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Watch this: 'The Children of Huang Shi'
nwsource.com –
2009-01-23
Rated R.Based on actual events and set in China during the brutal Japanese occupation of the 1930s and '40s, this film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as British journalist George Hogg. ... Full Article
By TOM LONG THE DETROIT NEWS Published: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Stiff, bland and at times unintentionally laughable, "The Children of Huang Shi" is a perfect example of what happens when badly cast actors meet a spiritless ... Full Article
(A) Veterans sometimes say combat survivors give off a glow that protects them like an invisible shield.Jonathan Rhys Meyers radiates that glow until the final reel of The Children of Huang Shi , a terrific, fact-inspired moral adventure. ... Full Article
Children of Huang Shi: B-
stltoday.com –
2008-06-27
George Hogg was an Oxford-educated photojournalist who documented the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s. In a northern province, he ran a school for war-orphaned boys. ... Full Article
The Children of HuangShi
lasvegasweekly.com –
2008-06-26
I can just hear the pitch to the producer: Its Schindlers List meets The Sound of Music . And, more or less, thats exactly how Spottiswoodes The Children of Huang Shi plays out, only without nearly the entertainment value of ... Full Article
Who will save 'The Children of Huang Shi'? George Hogg makes a heroic attempt
nwsource.com –
2008-06-19
Saved from certain execution by Chen (Chow Yun-Fat), a West Point-educated Chinese soldier with Communist sympathies, he's taken to an isolated orphanage filled with lost boys on the verge of going "Lord of the Flies" -- ostensibly to recover from... ... Full Article
Coming soon
newsday.com –
2008-06-13
Next Friday CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI ( Sony Pictures Classics ) Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a young English writer who arrives in Shanghai, China, just before the Japanese invade, and is wounded and sent to rest at an orphanage where ... Full Article
Interview: Director Roger Spottiswoode Captures Spirit of China's Past in 'The Children of Huang Shi'
hollywoodchicago.com –
2008-06-07
CHICAGO - The second Chinese/Japanese war, which was a 1937 prelude to the great conflict of World War II , is notable today mostly because modern China rose from its ashes. ... Full Article
The Children of Huang Shi
thestar.com –
2008-06-06
The Children of Huang Shi wastes no time in acquainting the viewer with the gruesome realities of 1937 war-torn China. Barely have we made the acquaintance of George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a footloose graduate of Oxford, hanging out in... ... Full Article
Exclusive Interview: Roger Spottiswoode for "The Children of Huang Shi"
darkhorizons.com –
2008-06-01
Director Roger Spottiswoode is not averse to taking risks as a filmmaker from "Shake Hands with the Devil" to the 1930s-set true story of "The Children of Huang Shi". ... Full Article