THE EIGHT HUNDRED (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Huang Zhizhong (The Captain), Zhang Junyi (film debut), Oho Ou (The Left Ear), Jiang Wu (Shower), Zhang Yi (Operation Red Sea), Wang Qianyuan (The Golden Era), Du Chun (The Founding of a Party), Vision Wei (Fleet of Time), Li Chen (Aftershock), Yu Haoming (Youth Dinner), Zheng Kai (Let’s Get Married)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Guan Hu (Mr. Six), director, writer; Ge Rui (My People, My Country), writer; Zhu Wenjiu (Strangers), producer; Rupert Gregson-Williams (Hacksaw Ridge) and Andrew Kawczynski (Sky Hunter), composers; Cao Yu (City of Life and Death), cinematographer; Yiran Tu (Big Fish & Begonia) and He Yongyi (film debut), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1937, during the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the final days of the Battle of Shanghai, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight to defend a warehouse in the middle of the battlefield, which is completely surrounded by the Japanese army…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This record-breaking Chinese blockbuster has already outperformed other big movies like Tenet in its home country, and now here’s your chance to catch this epic war movie on UK screens wherever you are.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2020

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