China's Forgotten War: 800 Heroes

[@JoyBoy22]

I literally cried watching this movie. Salute

[@chhunyi6040]

I have watched it last night at the Cinema. It is a masterpiece it gave five stars this movie deserves more credit.

[@spitthunder0075]

They told me somes scenes were cut from the movie For example the other "brother" of Xiao Hubei fought against the japanese with katanas in the night And also that Duan Wu scream something to his dying uncle

[@asimple]

@@spitthunder0075 yeah some scenes were 100% cut. Like it's unknown what happens to the soldiers (made up of mostly the main characters) after they charge the Japanese at night.

[@5h0rgunn45]

This needs to be a Sabaton song!!

[@chlai74]

Make a smashing movie, one of the best ways to honour our heroes!

[@kennethh3790]

+chlai74 do our propaganda films count?

[@doubledouble4g379]

+chlai74 Agreed, the western world NEEDS to know more about this conflict to give proper context to tensions between these two old civilizations today. Also, I would LOVE to play through the siege of Shanghai in a WW2 video game instead of landing at Normandy for the umpteenth time.

[@chaoli9844]

They did make a movie. Its called "800 heroes" in chinese. Back and white movie. I watched it hundreds of times when i was a kid.

[@kennethh3790]

Chao Li do you mind telling me the name in Chinese? cus there's gona probably be a billion ways to say it

[@kennethh3790]

Chao Li wow thanks

[@codyshi4743]

This also shows that China had play a major row in defending their home during ww2.

[@laststandinstalingrad5162]

jack han China was the decisive player for the allies in Asia.If China falls then the influence of asia is at risk

[@banditmc12]

Bit late but I’ll say this. If one influence lost in the defence the butterfly effect would be large. Without hard Chinese resistance, the us would not have the chances they had in the pacific, and the course of the war would be altered, as increased us troops in the pacific would have meant less in Europe.

[@pevlez]

Yeah Nationalist China

[@appa609]

You know there's a lot of WW2 films in China but it's pretty uncommon to see one glorifying the actions of nationalist soldiers. Maybe this is a step towards healing.

[@banditmc12]

The Chinese made the movie, mainlanders, see it for what you will, but I see it as the mainland being able to recognise Chinese heroes, not kmt, not ccp, Chinese.

[@luckyblockyoshi]

There's been many recent movies that commemorate Nationalist soldiers actually, including "The Eight Hundred" which was released this year

[@jakechan7375]

PCC is the True nacionalists! They ares true sons of Sun Yat Sen ! KMT became corrupted whith Shiang Kai Sheik!

[@benthebastard6950]

My great grandpa fought the Japanese in Hong Kong

[@phuktard]

My Uncle George was a Stg in the Grenadiers.

[@Young_Baller7]

My great grandpa fought for the Nationalist. I am not sure if he was at this battle

[@truthfulworld846]

I bought this movie on my PS4 top 5 best war films I ever seen.

[@pbfeliz5410]

... i remember that when i was a child (almost 5 decades ago), my father and i watched a movie entitled "800 heroes" and i was impressed with the story. i wonder where and how could i view the movie again?

[@BrianImChoppedLiver]

v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTc2MzY5MDYw.html#paction theres no eng subs though so good luck if you dont understand it

[@laststandinstalingrad5162]

pb feliz they allow it on youtube now

[@BiggCMan]

I hope you are able to see my comment after so many years. But I wanted to let you know that a brand new movie about this story has just released in theaters, called "The Eight Hundred". I just came back from the movie tonight and was totally blown away!! It's such an incredible story, I had to come home and immediately start researching everything about it. So I found this video and a lot more, as well as your comment. I hope you get the chance to see the movie!

[@asimple]

@@BiggCMan yeah it's a stunning movie. The movie pb mentioned though, was made quite literally a few months after the actual event (1937) so it is also very interesting to see.

[@Wolfen443]

So that is the real story, I am more interested in the film now.

[@Deviousboy]

I came here after the 800 movie🥺

[@Young_Baller7]

Same

[@Deviousboy]

@@Young_Baller7 It's a great movie.

[@Young_Baller7]

@@Deviousboy yes it is, I know my great grandfather served for the Nationalist. I’m not sure if he fought in this battle

[@Deviousboy]

@@Young_Baller7 That's crazy, I remember my grandfather told me about the world war two stories, Got so much respect for the elders.

[@Young_Baller7]

@@Deviousboy wow that is crazy. Yeah I do have respect for the elders. After all they did go through a lot when they were younger

[@Boxer_23]

The bravest chinese soldiers

[@Young_Baller7]

True

[@codyshi4743]

Who here has watch the movie?

[@Young_Baller7]

Me

[@outdoorjeff7097]

Can someone explain why they didn’t use artillery?

[@lequanghieu5133]

Stray shot might hit the International Settlement and piss the West off. The Japanese weren't ready for that until 4 years later.

[@edwardhew4984]

Unfortunately he was betrayed and killed.

[@slimemyhouse9877]

Who was? And why?

[@orange8420]

If chinese have better equipment like light mortar heavy machine gun it's like pavlov house in stalingrad

[@shumyinghon]

its a battalion,,not a company

[@dznts5313]

Heros

[@laststandinstalingrad5162]

British Commanders and soldiers admired the Chinese for holding as long as they can because they knew the Chinese were out of date and not advance but able to hold against an advance enemy.A British soldier asked a Chinese soldier how many soldiers do you got then the translator asked.The Chinese soldier said 800 when really they have about 430 troops

[@laststandinstalingrad5162]

Apple Lord They didnt turn them in.They let them move towards Nanjing (Nanking) to set up defensive positions.

[@applepie4287]

Could only find one source saying they were turned over so maybe that didn't happen but the Europeans still made them into POW. www.theworldofchinese.com/2012/07/the-800-heroes/ www.warhistoryonline.com/guest-bloggers/shanghais-last-stand-800-heroes-sihang-warehouse.html/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Sihang_Warehouse (You can ignore this one if you wish as it is Wikipedia) badassoftheweek.com/xie.html (some questionable language)

[@laststandinstalingrad5162]

Apple Lord well if they were then they would of been dead

[@applepie4287]

Just because you are made a POW doesn't necessarily you are killed you do realize that right?

[@stignatius1625]

Commander was assasinated by his own soldiers after

[@brndonlu9635]

why?

[@Bobby-gg5gp]

@@brndonlu9635 the soldier been bribed by the collaborationist government

[@raymonddon8875]

china # 1

[@liam7903]

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[@Zhonguoria]

800 Heroes - half of them imaginary! 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻