Movie
The Chinese Widow
Overview
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
Details
- Release date
- 2017-11-10
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, History, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ROC Pictures
- Country
- China
- Original language
- ZH
Cast
- Liu Yifei as Ying
- Emile Hirsch as Jack Turner
- Fangcong Li as Niuniu
- Kevin Yan as Kai
- Yu Shaoqun as Jun
- Vincent Riotta as Jimmy Doolittle
- Tsukagoshi Hirotaka as Shimamoto
- Gallen Lo Ka-Leung as Captain Hsu
- Shu Yaoxuan
- Gong Hanlin as Ying's father-in-law
- Tiankuo Gong as Lieutenant Sun
- Cary Woodworth as Mac
Crew
- Bille August - Director
- Greg Latter - Writer
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