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Un film di Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Wai Man Yip.
Con Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei, Bao-ming Gu.
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Titolo originale Tau ming chong.
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Ratings: Kids+16,
durata 126 min.
- Cina, Hong Kong 2007.
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Using the Taiping Rebellion of 1860s China as his backdrop, director Peter Ho-Sun Chan has woven together an intimate story of men against a backdrop of history writ large.
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
"The Warlords," a sweeping saga set during the Taiping Rebellion of 1860s China, begins in silence. A field of broken, bloody bodies fills the screen, stiff like toy soldiers piled thick on a floor. Then a single face overtakes the space, a man lying among the dead; he is alive, but his eyes tell us that in a field of fallen comrades, life is not enough.
And so begins this paean to men in battle, bonds forged and broken, starring a troika of Asian stars -- Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro -- as blood brothers and Xu Jinglei as Lian, the enigmatic beauty with the power to wound far worse than knives. [...]
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