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The Flowers of War (2011)

Name: The Flowers of War
Director: Zhang Yimou
Genre: romance film, historical film, war drama
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 7.5

The Flowers of War is a 2011 historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi and Cao Kefan. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film is based on a novella by Geling Yan, 13 Flowers of Nanjing, inspired by the diary of Minnie Vautrin. The story is set in Nanjing, China, during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in the Second…

Directed by Zhang Yimou · Shot by Zhao Xiaoding · Music by Qigang Chen · 146 min

Behind the scenes

The Flowers of War - 'Yu Mo (Ni Ni) describes her past to John Miller (Christian Bale)' — Lionsgate Canada · 2 min

Elsewhere

More by Zhang Yimou

Red Sorghum — 1988
Codename Cougar — 1989
Ju Dou — 1990
Raise the Red Lantern — 1991
The Story of Qiu Ju — 1992
To Live — 1994
Lumière and Company — 1995
Shanghai Triad — 1995
Keep Cool — 1997
The Road Home — 1999
Not One Less — 2000
Happy Times — 2000
Hero — 2002
House of Flying Daggers — 2004
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles — 2005
Curse of the Golden Flower — 2006
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
A Simple Noodle Story — 2009
Under the Hawthorn Tree — 2010
Coming Home — 2014
Yang Guifei — 2015
The Great Wall — 2016
Shadow — 2018
One Second — 2019
Cliff Walkers — 2020
Sharpshooter — 2021
Under the Light — 2023
Full River Red — 2023
Article 20 — 2024
Scare Out — 2026

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