My War

Plot

The film begins when a train carrying weapons arrived in a station. The Art Troupe were grouped according to the blood type when the males aboard the arriving train mocked the women, until one of the women answered the group's Captain on the local dialect. Meanwhile, a town militia tried to steal weapons on the supply train but was caught. When the train leaves, he dodged the MPs and hopped on the train. The train was carrying troops of the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) to intervene in Korean War. As they arrive in Yalu River, the train was ambushed by American airstrikes and a fortified fortress, causing casualties on the new volunteers. Only on the tactics of their commander Sun Beichuan, they secured the fortress. Next, they were commanded to delay the US attack on a mountain pass, they suffered casualties before one of them detonated himself on the tank. But upon seeing another convoy, they retreated and commanded a father-and-son duo to plant and detonate explosives on the mountainside. The rubble ensued buried the convoy. The unit was honored for their effort. The unit was composed of PVA and some members of Art Troupe.

While entering an abandoned base, they looted it, but detonated booby traps, wounding some of them. One of them stumbled upon a mine, and the Captain saved her. As the soldiers escape, the Americans ambushed them, intending to take the women alive, Big Daddy sacrificed himself and Wenjun died. The girls, full of rage, threw grenades upon their enemies, but Captain Meng was wounded. They flee, while Big Daddy detonated grenades upon the chasing Americans. Days later, they were again tasked with taking some hills.

As the bombardment upon the American-occupied hills ends, they charged with human waves, suffered casualties, but after they placed artillery, they repelled the defenders.

Cast

Liu Ye as Sun Beichuan / Commander Sun

Wang Luodan as Meng Sanxia / Captain Meng

Huang Zhizhong as Li Shunliang

Tony Yang (credited as Yo Yang) as Zhang Luodong / Little Magician

Ye Qing as Wang Wenjun

Wang Longhua as Liu Shiwen

Guo Jinglin as Tian Yizhuo

Ji Xiaofei as Lao Ziwei

Huo Yijian as Lao Bangzi

Fu Hong as Da Wihu

Wang Qi as Da Fuzi / Big Axe

Lin Yanlin as Lin Meiyu

Liu Yingyi as Xiao Cao

Xu Jiaqi as Xiao Song

Ding Zenghui as Xiao Shanzi

Reception

The film grossed CN¥36.1 million at the Chinese box office.

The film was not well received in South Korea, and was considered controversial in mainland China, in part due to its promotional material, in which modern South Koreans were perceived as being disrespected. The controversial advertisement depicted a South Korean tour guide in Seoul, depicted as being ignorant of China's involvement in the Korean War, being bombastically lectured by patronizing elderly veterans of the film's depicted events, boasting of their involvement in the invasion of Korea and recommending the tour guide view the film so she might be better "educated" as to what they are taking about. Furthermore, the film was criticized for a lack of prominence of any Korean characters in the film despite its depiction of the Korean War. Prof. Lin Qi of Harbin Normal University was criticized the advertisement in the South China Morning Post, asking: “What would you feel if elderly Japanese group tourists come to Nanjing and say that they had visited the city during the Nanjing Massacre holding the Flag of the Rising Sun?” Zhao Hu, a Beijing-based lawyer, was also critical of the positioning of the war, stating: “We can see a nation has been divided into the North and the South, and countless Chinese died while benefiting three generations of family in North Korea. Are we still proud of that?”