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Red Cliff (Chinese: 赤壁 Pinyin: Chìbì) 2008
The story of Red cliff, alternatively known as “The Battle of Red Cliff”, takes place in 208 AD in China during the Han Dynasty. Despite the presence of an emperor, Han Xiandi, China was then divided into many warring states. The ambitious Prime Minister Cao Cao, by using the Emperor as his puppet, waged war on a kingdom in the west, Xu, ruled by the emperor’s uncle, Liu Bei. Numerous battles of wits and forces, on land and on water, eventually culminated into the most famous battle in Chinese history, where two thousand ships were burned, and the course of China’s history was changed forever.
The film is directed by John Woo, and includes stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai(as Zhou Yu), Takeshi Kaneshiro(as Zhuge Liang), Zhang Fengyi(as Cao Cao), Chang Chen(Sun Quan), Hu Jun(Zhao Yun), Lin Chi-ling(as Xiao Qiao) and Zhao Wei(as Sun Shangxiang).
Up to now, box office of "Red Cliff" in mainland has exceeded 360 million yuan, far exceeding the previous box-office champion Chinese-language film "Curse of the Golden Flower" which made a record of 286 million yuan. The success of the film let people to see the bright future of Chinese film.
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