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The Flowers of War (Jin ling shi san chai)
| Rating: | R (for strong violence including a sexual assault, disturbing images, and brief strong language) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | January 20, 2012 |
| Running time: | 141 minutes |
| Cast: | Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi |
| Director: | Yimou Zhang |
| Distributor: | Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Row 1 Product |
Description: The film, set during the Japanese invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic Church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese.
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