The Warriors
MovieTitle | Yong shì |
User score | 2 |
Release date | Oct 14, 2016 |
Genre | History, Action, War |
Director | Ning Haiqiang |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Run time | 100 min. |
The Warriors was directed by Ning Haiqiang (whose oeuvre includes 2015’s The Hundred Regiments Offensive), is set in 1935 and follows a regiment of the People’s Liberation Army – then known simply as the Red Army – led by Commander Huang Kaixiang (Ethan Li) and including Sergeant Yang Zhengwei (Nie Yuan), as it races towards a key bridge that has to be taken in order to stop the Kuomintang troups’ progress in the region.