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Assembly (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)   ~ Zhang Han Yu | Hu Jun
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| China's foremost commercial filmmaker Feng Xiaogang lives up to his name with the blockbuster war film Assembly. Pulling in over 23 millian yuan at the domestic box office, Assembly outgunned even The Warlords which was screening concurrently. After years of satirical comedies, Feng's films have gotten progressively bigger in recent years, starting with 2004's A World Without Thieves to 2006's star-studded period piece The Banquet. Based on a novel by Yang Jinyuan, Assembly continues this trend in scale and production, but where The Banquet is glossy, Assembly is gritty, pulling in audiences not with star power, but the magnitude of the war experience. Assembly's realistic battle scenes and brilliant camerawork have earned the film comparisons to Saving Private Ryan, but equally powerful is the human drama that follows the war.
Assembly opens on the battlefield in 1948 during China's Civil War. The Ninth Company of the People's Liberation Army led by brash Captain Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu) are sent out to defend a mine from the advancing Kuomintang troops. Given an essentially impossible task, the vastly outnumbered Ninth Company are ordered to hold their positions until they hear the bugle assembly call. But that call never comes, or at least not to the injured ears of Gu, as casualties pile and hope run dries. Of the 48 members of the Ninth Company, Gu alone survives the devastating defeat, only to find that he has become a forgotten man, written off as missing in action, just like his fallen comrades. Drifting from regiment to regiment, war to war, Gu struggles to keep alive the legacy of the Ninth Company.
Zhang Hanyu from A World Without Thieves gives a commanding performance as a military man whose battle scars follow him on his long, restless search for honor and closure. The faces who make up the Ninth Company include popular Mainland stars Deng Chao and Ren Quan, Blind Shaft lead Wang Baoqiang, and television actor Yuan Wenkang, who gives a notable performance as a timid political officer thrown into war. Acclaimed actor Hu Jun (Lan Yu, Infernal Affairs II) also makes a cameo appearance in Assembly.
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| | Product Title | : | Assembly (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) | | Region Code | : | (What is it?) | | Picture Format | : |  (What is it?) | | Artist Name(s) | : | Zhang Han Yu | Hu Jun | Feng Xiao Gang | | Release Date | : | March 13, 2008 | | Language | : | Mandarin, Cantonese | | Subtitle | : | Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese | | Duration | : | 124 Minutes | | Rating | : | IIB | | Package Weight | : | 120 g | | Publisher | : | Mega Star (HK) | | YesAsia Catalog No. | : | 1010019028 | | Shipment Unit | : | 1 (What is it?) |
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Steven Spielberg needn't look in his rearview mirror, but he may want to sit up and give a nod. Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly has been touted as China's answer to Spielberg's Oscar-winning Saving Private Ryan, with the most obvious comparison being the film's battle sequences, which bring visceral action and immediate drama to various 20th-century conflicts in which the Chinese army participated. The film opens during the Chinese Civil War in 1948, during a battle between the Communist People's Liberation Army and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces, where Captain Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu) leads the Ninth Company (of the 139th Regiment, 3rd Battalion) to victory - but at a cost. The group's Political Officer (who handles letter writing and admin work for the company, i.e. he's able to read and write) is killed by artillery fire, and in a rash move, Gu kills his KMT prisoners after they've already surrendered.
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