May 6th, 2008 | Al Lagura |

I’m a big fan of Asia films, especially Koreans, Chinese and Japanese movies. Actually anything international films and historical films.. Since I watch a lot of em, I might as well share them here with you guys since you I have nothing else better to do. Is this what happens when you get older or you are becoming a loser, watching random films with subtitles?

Though labeled as a war epic, Assembly is not a war. It is a soldier’s story, how he managed to survives the war one after the other, and during the peace time, how he tried to dig out some inconvenient truth about the war, which everyone seams prefer to forget. The movie works because the story is not about a war but about the men who fought in the war.

The movie started in the winter of 1948, during the climate of the blood Chinese Civil War, which broke out shortly after the end of WWII. Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu), a captain of the communist Liberation Army, leads his 9th Company to sweep through a narrow street with an unknown number of Nationalist soldiers hiding inside ruined houses. Their call for the Nationalist to surrender is unanswered and Gu ordered his man to sneak in, not knowing they are working into a trap. Then the quiet street suddenly turns to hell. Rifles and machine guns start firing, pre-planted dynamites are ignited and an artillery starts shelling on the crowd. They push hard, enemies shooters are terminated one by one, and by the time the cannon is knocked out, the Nationalist soldiers finally decide to surrender.

Assembly (Chinese: 集结号; pinyin: Ji jie hao; literally “Assembly (bugle call)”) is a 2007 Chinese war-drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang, and starring Zhang Hanyu. It was first released in December 2007 in Mainland China. The film is one of the first few movie made in the mainland with realistic portrayal of the Chinese Civil War. The movie is an adaption of the original novel “Guan Si” which is based on a real account on veteran army captain upholding his company honor.

If you need a download link, post or email me and Ill send it via email.