Assembly Page #4

Synopsis: War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield, and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of war's insatiable appetite, Guzidi, Captain of the Ninth Company, will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948 witnessed the launching of the Huaihai Campaign during the Chinese Civil War. In one of Chinese history's deadliest battles, thousands from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Nationalist Army (KMT) fell in the battle that took place between Xuzhou and Bengdu. It was amid this bloody fight that Captain Guzidi led the Ninth Company infantry unit on a sniper mission. His orders were to fight the KMT Army until the retreat assembly call was sounded. Yet, after many long hours of painstaking resistance, Gu watched powerless as the ammunition ran out and the scant ranks of the Ninth Company g
Director(s): Xiaogang Feng
Production: Metrodome Distribution
  25 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Year:
2007
124 min
93 Views


Just leave me

Don't get yourselves killed

Go!

Put the guns down

Put them down

We are the allied troops

Er Dou

Relax

This uniform decides if we make it out alive

But we don't know how to speak Korean

We don't speak Korean

The Americans speak even less

Where's Hoengsong gun?

How do we get to Hoengsong gun?

(Chinese gibberish trying to sound Korean)

No, no

Where is Hoengsong gun?

Hoengsong gun?

Yeah, yeah

Hoengsong gun

Stop messing with him

How do we get there?

He stepped on a landmine

He's on a landmine

lt's not your lucky day

Looks like a French anti personnel mine

lf you're lucky

Just the leg get blown off

l know this will blow my leg off

Well, good luck to you

You're gonna need it

Let's get out of here

They have more things to worry about than us

Stay still

Gu

Stand still

Stand still

Lift up your foot

Slowly

What will happen?

l've got a plan

You are the eyes of dozens of cannons

Lift your foot and walk away

Faster

lt might cost me a leg

But you'll be blown to pieces

You know what?

l can't even hear the artillery sound

The assembly call keeps ringing in my ears

lt never stops playing

All my men heard it

l was the only one who didn't

l might as well be dead

Then l could see my 47 brothers

Man

You can't die

Hurry the f*** up

Order the battalion to blow up the bridge

Aim at 475

Fifth Company, four cannons

Ready

Fire

Minus five

Fire

On my command

All fire

Fire

Captain

Let's go

Lead us out of here

lf we don't go

We'll all die

lf the bugle hasn't sounded

Even if you're the last man standing

You must keep fighting

Li Fucai

Killed in action

Here

Man Di, Zhang Wancai, Xu Fugui, Zhang Shunxiang

Missing in action

They're not missing in action

They were war heroes

Five men came from my village

Three got killed

Two are deemed heroes

And my brother?

Missing in action

That's not fair

Yeah, so unfair

Comrade

Please be fair

My brother didn't come home from the war

Wasn't he killed in action ?

He's still dead either way

But he's got to die for a reason

The family of a hero gets 700 pounds of rice

Families of the missing in action

Get 200 pounds of rice only

A difference of 500

Sir

What kind of gun is this?

Haven't seen it before

l wonder what this is

Comrade

Let me ask you a question

Are you from the local military office?

Yes

Has anyone come looking for troops from

Central Field's 2nd special division?

Liu

This is your department

Have there been?

Central Field's 2nd special division?

So many troops have come back

l can't remember

Hey, Comrade

Take a look at this

What kind of gun is this?

British 77

l used this in guerrilla warfare in Pingxi

Hard to use

My husband's name was Wang Jincun

Troops from our town saw him in Yang village

He was a teacher

His letters said he didn't fight in the front line

ln war, it doesn't really matter

Whether you fought in the front line or not

He's either dead, ran away, or taken prisoner

That's why he's missing

Comrade

People from town keep gossiping

And say he was executed by his own troops

His mother died with shame

Excuse me

Your husband was Wang Jincun?

Yes

l was his Captain

Battlefields lined both sides of the Wen River

Hundreds of thousands of troops were assembled here

And if all the reinforcements were added together

They'd outnumber everyone in this county

Of course

Many people died

This should be the place

But it looks completely different

Sir

Any entrances to the old mine?

There's one below, it collapsed

Take me to it

Let's go

This isn't it

Are there any other entrances?

This is the only one left

The others were destroyed in '52

Were any bodies found?

Not that l heard

My men were all lying inside

You didn't see them?

They were all lying inside

Why couldn't you see them?

Gu

Calm down

Did you find this helmet here?

This? We've got tons of them

The miners pee in them at night

These were worn on the heads of soldiers

And you pee in them!

Gu!

Miss

Don't listen to them

Your husband was a good man

l can prove it

l can prove it

He shed his blood on this soil

l can prove it

Gu

Gu

l will prove that my brothers

Are buried under this mountain of coal

l will prove it to them

l'll prove it

He was studying at the provincial

teacher's college

He left without saying a word

His mother missed him so much

She became ill

And never got out of bed again

At first

We received letters from him

After receiving his last letter

On August 13, 1948

l never heard from him again

He wrote to you everyday

His clothes were filled with letters

Please

Tell me how he died

Please tell me

He was very clean

His hair was always perfectly combed

He looked the same when he died

He was hit by a tiny bit of shrapnel

About this big.on a fatal spot

You couldn't see the wound

He looked as if he was sleeping

His hair looked perfect

Gu

There's no point in looking

Not a single one has a name

They're all anonymous soldiers

Their parents gave them names

How did they become nameless men?

Where is he?

Reporting, sir!

He's squatting over there

Er Dou

l've come to see you

Of course, why else would you come?

Easy does it, Flapjack

You know you're going blind

What if you fell into the river?Not so hard

Why didn't you tell me you were coming?

Not so hard, you'll choke me

Your troops are watching

What are you smiling at?

No smiling allowed

Yes, sir

Don't forget

This is my blood brother

Who is that?

Come over

Let me introduce you

Sun Guiqin

My Political Officer's wife

Hello

l'm Zhao Erdou

Hello

He's the Colonel l told you about

He's just like me, uneducated

ln artillery school, he could never sleep

He ended up getting kicked out

l applied to leave

Stop making things up!

She went to the County looking for her late husband

How could she find him if l couldn't?

l brought her here to ask for your help

l know you can help

How can l help?

She has a fever

Must have gotten sick from the rain

Hurry and help get her stuff

Zhao

Get the car

ls her temperature down?

lt's down

lt was over forty degrees

Scary

You haven't slept?

l dozed off

l had them make some noodles

What are you laughing at?

That's for the girl

But you didn't bother to ask if l'm hungry?

Take it

l'll order some more

lt's no big deal

Relax

l'm just messing with you

Flapjack

l came to ask for three favors

First get me another job transfer

l'm not going home

A retirement home for veterans

was built by the Wen River

Forget it

You can't stay in a place like that

lt'll turn you into a ghost

lf you don't want to go back home

Transfer your work papers here

You can stay with me

You're not my son!

Why should l stay with you?

You can be my godfather, okay?

A piece of that landmine is lodged in your skull

Sooner or later you'll go completely blind

What will you do then?

No more bullshit

Stay here

Stay with my regiment

Do whatever you want here

Look at your power

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