journey.

Back to 1942

Back to 1942

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-29

Languages:

Mandarin, English, Japanese

Countries:

China

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (2175 Reviews)

Director:

Xiaogang Feng

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Zhenyun Liu (novel)

Zhenyun Liu

Fullplot:

A famine with multiple contributing factors and devastating effects during the Second Sino-Japanese war is chronicled from the official perspective of reporters, generals, politicians and real families whose lives were forever altered by drastic measures they were forced to take in order to survive. Alternately ignoring the dire nature of the famine and its subsequent exodus of millions of people from the Hunen province, and minimizing its devastation to the outside world, the Chinese Nationalist government of the time is one which seems to be over burdened by ongoing war efforts and corruption in the distribution of relief supplies. Policy and private life are worlds apart in stopping the devastation shown through the portrayals of those who lived to tell the tale and their accounts of those who were not so lucky, of whom there were many (3 million.) This is a true story based upon Liu Zhenyun's novel "Remembering 1942," Zhenyun himself is the descendant of a survivor of the 1942 famine and his family story is poignantly portrayed--showing heroism, self sacrifice, terrible misfortune and ultimate survival of the lucky few.

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