Iron Sichuan Clique Nine Lives (2020)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

The film tells the story of the battlefield against the Japanese in southern Hunan in 1944. After The Kuomintang (Nationalist) ordered the army to withdraw, the last nine members of a Sichuan army company led by Qin Hao Zhong stayed behind themselves to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops.

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