Jin líng shí san chai (2011)

Director:

Yimou Zhang

Writers:

Heng Liu (screenplay)
Geling Yan (novel)

Release Date:

16 December 2011 (China)

Genre:

Drama | History

Plot:

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Christian Bale	...	John Miller
Paul Schneider	...	Terry
Ni Ni	...	Yu Mo
Xinyi Zhang	...	Shujuan Meng
Tong Dawei	...	Major Li
Atsurô Watabe	...	Colonel Hasegawa
Shawn Dou
Yuan Nie
Shigeo Kobayashi	...	Lt. Kato
Tianyuan Huang	...	George
Kefan Cao	...	Mr. Meng
Takashi Yamanaka
Bai Xue
Hai-Bo Huang
Junichi Kajioka	...	Japanese Machinegun Soldier (uncredited)

Directed by
Yimou Zhang

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Heng Liu		screenplay
Geling Yan		novel

Produced by
Chaoying Deng	....	executive producer
William Kong	....	executive producer
David Linde	....	executive producer
Leo Shi Young	....	executive producer
Weiping Zhang	....	producer

Original Music by
Qigang Chen

Cinematography by
Xiaoding Zhao		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Peicong Meng

Production Design by
Yohei Taneda

Set Decoration by
Yoshihito Akatsuka

Costume Design by
William Chang
Graciela Mazón

Makeup Department
Xiaohai Yang	....	key makeup artist

Art Department
Yingzhang Fu	....	set designer
Cosmin Sarbulescu	....	digital matte painter

Sound Department
James Ashton	....	dialogue editor
James Ashton	....	sound re-recording mixer
Steve Burgess	....	sound re-recording mixer
Steve Burgess	....	supervising sound editor
Huijun Cao	....	boom operator
Hao Gang	....	sound recordist
Chris Goodes	....	sound effects editor
Wei He	....	sound re-recording mixer
Zheng 'Joe' Huang	....	foley editor
Zheng 'Joe' Huang	....	sound effects editor
Hongrui Ji	....	sound effects editor
Lian Luan	....	sound recordist
Robert Mackenzie	....	sound effects editor
Bingyang Mao	....	boom operator
Xu Miao	....	foley artist
Michael Miller	....	adr mixer
Roger Savage	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jing Tao	....	sound mixer
Jing Tao	....	supervising sound editor
Yinan Tu	....	sound effects editor
Mario Vaccaro	....	foley artist
Baiyang Wang	....	dialogue editor
Lizhong Wang	....	boom operator
Wei Wang	....	foley editor
Jing Xiao	....	sound mixer
Yanchao Yang	....	foley editor
Tian Yong	....	sound effects editor
Yijing Zhang	....	dialogue editor
Zhigang Zhang	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
Wesley Barnard	....	special effects
Genevieve Bevan-John	....	special effects technician
Bruce Bright	....	senior special effects technician
Jabin Dickins	....	senior special effects technician
Rob Heggie	....	on-set supervisor
Jim Leng	....	senior special effects technician
Simon Quinn	....	senior technician
Andy Williams	....	supervising effects tech: Darkside Effects

Visual Effects by
Nicolas Chavigny	....	matte painter
Nicolae-Gheorghe Cojocaru	....	visual effects artist
Adrian Costea	....	lead matchmove
Nick Hsieh	....	compositing supervisor: Base FX
Yanming Jiang	....	visual effects producer
Peng Ke	....	on set and second visual effects supervisor
Felix Lepadatu	....	visual effects supervisor
Giuseppe Motta	....	cg supervisor
Michael Nikitin	....	compositor
Claudiu Olaru	....	matchmover
George Palcut	....	digital compositor
Gu Pinghu	....	visual effects producer
Yu Qian	....	layout & matchmove lead
Alexandru Ion Radu	....	digital compositor
Alexandru Ion Radu	....	visual effects production manager
Julien Record	....	digital compositor
Paulina Rodriguez Lemus	....	digital artist
Aurelian Vulpasu	....	visual effects producer
Aurelian Vulpasu	....	visual effects production manager
Mike Wallner	....	fx artist
Joss Williams	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Fatih Ugurlu	....	stunt double: Christian Bale

Camera and Electrical Department
Raymond Lam	....	camera operator
Raymond Lam	....	steadicam operator

Casting Department
Eriko Miyagawa	....	casting

Editorial Department
Andre Coutu	....	post-production coordinator
Kevin Downer	....	assistant digital intermediate editor

Music Department
Allmänna Sången	....	musician

Other crew
Dana Archer	....	public relations
Annemarie Jacir	....	mentoree
Andre Coutu	....	coordinator of global post production (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Beijing New Picture Film Co.
• EDKO Film
• New Picture Company

Distributors

• E1 Films Canada (2012) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Row 1 Entertainment (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2012) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Wrekin Hill Entertainment (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2012) (Switzerland) (all media)
• IPA Asia Pacific (2012) (Thailand) (all media)
• Pinema (2012) (Turkey) (all media)

Special Effects

• Darkside FX (special effects)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• POP Sound  ADR recording
• Pivotal Post  Avid HD Editing Equipment Provided By
• Sony Classical  soundtrack

Also Known As:

"The Flowers of War" - International (English title) (imdb display title)
"As Flores da Guerra" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Flores do Oriente" - Brazil (imdb display title)
"The Flowers of War" - Sweden (imdb display title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence including a sexual assault, disturbing images, and brief strong language

Runtime:

146 min

Country:

China | Hong Kong

Language:

Chinese | English | Japanese | Mandarin | Shanghainese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Datasat

Certification:

USA:R | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:NC-16

Company:

Beijing New Picture Film Co.

Trivia:

China's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.

The Best Film of of 2011

No doubt, The Flowers Of War is the best film of 2011 and one of the best films of Yimou Zhang like Huozhe(To Live) and Hong Gao Liang(Red Sorghum).

The history is true, this story is also true. The movie and novel are adapted from the Diary of Minnie Vantrin(from the files of Nanjing Massacre), Minnie is a churchwoman of USA died in 1941.

The movie is really tragic but beautiful, various goodness and evil of human nature were embodied fully and clearly and exquisitely under the beast of war............I just feel deeply sad and touching.

Postscript: the performance of Christian Bale is really wonderful. Bale will win his another Oscar by this film.