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Adapted from the novel by renowned writer Yan Geling, The Flowers of War tells a deeply affecting story set during the tragic Nanjing Massacre in 1937, when the then-capital of China was brutally torn apart by the Japanese Imperial Army. One of the few places yet to be taken by the invaders is a Catholic cathedral, where a group of teenaged convent schoolgirls resides. Also seeking shelter there is an American mortician named John Miller (Christian Bale), followed by fourteen courtesans from the local brothel led by Yumo (Ni Ni), as well as Chinese soldier Li (Tong Dawei) and his wounded comrade. Their temporary and uneasy peace in the sacred sanctuary is soon shattered by the arrival of the Japanese army. Under the most harrowing circumstances, it's the desperate low-lives who rise to the occasion in an extraordinary display of bravery...
Hong Kong Version DVD comes with making-of, trailers, and photo gallery.
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Product Title: | The Flowers Of War (2011) (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) 金陵十三釵 (2011) (DVD) (香港版) 金陵十三钗 (2011) (DVD) (香港版) 金陵十三釵 (2011) (DVD) (香港版) The Flowers Of War (2011) (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) |
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Also known as: | 13 Women of Nanjing / The Thirteen Women of Jinling / 13 Flowers of Nanjing / Nanjing Heroes / Heroes of Nanking / 13 Women of Jinling 13 Women of Nanjing / The Thirteen Women of Jinling / 13 Flowers of Nanjing / Nanjing Heroes / Heroes of Nanking / 13 Women of Jinling 13 Women of Nanjing / The Thirteen Women of Jinling / 13 Flowers of Nanjing / Nanjing Heroes / Heroes of Nanking / 13 Women of Jinling 13 Women of Nanjing / The Thirteen Women of Jinling / 13 Flowers of Nanjing / Nanjing Heroes / Heroes of Nanking / 13 Women of Jinling 13 Women of Nanjing / The Thirteen Women of Jinling / 13 Flowers of Nanjing / Nanjing Heroes / Heroes of Nanking / 13 Women of Jinling |
Artist Name(s): | Christian Bale (Actor) | Watabe Atsuro (Actor) | Paul Schneider (Actor) | Tong Da Wei (Actor) | Deng Li (Actor) | Bai Xue (Actor) | Cao Ke Fan (Actor) | Gu Xuan (Actor) | Kobayashi Shigeo (Actor) | Zhang Xin Yi (Actor) | Huang Tian Yuan (Actor) | Han Xi Ting (Actor) | Zhang Dou Dou (Actor) | Yuan Yang Chun Zi (Actor) | Sun Jia (Actor) | Li Yue-Min (Actor) | Yamanaka Takashi (Actor) | Li Chun (Actor) | Zhou Meng Qiao (Actor) | Qian Liu Yin (Actor) | Zhou Yu (Actor) | Su Xiao Mei (Actor) | Ni Ni (Actor) 基斯頓 比爾 (Actor) | 渡部篤郎 (Actor) | Paul Schneider (Actor) | 佟 大為 (Actor) | 鄧莉 (Actor) | 白雪 (Actor) | 曹可凡 (Actor) | 顧璇 (Actor) | 小林成男 (Actor) | 張 歆怡 (Actor) | 黃 天元 (Actor) | 韓 熙庭 (Actor) | 張 逗逗 (Actor) | 袁楊純子 (Actor) | 孫 佳 (Actor) | 李 玥敏 (Actor) | 山中崇 (Actor) | 李 純 (Actor) | 周 夢喬 (Actor) | 錢 柳吟 (Actor) | 周 羽 (Actor) | 蘇 小妹 (Actor) | 倪妮 (Actor) 基斯顿 比尔 (Actor) | 渡部笃郎 (Actor) | Paul Schneider (Actor) | 佟 大为 (Actor) | 邓莉 (Actor) | 白雪 (Actor) | 曹可凡 (Actor) | 顾璇 (Actor) | 小林成男 (Actor) | 张 歆怡 (Actor) | 黄 天元 (Actor) | 韩 熙庭 (Actor) | 张 逗逗 (Actor) | 袁杨纯子 (Actor) | 孙 佳 (Actor) | 李 玥敏 (Actor) | 山中崇 (Actor) | 李 纯 (Actor) | 周 梦乔 (Actor) | 钱 柳吟 (Actor) | 周 羽 (Actor) | 苏 小妹 (Actor) | 倪妮 (Actor) Christian Bale (Actor) | 渡部篤郎 (Actor) | Paul Schneider (Actor) | 佟大為 (トン・ダーウェイ) (Actor) | Deng Li (Actor) | Bai Xue (Actor) | Cao Ke Fan (Actor) | Gu Xuan (Actor) | 小林成男 (Actor) | Zhang Xin Yi (Actor) | Huang Tian Yuan (Actor) | Han Xi Ting (Actor) | Zhang Dou Dou (Actor) | Yuan Yang Chun Zi (Actor) | Sun Jia (Actor) | Li Yue-Min (Actor) | Yamanaka Takashi (Actor) | Li Chun (Actor) | Zhou Meng Qiao (Actor) | Qian Liu Yin (Actor) | Zhou Yu (Actor) | Su Xiao Mei (Actor) | 倪妮 (ニー・ニー) (Actor) 크리스찬 베일 (Actor) | Watabe Atsuro (Actor) | Paul Schneider (Actor) | Tong Da Wei (Actor) | Deng Li (Actor) | Bai Xue (Actor) | Cao Ke Fan (Actor) | Gu Xuan (Actor) | Kobayashi Shigeo (Actor) | Zhang Xin Yi (Actor) | Huang Tian Yuan (Actor) | Han Xi Ting (Actor) | Zhang Dou Dou (Actor) | Yuan Yang Chun Zi (Actor) | Sun Jia (Actor) | Li Yue-Min (Actor) | Yamanaka Takashi (Actor) | Li Chun (Actor) | Zhou Meng Qiao (Actor) | Qian Liu Yin (Actor) | Zhou Yu (Actor) | Su Xiao Mei (Actor) | Ni Ni (Actor) |
Director: | Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 张艺谋 張藝謀(チャン・イーモウ) 장이모우 |
Release Date: | 2012-05-18 |
Language: | Original Soundtrack |
Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
Place of Origin: | China |
Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.78 : 1, Widescreen |
Sound Information: | DTS Digital Surround, Dolby Digital EX(TM) / THX Surround EX(TM) |
Disc Format(s): | DVD, DVD-9 |
Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
Rating: | IIB |
Duration: | 146 (mins) |
Publisher: | Edko Films Ltd. (HK) |
Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1030849824 |
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- Making Of
- Trailer 1
- Trailer 2
- Photo Gallery
Director: Zhang Yi-Mou
In 1937, Nanking stands at the forefront of a war. As the invading Japanese Imperial Army overruns China¡¦s capital city, desperate civilians seek refuge behind the nominally protective walls of a western cathedral. Here, John Miller (CHRISTIAN BALE), an American trapped amidst the chaos of battle and the ensuing occupation ,takes shelter, joined by a group of innocent schoolgirls and thirteen courtesans, equally determined to escape the horrors taking place outside the church walls. Amidst the violence and persecution wrought by the Japanese army, this seemingly disparate group will fight to survice, ultimately rising their lives for the sake of everyone. Facing unimaginable evil, their acy of sacrifice will prove that fate has a way of bringing the most unlikely heroes together.
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Asian Film Awards 2012
- Best Film Nomination
- Best Director Nomination, Zhang Yimou
- Best Newcomer Winner, Ni Ni
- Best Screenwriter Nomination
- Best Composer Nomination
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Professional Review of "The Flowers Of War (2011) (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)"
The Flowers of War has been one of the most hyped Chinese films for some time, and with good reason. Boasting a budget of around US$100 million, marking it as the most expensive Chinese production to date, the film sees the return of Hero helmer Zhang Yimou to the blockbuster form, following up his quieter Under the Hawthorn Tree and A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop with a historical World War II drama epic. Flowers is also notable for being one of the very few Asian films to feature a proper, Oscar-winning western actor in a lead role, in this case Christian Bale, star of the extremely popular Dark Knight series. Unsurprisingly, this led to a fair amount of international interest, and the high profile film has gone down well with audiences and critics around the world, much more so than other recent commercial Chinese efforts, even garnering a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the Golden Globe Awards.
Based on a novel by author Yan Geling, the film is set against a backdrop of the infamous 1937 Nanjing Massacre during the Japanese invasion of China, following Bale as John Miller, a mortician hired to bury a priest at the city's Winchester Cathedral. Arriving to find he is no longer needed, the drunk Miller nevertheless demands to be paid, and plans to stay the night before leaving in the morning, ignoring the pleas of altar boy George (Huang Tianyuan) to rescue the teenage convent school girls hiding there. On the same day, a group of courtesans from the local brothel also arrive seeking shelter, including the beautiful Yu Mo (newcomer Ni Ni), who tries to seduce him and solicit his help in getting them all out of the city. Meanwhile, with only a lone Chinese soldier, Major Li (Tong Dawei, Treasure Inn) protecting the cathedral, the Japanese army turn up, the apparently cultured Colonel Hasegawa (Watabe Atsuro, Zebraman) asking to hear the girls sing. Kicking off with an intense, Saving Private Ryan style battle scene, filled with dusty destruction and soldiers being bloodily cut down by bullets, it's immediately clear that The Flowers of War is a major departure for Zhang Yimou from his last couple of films. Zhang though is no stranger to bombastic material, and he handles the action well, before the film shifts gears and settles into following Bale, the girls and the prostitutes in the cathedral. The film does bear the unmistakable mark of his direction throughout, with some sumptuous visuals and a gorgeous use of colours. Zhang uses this to focus on contrasts, between the bright stained glass windows and the garishly beautiful clothes of the women, and the grey ruin of the city outside, the film featuring many of his usual slow motion close-ups and near-fetishisation of details. The film's visuals also make for a fair amount of obvious, though effective symbolism, particularly in its frequent overlaying of the Japanese Imperial flag and that of the Red Cross, and this does lend it a certain artistry. Though at times this results in a rather odd mix, the film switching between being highly stylised and gruesomely gritty, overall the approach works well, Zhang's penchant for the grandiose being tempered enough to fit the material and to make for compelling viewing. Crucially, the film also sees Zhang improving somewhat as a storyteller, an area in which past outings such as House of Flying Daggers have seen him struggle. Primarily a character piece at heart, the film benefits from a satisfying script from original novelist Yan Geling and Liu Heng, which wisely never puts too much focus on Bale's westerner, despite the obvious temptation to use him as an easy way into the story for international audiences. Narrated by one of the young girls called Shu (Zhang Xinyi), the film is well structured, and divides its time between its various groups, gradually and rewardingly exploring their differences and growing bonds. With themes of redemption and sacrifice top of the menu, the film is unsurprisingly hard going and depressing at times, though is thankfully moving in heartfelt rather than overly melodramatic fashion and never strives too hard to hammer home its outrage and sadness. While it never manages the powerful depth and subtlety of Lu Chuan's 2009 masterpiece City Of Life And Death, being content to demonise its Japanese villains, it does at least shy away from the kind of nationalism or propagandist rhetoric that would be detracted from the power of its human story. The presence of Bale gives the film a definite boost, at least in comparison to most other Asian productions which feature western "actors" who appear to have been dragged in off the street. Anchoring, though not overwhelming the film with a decent performance, he successfully manages to make Miller a convincing and eventually likeable figure, and though his journey from greedy drunk to father figure is entirely predictable, it still holds the interest. Zhang again shows himself a director very comfortable working with women, and the film largely belongs to its female characters, in particular to up and coming actress Ni Ni, who does very well as Yo Mo, making her far more than eastern eye candy exoticism, her relationship with Miller emerging as genuine and touching. While the supporting cast largely remain in the background, most of the actresses are suitably sympathetic, and both Tong Dawei and Watabe Atsuro are perfectly respectable in their roles. This all adds up to make The Flowers of War one of the best Chinese wartime epics of recent years, and a solid return to blockbuster film making for Zhang Yimou. Though a bit long at nearly two and a half hours, it's a powerful and harrowing piece of cinema, and whilst not adding much to what has already been said in other films, it's well made, written and acted. by James Mudge - BeyondHollywood.com |
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December 12, 2014
Far-fetched, poor...and plagiarised?
Yes beautifully shot in many ways, but mostly pretty poor.
Sorry James Mudge, BUT... The story-line of Christian Bale being an American mortician roaming seemingly unconcerned around 1937 war-torn Nanking looking for a priest's corpse to bury while the city is being engulfed, raped and destroyed all around him with 200,000 other corpses strewn around that also need burying I found quite absurd. Christian Bale's acting was miserable and mediocre at best. The scene with him hiding in a steel boiler with 2 terrified schoolgirls and him babbling in English, laughing and making stupid jokes with the Japanese all around and searching for them was ridiculous. His lines are lame and he looks like he's acting half-heartedly in a bad school play. From a greedy, drunken idiot unwashed mortician he becomes a scrubbed priest, a saint and a hero in one instant. Hallelujah! Last, using his profound mortician skills he makeovers a bunch of hookers into 14 year old schoolgirls who easily fool the Japanese, making idiots of the Japanese High command who never pursue him: Ezy-pezy, Japanezy! Please!! And why did we need an unbelievable Christian Bale at all in this unbelievable movie? For the American audience, of course. If all this nonsense is not enough, the story itself seems to be plagiarised from Pearl S. Buck's book, "Dragon Seed, China at War" written about 1942. Quote:"In one chapter, Buck describes Chinese girls - students and prostitutes - hiding in a missionary controlled school. When Japanese soldiers demand girls, the prostitutes offer themselves to save the young student girls."... Did you acknowledge Pearl Buck, Zhang Yimou? One star for this alone! Two far better films on the subject is the mostly factual 'Escape From Huang Shi', aka 'The Children of Huang Shi', and the amazing TRUE story 'QIXIA TEMPLE 1937', if you can find it. No need for American morticians in this one. |
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May 27, 2012
REALLY GOOD! AND REALLY SAD!
One of the best film this year! It is really sad. It's a story you won't forget at all!
The story is set in during the Nanjing Massacre. A group of young chinese convent girls runs away from the Japanese soldiers and were luckily safe back inside their church. A random American mortician guy comes by to the church to bury their dead Father. Another group of prostitutes comes inside the church too. All of them are stuck in the church and wants to leave Nanjing as possible, but with Japanese soldiers roaming around the city, it was impossible for them. Some girls were shot down, some girls were about to be used by the horrible Japanese soldiers, two woman did got used, and many of them had to sacrifice themselves during the movie and in the end. The main people who were able to help the young convent girls were the American guy (better prefer as westerners in the film) & the prostitutes. Luckily, the American guy and the young convent girls were saved, except for the others because they had to sacrifice themselves. A sad tragic, yet happy ending too. The movie will make you emotional, sad, and cry for all of the characters in the movie. It makes you feel like you're in that moment with all of the people in that city. It must of been really scary. What a sad tragic the Chinese people in Nanjing had to go through. The soundtrack for this movie was also really good too and bends in with the movie a lot. Recommend this movie a lot! |
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