The Crossing

The Crossing (2014)

太平轮(上)

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

Data di uscita
2014-12-02
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (43)
Durata
2 h 9 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
John Woo
Collezione
太平轮

Cast

Curiosità

  • Girato a: Taiwan, Taipei, Shanghai e Pechino

The Crossing is a 2014–2015 epic historical romance-war drama and disaster film directed by John Woo and written by Hui-Ling Wang. The film stars Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Song Hye-kyo, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Masami Nagasawa. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film is based on the sinking of the Taiping in 1949. The incident led to the deaths of over 1,500 passengers and crew. The film's first part was released in China on December 2, 2014. Part two was released on July 30, 2015.

Production

Zhao Fei is the director of photography and Taro Iwashiro provided the scores for the film.

The film's original script was written by Wang Hui-ling, who had scripted films for Taiwanese director Ang Lee, such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Lust, Caution (2007). A new script written by John Woo, and Taiwanese filmmakers Su Chao-pin and Chen Ching-hui was described as "considerably altered".

The filming began on The Crossing on July 6, 2013 in Beijing. Other shooting locations included Inner Mongolia, Shanghai, Taiwan and Tianjin.

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