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Call of Heroes
Set in 1914 following the collapse of the Qing dynasty (1916-1928), the film follows the soldiers from a village as they seek vengeance after a warlord kills innocent people while they are away.
27 December 1978, Shandong, China
16 February 1964, Hong Kong
26 October 1966, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
3 April 1974, Beijing, China
6 October 1977, Hubei, China
24 March 1982, Taipei, Taiwan
October 26, 1966 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
12 December 1960, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
August 18, 2016
Benny Chan's best film in years - a Chinese wuxia epic with obvious echoes to classic spaghetti Western films and Akira Kurosawa's samurai dramas like Seven Samurai and Yojimbo.March 09, 2017
This is real old school action drama, the kind of Hong Kong movie that wears its heart on its sleeve and tends to wave it around with utterly sincere speeches about justice and duty.January 05, 2017
Chan has delivered a film that is consistently entertaining and will leave Western audiences, at least, looking forward to seeing what he does next.August 17, 2016
When so many period Chinese blockbusters are all about fancy -- and more often than not, unconvincing -- special effects, it is refreshing to watch one that uses good, old-fashioned action stunts.August 17, 2016
Sergio Leone's specter looms large over Call of Heroes, a film oozing nihilist violence on par with the bloodiest scenes in any of those spaghetti Westerns that have long informed Hong Kong's wuxia cinema.