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The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

黃石的孩子
R 125 minutes ZH Drama , War
War made them orphans, one man made them legends
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
George Hogg
Radha Mitchell
Radha Mitchell
Lee Pearson
Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-fat
Chen Hansheng
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh
Mrs. Wang
Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker
Andy Fisher
Anastasia Kolpakova
Anastasia Kolpakova
Duschka
Shane Briant
Shane Briant
Roger Appsley
David Wenham
David Wenham
Barnes
Zhou Bo
Zhou Bo
Second Brother
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Production crew

Zhao Xiaoding
Director of Photography
David Hirschfelder
Music
Geoff Lamb
Editor
Dominique Fortin
Editor
Lisa Lovaas
Costume Supervisor
Kym Barrett
Costume Design
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
Peter Loehr
Producer
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Official website: http://www.childrenofhuangshi.com/
Production companies: Australian Film Finance Corporation, Zero Fiction Film, Ming Productions, Bluewater Pictures, Cheerland Entertainment Organization, Hyde Park Entertainment, Rouge Entertainment Group, Sony Pictures Classics, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Filmstiftung NRW, Australian Film Commission, Zero West Filmproduktion, Pictorion Pictures
Production countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, United States of America
Budget: $40,000,000
Revenue: $7,785,317

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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