Red Cliff is a 2008-09 Chinese epic war film, based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (AD 208–209) and the events at the end of the Han dynasty and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. The film was directed by John Woo, and stars Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun and Lin Chi-ling . It is Woo's first major film since 2003's Paycheck[8] and his first Chinese-language feature since 1992's Hard Boiled,[9] also starring Leung.In China and much of Asia, Red Cliff was released in two parts.
The first part of the film grossed US$124 million in Asia[12] and broke the box office record previously held by Titanic in mainland China.
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