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The Chinese Widow
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.
2017 · Directed by Bille August · 97 min · Drama · Romance · History · War · 9 frames
Crew
- Written by: Greg Latter
- Cinematography: Filip Zumbrunn
- Edited by: Gerd Tjur
- Produced by: Peng Sun
Cast
- Liu Yifei as Ying
- Emile Hirsch as Jack Turner
- Fangcong Li as Niuniu
- Kevin Yan Yikuan 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
Production
- Country: China
- Language: Mandarin, English
- Studios: ROC Pictures
- Themes: sacrifice, village life, world war ii, based on true story, barbaric enemy
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