Actor Shigeo Kobayashi (1970)

Directed by Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War (2011) is a Chinese-Hong Kong historical drama that takes place during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. With the invasion of Japan, China’s capital city Nanjing falls to the Imperial Japanese Army in December, resulting in the brutal Nanjing massacre. As the Chinese army is overtaken, a group of desperate schoolgirls seeks refuge at a Western-run Roman Catholic cathedral. In their midst is John Miller, an American mortician on a mission to bury the head priest. He befriends George, an orphan boy who was raised by the deceased priest and taught English. Soon after, a ...