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Eight Hundred Heroes is a taiwanais film of genre Drama with Stanley Fung
Eight Hundred Heroes (1975)
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Add to a movie listEight Hundred Heroes () is a 1977 Taiwanese drama film directed by Shan-hsi Ting about the Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai, China. The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Actors
Stanley Fung
Ko Chun-hsiung
(Hsieh Chin Yuan)
Xu Feng
(Ling Weicheng, Xie's wife)
Sylvia Chang
(Tzu Ni)
Carter Wong
(Mr Wang)
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