Air Strike

original title:
Air Strike
other titles:
The Bombing Unbreakable Spirit
country / year of production:
China / 2018
original length:
127 min. , color
premiere:
17. August 2018
genre:
war movie
based on:
director:
Xiao Feng
film script:
Ping Chen
producer:
Buting Yang , Jian- Xiang Shi
cinematographer:
Shu Yang
editor:
Chi-Leung Kwong , Robert Anthony Ferretti
composer:
Liguang Wang
cast (role):
Ye Liu (Xue Gangtou) , Bruce Willis (Jack) , Song Seung-heon (An Minxun) , William Chan Wai- ting (Cheng Ting) , Fan Wei (Uncle Cui) , Wu Gang (Zhao Chun) , Ma Su (Ding Lian) , Che Yongli (Yagou) , Feng Yuanzheng (Xue Manguan) , Ning Chang (Quian Xue) , Le Geng (Jin Xiang) , Tenma Shibuya (Zero Fighter Pilot Sato) , Fan Zhang (Cui Liu) , Nicholas Tse (Lei Tao) , Bingbing Fan (Ye Peixuan) , Daoming Chen (Chief of City Defense)
more:
plot synopsis:
The movie “Air Strike ” is a war movie set during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the Battle of Shanghai and Nanjing in 1937.
During the Second Chinese-Japanese War, China suffers from repeated air raids by the Japanese forces. The story follows a group of Chinese pilots on a daring mission to protect an important military transport. At the same time, civilians and resistance fighters in Chongqing struggle to survive while the city is under heavy bombardment.
Bruce Willis plays a US military advisor who trains the Chinese pilots to give them a better chance in aerial combat against the superior Japanese air force.
keywords:
comradeship , resistance, opposition , air force , war in the sky , colour film
war:
Sino–Japanese Wars (1894-1895, 1937-1945)
literature:
remarks:
The original cut of the film is 127 minutes long and features a mixture of dialogue in Mandarin and English. However for US release, the film was cut down to 96 minutes and fully dubbed into English. Different territories have chosen to distribute one or the other cut:

Original version: The UK, The Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway
Dubbed cut version: The USA, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, Italy, Spain
availability:
Amazon Prime Video