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Red Cliff or Chibi is a 2008–09 internationally co-produced epic war film produced and directed by John Woo. Based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and the events at the end of the Han dynasty and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in Imperial China, it was Woo's first major film since 2003's Paycheck and his first Chinese-language feature film since 1992's Hard Boiled. The film stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai,…
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There is an old Chinese curse, or so the apocryphal saying goes: “may you live in interesting times.” Few periods in history embody this sentiment more perfectly than the era of the Three Kingdoms, which convulsed China throughout the third century AD. It was a time of fractured empires, shifting allegiances, and larger-than-life characters whose exploits have simmered in the collective imagination for nearly two mi…More
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Red Cliff ( Chibi ) is a 2008 Chinese epic historic war film, based on the Battle of Red Cliffs A short summary of the film At the beginning of the third century, Wu County is invaded by the tyrant Cao Cao with his army of 1 million soldiers. The leader of the attacked area, Sun Qual, is forced to ask for help from his rival Liu Bei, but, even so, the armies of the two are not nearly as numerous. Strategist Zhou Yu…More