Bodyguards and Assassins
To save a nations future, they must protect one man from its past.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 26, 2011
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Leon Lai, Simon Yam & Tony Leung Ka Fai | |
Directed by | Teddy Chen | |
Screenwriting by | Chin Tin Nam, Guo Junli, Joyce Chan, James Yuen, Wu Bing & Qin Tiannan | |
Composition by | Kwong Wing Chan, Peter Kam & Chan Kwong-Wing | |
Story by | Chan Tung Man | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Wong |
Entertainment Reviews:
For Occidental eyes, 'Bodyguards and Assassins' is more of a playful recreation of history than anything else.
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UR Chicago Magazine
A group of politically active citizens led a campaign to protect revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Wen from Qing assassins. That means I get to see Asian dudes kick each other.
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Screen Junkies
With its stirring dramas, riveting suspense and engaging performances, Bodyguards and Assassins focuses on a tiny moment in time to suggest that we are all in fact part of an ongoing revolution.
Little White Lies
The thematic weight of Bodyguards and Assassins comes down to the duality between varying belief systems, and how codes of honor and villainy can be associated with both sides of the battlefield.
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House Next Door
Like so much junk food, it tastes good at the time and hits the spot but is forgotten a few hours later.
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Product Description:
A man is determined to stand up for his country despite the challenges of deadly adversaries in this action drama from director Teddy Chen. It's 1906, and as China begins to turn its back on the outside world and makes new demands of its people, a growing number of Chinese citizens are calling for democracy. The possibility of revolution does not sit well with Chinese authorities, and Sun Yat-sen (Hanyu Zhang), an popular activist calling for reform in China, has been forced to seek exile in nearby Hong Kong to protect himself. Sun Yat-sen is hardly the only freedom-loving Chinese patriot living in Hong Kong, and when he's invited to take part in secret talks about the future of the nation, he and his fellow exiles are put into a tight spot. Chinese authorities want to silence Sun Yat-sen by assassination, and military commander Yan Xiaoguo (Hu Jun), his lieutenant Sa Zhenchan (Cung Le) and a regiment of soldiers skilled in martial arts are dispatched to find the underground leader and put him to this death. Now the Chinese expatriate community in Hong King must take sides -- do they ignore the crisis, or stand up to protect Sun Yat-sen in his moment of need' Among those who must decide where they stand are Chen Xiaobai (Tony Leung Ka-fai), an activist and journalist; Chen's financial backer Li Yuetang (Wang Xueqi); his teenage son Li Chungguang (Wang Bo-chieh); Yuet-yu (Fan Bingbing), Li Yuetang's "kept woman;" and Sum Chung-yang (Donnie Yen), her former husband. SHIYUE WEICHENG (aka ASSASSINS AND BODYGUARDS) was an official selection at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 63,619
- UPC: 883476032634
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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