Assembly ( Ji jie hao ) Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 11152

Average Rating: 2.6/4

# of Ratings: 7

Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2008

Language: Mandarin

Genre: Biography, Drama

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Actors: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang, Fan Liao, Baoqiang Wang

Plot: Gu Zidi is officer in the People's Liberation Army during Chinese Civil War and is sent to prison for breaking orders. He and friend Wang are freed from army prison to go back to battle. Gu is in charge of securing a mine and to defend the rest of the company's flank. He is ordered not to retreat his men until he hears a bugle call. The unit is soon surrounded by the enemy. Gu and Wang (mortality wounded) are the last ones standing and they decide to blow the mine to protect the bodies of their fallen comrades laid deep inside. Gu wakes up in a hospital where he is believed to be a POW. There are no records of his unit, their brave actions or proof that he is an ally. He spends his life trying to prove his story and his unit's sacrifice.

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Yojimbo - wrote on 05/30/2012

The captain of a squad who were wiped out defending a crucial position during the Chinese civil war suffers survivor's guilt and obsessively sets about trying to find their bodies and prove their heroic sacrifice. Assembly is very similar in both style and substance to Korean war film Brotherhood. It too centres around the discovery of fallen soldiers and representing their bravery in some brutally realistic battle sequences. It also shares the same strengths and witnesses of Je-kyu Kang's film in that it relies slightly too much on melodrama and manipulation for its characterisation despite the impressively epic scale of the surrounding violence. The battle scenes are very much from the Saving Private Ryan school, realistically recreating the horrors of war but the characters themselves …

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