Momentum Pictures presents the dramatic, war-torn epic ESCAPE FROM HUANG SHI from the award-winning director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) released on DVD on 11 May 2009.
The outstanding cast includes Golden Globe® winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Mission Impossible III, Bend it Like Beckham), Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland, Phone Booth), Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dragon Ball), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha) and David Wenham (Australia, Lord of the Rings, 300).
ESCAPE FORM HUANG SHI is a brutal and compelling story based on true events that took place during the 2nd World War. In 1937 George Hogg (Rhys Meyers), a young English journalist travels to war ravaged China in search of the frontline and a big story. What he must overcome, he could not nearly of imagined. When the Japanese invade and massacre hundreds of innocent men, women and children in front of him, Hogg, barely escapes with his life. This brave young journalist then risks everything to lead sixty children, orphaned by the war, across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain on the Silk Road, fending off air and ground attacks by the Japanese invaders and Chinese Nationalist Movement.
Hogg is thrown together with an American nurse Lee Pearson (Mitchell) and Chen Hansheng the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances.
