72 Heroes

72 Heroes

Film poster
Traditional 英雄喋血
Simplified 英雄喋血
Mandarin Yīng Xióng Dié Xuè
Cantonese Jing1 Hung4 Dip4 Hyut3
Directed by Derek Chiu
Produced by Wang Jiancheng
Jiang Baoshan
Choi Jae Hong
Screenplay by Wang Mei
Starring Liu Kai-chi
Tse Kwan Ho
Irene Wan
Elanne Kong
Wang Jiancheng
Zhao Bingrui
Eric Tsang
Alan Tam
Oh U Jeong
Li Zhi
Zhang Yang
Music by Su Junjie
Cinematography Edmond Fung
Edited by Wang Chao
Production
company
Pearl River Film
Distributed by Pearl River Film
China Film Promotion International
Release date
  • 16 September 2011 (2011-09-16) (China)
  • 15 September 2012 (2012-09-15) (Hong Kong)
Running time
 112 minutes
Country China
Language Mandarin

72 Heroes is a 2011 Chinese historical drama film directed by Hong Kong film director Derek Chiu, better known as Sung Kee Chiu, based on the story of the 72 Martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Second Guangzhou Uprising.

Plot

The film takes place in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, October 1900. After failing to assassinate the governor-general by blowing up his mansion as part of the anti-Manchu Huizhou Uprising, revolutionary Shi Jianru is captured and executed. Guangzhou, Guangdong province, 1911: following other unsuccessful uprisings, Pan Dawei, deputy head of the Guangzhou department of the Tongmenghui, arrives by boat and smuggles weapons past customs officers. During a dinner party at the house of wealthy local trader Fang Hongzhi, head of the Guangxing business association, there is an assassination attempt on the Manchu Qing government's Marine Minister Li Zhun, which fails. Among the guests is Luo Zhonghuo, just arrived from Penang, Malaysia, who gets to know Fang's daughter, Huiru, also a revolutionary. Afterwards she takes him to the house of painter Gao Jianfu, head of the Tongmenghui's Guangzhou department. Zhonghuo is carrying a letter from Tongmenghui leader Sun Yat-sen, but neither Jianfu nor Dawei are sure whether he is a spy. To convince them he is genuine, Huiru suggests he tries raising some money for the movement from her father, by first becoming friendly with his cultured longtime mistress Jiang Meixi. Zhonghuo becomes Meixi's English tutor and helps Fang in getting a local gang off of the Guangxing's turf. As Chinese New Year arrives, Gao and Pan plan a mass suicide attack on the governor-general's residence - in what will become known as the Second Guangzhou Uprising of 27 April 1911.

Cast

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