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The film centers on the true story of George Hogg and the sixty orphans that he led across China in an effort to save them from conscription during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The film’s closing credits ironically emphasize its dramatic shortcomings: Here we see the real, now-elderly children of Huang Shi, reflecting on their adventure.
Jun 13, 2008 · A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage.
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- Drama, War
- Roger Spottiswoode
- 2008-06-13
Jun 5, 2008 · All of this seems impossible, but Roger Spottiswoode's "The Children of Huang Shi" is based on fact; there was a real George Hogg. After he stars in an embarrassing public demonstration of the usefulness of flea powder, Hogg travels by mule to a nearby city where Madame Wang ( Michelle Yeoh ) runs a business dealing in seed, grains and perhaps ...
Experience the true story of British journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who snuck across enemy lines in 1937 to expose the Japanese occupation of China. After capture and injury, a ...
May 23, 2008 · A Hollywood weepie snuggled inside a humanitarian tribute, “The Children of Huang Shi” molds the true story of the English reporter George Hogg (played by the Irish actor Jonathan Rhys...
- Roger Spottiswoode
Is this movie based on a true story? The Children of Huang Shi is an onscreen rendition of a true story. British journalist George Hogg sneaked into China during the Japanese occupation in 1937 pretending to be a Red Cross aid worker and hoping to photograph Japanese atrocities.
