New TV series ‘The Narrow Road to Deep North” portrays harrowing journey of Allied prisoner of war on Burma-Thailand railway. The series adapted Richard Flanagan’s novel about his time as Australian army doctor that are rich in portraying wartime horrors…
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“The globally popular US streaming platform Netflix announced its plans to adapt the Chinese literature classic Water Margin on Friday. Netflix called the book one of the “the greatest classic novels of Chinese literature” on Twitter”
“Chinese war film Sacrifice kicked off with a heroic start on Friday both in terms of box-office revenue and word of mouth in China, which is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) entry into the War to Resist…
Ranging from Chinese Korean War films to detained South Koreans, here are a selection of recent news articles related to North Korea. Global Times: “Several Chinese-made Korean War film and TV productions underway, scheduled for 2021” Korean Times: “Government in…
“Now, after more than a decade in limbo, the film, “Spirits’ Homecoming,” will continue filming next month. Mr. Cho, who has made two feature films and about 200 commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films, plans to release it by…
“In a new documentary, Russian journalist and television presenter Sergei Brilyov gives evidence that in August 1945, Soviet troops liberated the entire Korean peninsula, not just the North as previously thought.”
“Ban Zhongyi, a Chinese journalist living in Japan, still remembers the shock he felt when he first heard the testimonies of former Chinese “comfort women” at a rally in Tokyo in 1992.”