Additional information for Red Cliff, which has a domestic theatrical release set for November 20, 2009. The film is being distributed by Summit Entertainment and has not yet been rated. Red Cliff has a total running time of 150 minutes.
15
South Korea
PG
Singapore
IIB
Hong Kong
U
Malaysia
14
Switzerland
KT
Belgium
15
UK
15
Norway
15A
Ireland
M/12
Portugal
K-15
Finland
12
Netherlands
R
USA
R-13
Philippines
MA
Australia
14A
Canada
15
Sweden
16
Germany
13
Argentina
12
Spain
150min
150min
Red Cliff
Finland
Red Cliff
Germany
Red Cliff
International
Red Cliff
UK
Red Cliff
USA
The Battle of Red Cliff
Denmark
The Battle of Red Cliff
International
The Battle of Red Cliff
Sweden
A Batalha dos 3 Reinos
Brazil
A Batalha dos 3 Reinos
Brazil
Битва у Красной скалы
Russia
A Batalha de Red Cliff
Portugal
A Batalha dos Três Reinos
Brazil
Acantilado rojo
Spain
Bitka kod Crvene stene
Serbia
Chek bik
Hong Kong
El acantilado rojo
Argentina
Kizil Uçurum
Turkey
Krvavé pobrezí
Czech Republic
La battaglia dei tre regni - Parte 1
Italy
Les 3 royaumes
France
O porfyros lofos
Greece
Punane kalju
Estonia
Red Cliff: Part I
Japan
Trzy królestwa
Poland
Vörös szikla
Hungary
June 30, 2008
South Korea
July 02, 2008
China
July 03, 2008
China
July 08, 2008
Taiwan
July 10, 2008
China
July 10, 2008
Hong Kong
July 10, 2008
South Korea
July 10, 2008
Taiwan
July 10, 2008
Thailand
July 11, 2008
Singapore
July 15, 2008
Indonesia
July 17, 2008
Malaysia
October 18, 2008
Japan
November 01, 2008
Japan
January 30, 2009
Latvia
February 20, 2009
Denmark
March 20, 2009
Estonia
March 25, 2009
Belgium
March 25, 2009
France
April 02, 2009
Greece
May 01, 2009
Lithuania
May 22, 2009
Norway
June 12, 2009
Ireland
June 12, 2009
UK
June 18, 2009
Czech Republic
July 03, 2009
Poland
July 17, 2009
Turkey
July 23, 2009
Australia
July 29, 2009
Finland
July 29, 2009
Sweden
August 01, 2009
Germany
August 06, 2009
Netherlands
August 20, 2009
Russia
September 12, 2009
Kazakhstan
September 20, 2009
Finland
September 24, 2009
Portugal
September 25, 2009
Brazil
October 07, 2009
Egypt
October 09, 2009
USA
October 14, 2009
Philippines
October 15, 2009
New Zealand
October 16, 2009
USA
October 22, 2009
USA
October 23, 2009
Brazil
October 23, 2009
Italy
October 29, 2009
Israel
November 01, 2009
Germany
November 05, 2009
Germany
November 18, 2009
USA
November 25, 2009
USA
December 04, 2009
Canada
January 21, 2010
Kuwait
March 12, 2010
USA
March 18, 2010
Spain
May 10, 2010
Brazil
August 05, 2010
Hungary
November 01, 2010
Argentina
August 26, 2011
Iceland
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The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
In Autumn of 208 AD, 100,000 peasants fled with their beloved leader Liu Bei from Cao Cao's million man army. With the aid of heroes like Zhao Yun (the subject of the new "Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon" film) and Zhang Fei, they escape across the Great River (Chinese 'Yangtze') to take refuge with Sun Quan, the leader of the south.
As Cao Cao prepares his huge navy to invade southern China and destroy them both, geniuses like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu devise a grand strategy. They hope to destroy Cao Cao's 10,000 ships with fire upon the river, but must first trick Cao Cao into chaining his ships together, and then change the direction of China's famous and freezing North Wind.
While these two struggle to put aside the rivalry between Liu Bei and Sun Quan's forces, they must hatch their legendary schemes before Cao Cao is ready. This synopsis is based on the events of the 600 year old story - "Romance of Three Kingdoms" - the favorite novel of over 1 billion Chinese people and the most famous novel in Asia.Director John Woo said in an interview with CCTV-6 that the film will use primarily the historical record Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms as a blueprint for the Battle of Red Cliffs, rather than the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As such, traditionally vilified characters such as Cao Cao and Zhou Yu will be given a more historically accurate treatment in the film. On Its Theatrical Release when it the two parts were released as one film.....Part 1>> In the summer of AD 208 during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial army led by Chancellor (or Prime Minister) Cao Cao embarks on a campaign to eliminate the southern warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei in the name of eliminating rebels, with the reluctant approval of the Emperor. Cao Cao's mighty army swiftly conquers the southern province of Jingzhou and the Battle of Changban is ignited when Cao Cao's cavalry unit starts attacking the civilians who are on an exodus led by Liu Bei. During the battle, Liu Bei's followers, including his sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, give an excellent display of their legendary combat skills by managing to hold off the enemy while buying time for the civilians to retreat. The warrior Zhao Yun fights bravely to rescue his lord Liu Bei's entrapped family but only succeeded in rescuing Liu's infant son. Following the battle, Liu Bei's chief advisor Zhuge Liang sets forth on a diplomatic mission to Eastern Wu to form an alliance between Liu Bei and Sun Quan to deal with Cao Cao's invasion. Sun Quan was initially in the midst of a dilemma of whether to surrender or resist, but his decision to resist Cao Cao hardens after Zhuge Liang's clever persuasion and a subsequent tiger hunt with his Grand Viceroy Zhou Yu and his sister Sun Shangxiang. Meanwhile, naval commanders Cai Mao and Zhang Yun from Jingzhou pledge allegiance to Cao Cao and were received warmly by Cao, who placed them in command of his navy. After the hasty formation of the alliance, the forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan call for a meeting to formulate a plan to counter Cao Cao's army, which is advancing slowly towards Red Cliff at godspeed from both land and water. The battle then begins with Sun Shangxiang leading a light cavalry unit to lure Cao Cao's vanguard army into the Eight Trigrams Formation laid down by the allied forces. Cao Cao's vanguard army is utterly defeated by the allies but Cao Cao shows no disappointment and proceeds to lead his main army to the riverbank directly opposite the allies' main camp where they laid camp. While the allies throw a banquet to celebrate their victory, Zhuge Liang thinks of a plan to send Sun Shangxiang to infiltrate Cao Cao's camp and serve as a spy for them. The duo maintain contact by sending messages via a pigeon. The film ends with Zhou Yu lighting his miniaturised battleships on a map based on the battle formation, signifying his plans for defeating Cao Cao's navy.Part 2>> Sun Shangxiang has infiltrated Cao Cao's camp and she has been secretly noting details and sending them via a pigeon to Zhuge Liang. Meanwhile, Cao Cao's army is seized with a plague of typhoid fever which kills a number of his troops. Cao Cao cunningly orders the corpses to be sent to the allies' camp, hoping to pass the plague on to his enemies. The allied army's morale is affected when some unsuspecting soldiers let the plague in, and eventually a disheartened Liu Bei leaves with his forces while Zhuge Liang stays behind to assist the Eastern Wu forces. Cao Cao hears that the alliance had collapsed and is overjoyed. At the same time, his naval commanders Cai Mao and Zhang Yun propose a new tactic of interlocking the battleships together with iron beams to minimize rocking when sailing on the river and reduce the chances of the troops falling seasick.
The Eastern Wu forces look on as Liu Bei leaves the alliance. From front to back: Zhou Yu (Tony Leung), Sun Quan (Chang Chen), Lu Su (Hou Yong). Subsequently, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang make plans on how to eliminate Cao Cao's naval commanders Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and produce 100,000 arrows respectively. They agreed that whoever fails to complete his mission will be punished by execution under military law. Zhuge Liang's ingenious strategy of borrowing of arrows with straw boats brought in over 100,000 arrows from the enemy and aroused Cao Cao's suspicions about the loyalty of Cai and Zhang towards him. On the other hand, Cao Cao sends Jiang Gan to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, but Zhou Yu tricks Jiang Gan instead, into believing that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are planning to assassinate their lord Cao Cao. Both Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu's respective plans complement each other when Cao Cao is convinced, despite earlier having doubts about Jiang Gan's report, that Cai and Zhang were indeed planning to assassinate him by deliberately 'donating' arrows to the enemy. Cai and Zhang are executed and Cao Cao realised his folly afterwards but it was too late.
In the Eastern Wu camp, Sun Shangxiang returns from Cao Cao's camp with a map of the enemy formation. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang decide to attack Cao Cao's navy with fire after knowing that there is a special climatic condition known only to Eastern Wu's forces, that the South-East Wind (to their advantage) would blow sometime soon. As the Eastern Wu forces made preparations for the fire attack, Huang Gai proposes to Zhou Yu the Self-Torture Ruse to increase their chances of success, but Zhou Yu does not heed it. Before the battle, the forces of Eastern Wu have a final moment together, feasting on glutinous rice balls to celebrate the Winter Festival. Meanwhile, Zhou Yu's wife Xiao Qiao heads towards Cao Cao's camp alone secretly, in hope of persuading Cao Cao to give up his ambitious plans but she fails and decides to distract him instead to buy time for the Eastern Wu forces. The battle begins when the South-East Wind starts blowing in the middle of the night and the Eastern Wu forces launch their full-scale attack on Cao Cao's navy. On the other hand, Liu Bei's forces, which had apparently left the alliance, start attacking Cao Cao's forts on land. By dawn, Cao Cao's entire navy has been destroyed. The allied forces launch another offensive on Cao Cao's ground army, stationed in his forts, and succeeded in breaking through using testudo formation despite suffering heavy casualties. Although Cao Cao is besieged in his main camp, he manages to holds Zhou Yu hostage after catching him off guard together with Cao Hong. Xiahou Jun appears as well holding Xiao Qiao hostage and causes the allied forces to hesitate. In the nick of time, Zhao Yun manages to reverse the situation by rescuing Xiao Qiao with a surprise attack and put Cao Cao at the mercy of the allied forces instead. Eventually, the allied forces decide to spare Cao Cao's life and tell him never to return before leaving for home. In the final scenes, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are seen having a final conversation before Zhuge Liang walks away into the far distance with the newborn foal Mengmeng. [D-Man2010]
John Woo
Director(s)
John Woo
Khan Chan
Cheng Kuo
Heyu Sheng
Guanzhong Luo
Writer(s)
Terence Chang
producer
Zilong Guo
co-producer (as Guo Zilong)
Sanping Han
producer (as Han Sanping)
Xiaoei Han
co-executive producer (as Han Xiaoei)
Bing He
co-producer (as He Bing)
Xiaofeng Hu
executive producer
Xiaofeng Hu
line producer (as Hu Xiaofeng)
Chin-Wen Huang
co-producer (as Chin-Wen Huang)
Tao Jiang
chief producer
Yeh Jufeng
administrative producer (as Yeh Ju Feng)
Wu Kebo
co-producer (as Wu Kebo)
Woo-Taek Kim
co-producer (as WooTaek Kim)
Sirena Liu
co-producer (as Liu Yan)
Hongshi Lu
co-executive producer (as Lu Hongshi)
Masato Matsuura
co-producer
Rick Nathanson
line producer
Mingyu Peng
administrative producer (as Peng Mingyu)
Zhong-lun Ren
co-producer (as Ren Zhonglun)
Dong-ming Shi
associate producer (as Shi Dongming)
David Tang
administrative producer
Zhan Teng
co-producer (as Teng Zhan)
Lori Tilkin
associate producer
Jianqiu Wang
co-producer (as Wang Jianqiu)
Wang Wei
administrative producer
Todd Weinger
associate producer
Anne Woo
administrative producer
John Woo
chief producer
John Woo
producer
Jianshai Xu
associate producer (as Xu Jianshai)
Pengle Xu
co-executive producer (as Xu Pengle)
Xiaoming Yan
co-producer (as Yan Xiaoming)
Shoucheng Yang
co-producer (as Yang Shoucheng)
Cheri Yeung
administrative producer
Dong Yu
associate producer (as Yu Dong)
Dong Yu
co-producer (as Yu Dong)
Daxing Zhang
administrative producer
Qiang Zhang
co-producer (as Zhang Qiang)
Producer(s)
Tarô Iwashiro
Composer(s)
Zhou Yu (as Tony Leung)
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Zhuge Liang
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Cao Cao
Fengyi Zhang
Sun Quan
Chen Chang
Sun Shangxiang
Wei Zhao
Zhao Yun
Jun Hu
Gan Xing (as Shidou Nakamura)
Shidô Nakamura
Xiao Qiao (as Chi-Ling Lin)
Chiling Lin
Liu Bei
Yong You
Lu Su
Yong Hou
Sun Shucai
Dawei Tong
Li Ji
Jia Song
Guan Yu
Ba Sen Zha Bu
Zhang Fei
Jinsheng Zang
Huang Gai
Shan Zhang
Cao Hong
Hui Wang
Hua Tuo
Gang Xie
Yue Jin
Chao Guo
Lady Mi
Yin He
Tian Tian
Hua Ye
Zhang Zhao
Yi Zhang
Gu Yong
Qi Wu
Man Tun
Feng He
Li Tong
Tong Jiang
Wei Ben
Jing Ma
Qin Seng
Chang Hai Chen
Xu Chu
Yu Gui Cui
Xiao Ciao (voice)
Nicole Dionne
Baby Dou
Xiang Rui Fu
Emperor Han (voice)
Philip Hersh
Jiang Gan
Shi Xiao Hong
Xia Hou Jan
Xiao Guang Hu
Zhang You
Hongwei Jia
Lady Gan
Hong Li
Soldier
Hong Chen Li
Old man
Jingwu Ma
Guan Ping
Ho Wu Li Ji Mong
Chun Sun
Sheperd Boy
Xin Yu Sun
Emperor Han
Ning Wang
Director(s)
Khan Chan
Cheng Kuo
Heyu Sheng
Guanzhong Luo
Writer(s)
producer
Zilong Guo
co-producer (as Guo Zilong)
Sanping Han
producer (as Han Sanping)
Xiaoei Han
co-executive producer (as Han Xiaoei)
Bing He
co-producer (as He Bing)
Xiaofeng Hu
executive producer
Xiaofeng Hu
line producer (as Hu Xiaofeng)
Chin-Wen Huang
co-producer (as Chin-Wen Huang)
Tao Jiang
chief producer
Yeh Jufeng
administrative producer (as Yeh Ju Feng)
Wu Kebo
co-producer (as Wu Kebo)
Woo-Taek Kim
co-producer (as WooTaek Kim)
Sirena Liu
co-producer (as Liu Yan)
Hongshi Lu
co-executive producer (as Lu Hongshi)
Masato Matsuura
co-producer
Rick Nathanson
line producer
Mingyu Peng
administrative producer (as Peng Mingyu)
Zhong-lun Ren
co-producer (as Ren Zhonglun)
Dong-ming Shi
associate producer (as Shi Dongming)
David Tang
administrative producer
Zhan Teng
co-producer (as Teng Zhan)
Lori Tilkin
associate producer
Jianqiu Wang
co-producer (as Wang Jianqiu)
Wang Wei
administrative producer
Todd Weinger
associate producer
Anne Woo
administrative producer
John Woo
chief producer
John Woo
producer
Jianshai Xu
associate producer (as Xu Jianshai)
Pengle Xu
co-executive producer (as Xu Pengle)
Xiaoming Yan
co-producer (as Yan Xiaoming)
Shoucheng Yang
co-producer (as Yang Shoucheng)
Cheri Yeung
administrative producer
Dong Yu
associate producer (as Yu Dong)
Dong Yu
co-producer (as Yu Dong)
Daxing Zhang
administrative producer
Qiang Zhang
co-producer (as Zhang Qiang)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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