The Flowers of War 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.
The Flowers of War Cast
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as Terry
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User Review
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Based on a plot of destruction and devastation, Flowers Of War portrays one of the worst atrocities of the 19th century, the Japanese brutality and Nanking destruction in the winter of 1937-38 and the complete massacre of about 300,00 civilians. Directed by Zhang Yimou, one of the China’s most talented film-makers, it has described an appalling happening as a fictionalised plot. Again a superb Christian Bale performance as a mercenary American mortician, who initially poses as a priest to save himself is pretty appreciable. The U-turn of the whole plot arrives in the form of a transformation of John Miller’s (Christian Bale) soul from a show-off priest to a saintly figure helping a dozen... |
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