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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on real events The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930&39;s The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances Together they rescue 60 orphaned children leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert Along the way they discover the true meaning of love responsibility and courage  Making Of  Stills Gallery Actors Yun-Fat Chow Jonathan Rhys Meyers Radha Mitchell Michelle Yeoh Guang Li Lin Ji Matt Walker Anastasia Kolpakova Ping Su Imai Hideaki Sciichiro Hashimoto Shinichi Takashima Xing Mang Ruixiang Zhu & Yuelong Fang Director Roger Spottiswoode Certificate 15 years and over Year 2008 Languages English Duration 2 hours (approx)

This drama set in war-torn China in the 1930s is based on actual events. Englishman George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time as the Japanese army is invading China in 1937. Hogg is almost executed but is saved by a Chinese communist resistance fighter, Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-Fat), and a courageous nurse, Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell), who send him to an orphanage to lie low and help out. While there, he develops a fondness for the children and begins to teach them basic skills. When the orphanage is threatened by the Japanese forces, Hogg takes it upon himself to try and lead the 60 orphaned boys along the Silk Road to safety...