The Flowers of War | film by Zhang [2011] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Zhang Yimou
  …ling shi san chai (2011; The Flowers of War), he told the story of an American mortician (played by Christian Bale) who shelters a group of convent students and prostitutes during the Nanjing Massacre. Gui lai (2014; Coming Home) featured Gong as a woman whose marriage is destroyed when her…
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role of Bale

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  In Christian Bale
  …ling shi san chai (2011; The Flowers of War), directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, Bale starred as an American mortician who shelters a group of young women during the Nanjing Massacre. He donned Batman’s cape once again in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and played a beleaguered welder whose…
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