Eight Hundred Heroes

For the historical event the film is based on, see Defense of Sihang Warehouse. For other uses, see 800 Heroes (disambiguation).

Eight Hundred Heroes
Film poster
Directed byTing Shan-hsi
Written byTing Shan-hsi
StarringKo Chun-hsiung
Hsu Feng
Brigitte Lin
Chin Han
CinematographyWenjin Lin
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguageMandarin

Eight Hundred Heroes (traditional Chinese: 八百壯士; simplified Chinese: 八百壮士; pinyin: Bābǎi zhuàngshì) is a 1976 Taiwanese historical war drama film directed by Ting Shan-hsi 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.[1]

  1. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences