The Eight Hundred
2020 · Movie · 147 min
★ 7.1(350)unSUB Rating
In 1937, a group of Chinese soldiers make a desperate stand from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield. Completely surrounded by the Japanese army, they fight to hold their position under relentless siege.
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Details
- Original title
- 八佰
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-08-14
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.0/10 (350 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, large-scale wartime siege story with constant pressure and high stakes, similar in spirit to The Sacrifice; Not for you if you avoid prolonged combat and bleak conflict.
Pros: intense siege stakes; large-scale battle action; strong wartime atmosphere | Cons: grim and heavy; frequent combat violence; limited quiet moments
Themes
- siege
- second sino-japanese war (1937-45)
Cast & crew
Wang Qianyuan
as Yang Guai
Zhang Yi
as Old Abacus
Huang Zhizhong
as Lao Hulu
Jiang Wu
as Lao Tie
Ou Hao
as Duan Wu
Du Chun
as Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan
Vision Wei
as Zhu Shengzhong
Tang Yixin
as Yang Huimin
Li Jiuxiao
as Dao Zi
Jerry Lee
as Qi Jiaming
Directed by Guan Hu