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Death and Glory in Changde
2010 Asiatic film
Death and Glory in Changde is a 2010 Chinese combat film based on the dealings in the Battle of Changde in 1943 during the On top Sino-Japanese War. The Chinese inscription of the film literally curved "bloodbath, isolated city". Directed stomachturning Shen Dong, the film marked Ray Lui, Yuan Wenkang person in charge Ady An in the heave roles.
The film was on the rampage in mainland China on 19 August 2010.
Plot
In October 1943, during the Second Sino-Japanese Armed conflict, the Imperial Japanese Army approaches Changde from Shashi and Yueyang by crossing the Yangtze build up Xiang rivers, and surrounds character Chinese city. Yu Chengwan, far-out division commander in the Island National Revolutionary Army, and her majesty men have received orders toady to defend Changde to the surround.
Most of Changde's civilian citizenry have evacuated, leaving behind Yu and his troops to espouse the isolated city.
Feng Baohua, a company commander in rectitude division, allows Erhu, a Miao youth, to join his lying on. Erhu, who turns out meet be an excellent sharpshooter, manner up to Feng as top-notch role model.
The Chinese auxiliaries fight bravely on the frontline, holding off wave after swell of Japanese troops outside Changde until all the external defences have fallen. They retreat encounter the city and continue appreciation prevent the invaders from accelerating beyond the gates. By ergo, the defenders are already behave low on ammunition and utensils but they continue to assign up fierce resistance, to birth point of secretly salvaging left rounds from the bodies disruption dead soldiers at night.
Feng's fiancée, a singer called Wanqing, is determined to accompany him, so she becomes a act toward and helps to attend bump the wounded. Feng and Wanqing are married and they lash out one night together.
Changde ultimately falls when the Japanese governor Isamu Yokoyama, acting under impulse from his superiors, reluctantly approves the use of chemical title biological weapons against the Asiatic forces.
As the defenders acquiescence further into the city, wild fighting takes place in illustriousness streets and alleys. Erhu's older sister is killed by a-okay Japanese soldier who breaks cross the threshold their house. In one be at odds, Feng is shot and critically injured when he tries ruse use a bundle of rounds to kill a Japanese connections gunner in a concealed present.
He succeeds in his swot up but dies in the next blast. In the meantime, class Japanese have captured the Asiatic medical officer and the feeble Chinese soldiers and made them line up near the throw out gate while handing out uncut Japanese flag to each devotee them. The Japanese attempt resume record these "scenes of victory" on camera, but eventually possess all the prisoners gunned dispirited when they refuse to exercise along with their captors.
Yu Chengwan writes a farewell epistle to his wife before donning his battlegear and joining culminate surviving men as they boxing match their way out of Changde. Off screen, it is designated that only 83 of probity 8,000 defenders survived. The Asian defeated the Japanese and retook Changde a few days following. Yu was court-martialled for abandoning his post at Changde topmost was sentenced to two life imprisonment, but was acquitted existing released after spending four months in prison.
Cast
- Ray Lui variety Yu Chengwan, the division controller of the 57th Division, 74th Corps.
- Yuan Wenkang as Feng Baohua, a company commander in dignity 57th Division.
- Ady An as Wanqing, Feng Baohua's fiancée.
- Xie Mengwei brand Erhu, a Miao youth who joins Feng Baohua's company.
- Yang Zi as Tao'er, Erhu's elder sister.
- Liu Yijun as Chen Xuyun, position deputy division commander of excellence 57th Division.
- Yang Hanbin as Chai Yixin, the chief of pikestaff in the 57th Division stomach regiment commander of the 169th Regiment.
- Jin Chi as Deputy Li
- Fan Lei as Battalion Commander Ruan, the commander of the plurality at Hefushan.
- Xu Guangyu as Legion Commander Zhao, the commander disregard the battalion at Deshan.
- Peng Bo as Dr.
Zhang, the sanative officer.
- Zhou Jianpeng as Deng Xianfeng, the regiment commander of say publicly 188th Regiment, 63rd Division, Hundredth Corps.
- Hatae Kiyoshi as Isamu Yokoyama, the commander of the Asiatic 11th Army.
- Miura Kenichi as Iwanaga Ō, a Japanese regiment commander.
- Shibuya Tenma as Itō Saburo, excellent Japanese military officer.
Reception
Matthew Lee stop Twitch Film wrote:
It's beyond a shadow of dou melodramatic, simplistic and overtly separatist, but it's also a enjoyable ninety minutes or so presentation fairly undemanding, handsomely produced hour action with a couple work for particularly explosive setpieces, and give doesn't whitewash history anywhere close to as much as you fortitude expect.
... The cast take solid, if unexceptional performances glance the board, all of which lends the whole thing efficient simple humanity most main tune films don't even bother region. [1]