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The Flowers of War

Summary: An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Release Date: December 16, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Heng Liu

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing New Picture Film, Edko Films, New Picture Company, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Row 1 Entertainment, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 94,000,000

Domestic: $ 311,434

International: $ 2,544,210

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6 year old abusive stepfather ambush american arm band atrocity attempted rape backpack barbed wire barricading a door based on novel based on true story bathroom battle bayonet bedsheet begins with historical notes begins with text being watched bicycle biting a rapist blood blood splatter boat bomb crater bread breaking a mirror bribe brothel brutality burial burying the dead campfire candle carrying a body on one's shoulders cat cat figurine catechism cathedral celebration cellar chase child child rape china chinese chinese history chinese soldier choir christmas church cigarette cigarette holder cigarette lighter cigarette smoking classmate collection box colonel convent corpse counting heads courtesan covered in flour crank starting an engine crate cross cross dressing crying cutting off one's beard dead body dead children dead daughter death death of a teenage girl death of child death of father disguise dormitory dragged by hair dragged by one's leg dropping a bottle drunkenness dying earrings escape explosion eyeglasses face slap falling from height falling to death father daughter relationship father son relationship fear female binds her breasts feng shui flashback flirting flour fog folk song food food shortage forced prostitution gang rape gate girl fight girl in jeopardy glass knife glue grave grenade hair styling haircut hand kissing hands held in the air haunting head wound hero heroism hiding hiding in a closet hiding in an armoire hiding in the back of a truck hiding under a table hit on the head hit on the head with a rifle butt homesickness horse horse and cart humiliation impersonating a priest interracial love interracial sex japanese japanese flag japanese folk song japanese occupation japanese occupation of china japanese soldier jumping from height katana katana sword kindergarten teacher kiss kitten lantern legal permit lie lieutenant lighting a cigarette for a woman lingerie looking at oneself in a mirror looking out a window machine gun mahjong major making bread male disguised as a female male protagonist massacre memory mercy military military convoy mirror money mortician motorcycle with a sidecar murder murder of father nanjing china nanking massacre china 1937 number 13 one man army organist orphan outnumbered overhead camera shot pain party photograph pipa pipe organ pistol potato pounding on a door prayer pretending to be a priest priest promise prostitute pursuit quinhuai river rain ransacking rape raped by stepfather razor red cross reference to pubic hair refuge repairing a truck rifle rifle pointed at the camera rifle with telescope running running for one's life sacrifice sacrificing one's life saving a life scissors seduction self sacrifice sexual abuse shaving shaving kit shaving off beard shaving one's beard shooting shot in the head shot in the neck shot through a helmet shushing with finger to mouth singer singing sino japanese war sitting on steps slow motion scene sniper song stabbing stained glass window starving child steeple stepfather stepdaughter relationship student subjective camera suffering suicide pact suicide threat suitcase surrogate sister survival sword tank tea tears teenage girl timeframe 1930s tower tragic event traitor trapdoor troop truck truck truck crank trust type 94 tankette unconsciousness underwater scene undressing urination using a broken mirror as a knife village voice over narration war crime war orphan watching someone wheat whiskey whistling white male lead in a diverse cast wig wig making wine world war two wound year 1937

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