Movie
The Children of Huang Shi
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2008-04-03
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Status
- Released
- 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
- Country
- Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, United States of America
- Original language
- ZH
Cast
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg
- Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson
- Chow Yun-Fat as Chen Hansheng
- Anastasia Kolpakova as Duschka
- Michelle Yeoh as Mrs. Wang
- Zhou Bo as Second Brother
- Guang Li as Shi-Kai
- Ji Lin as Horse Rider
- Matthew Walker as Andy Fisher
- Takashima Shinichi as Hostile Kempetai Officer
- Zhu Ruixiang as Japanese Officer II
- Shane Briant as Roger Appsley
Crew
- Roger Spottiswoode - Director
- Simon van der Borgh - Writer
- Jane Hawksley - Writer
- James MacManus - Writer
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