Film fans who remember Ingrid Bergman as a orphan-saving Englishwoman in China during the Japanese occupation may experience a strong sense of deja vu: Like INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS, this sentimental adventure is loosely based on the true story of a Brit on Chinese soil who courageously risked everything to save a group of war's most innocent victims.
December, 1937. British newspaperman and recent Oxford grad George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has come to Shanghai in hopes of capturing the story the rest of the world is largely ignoring: The brutal occupation of China by the Japanese, particularly the near total destruction of the city of Nanjing. The Ja...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
125 mins