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''Assembly'' is a 2007 Chinese war film written by Liu Heng and directed by Feng Xiaogang. It starred Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao, Yuan Wenkang, Tang Yan, Wang Baoqiang, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Ren Quan and Li Naiwen. The film, ostensibly portraying an anti-war theme, was first released on 20 December 2007. It won the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards and the 2009 Golden Rooster Awards for Best Film. ==Plot== The story begins in 1948 during the Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War. Gu Zidi, a PLA captain, commands his 9th Company in siege to a town defended by NRA forces. The company captures the town despite sustaining heavy casualties in an ambush. After witnessing his political commissar being brutally killed by an enemy field gun operator, Gu orders the surrendering NRA prisoners-of-war to be shot, but his command is met mainly with refusal. Gu is imprisoned as punishment. He quickly befriends his cellmate, Wang Jincun, an army teacher and pacifist who is jailed for showing cowardice on the battlefield. Gu's superior, Colonel Liu Zeshui, soon sends Gu and his remaining 46 men off on a new assignment: to defend to the last man (with limited resources) the regiment's flank — an old mine on the south bank of the Wen River — and to not retreat until he hears the bugle call for assembly with the regiment. Gu also receives permission to take Wang as his new political commissar. Just as the 48-man company fortifies the position, the NRA forces suddenly attack with superior artillery, infantry and tanks. The 9th Company fiercely fends off two waves of enemy assault, while Gu orders the dead and wounded to be carried into the mine. Only a handful of Gu's men are left alive when the mortally wounded adjutant officer claims that he heard the bugle call in the distance. The others say they also heard the bugle, but Gu, who has been temporarily deafened by multiple explosions, is reluctant to believe them because he did not hear it himself. Gu feels that he is duty-bound and resolves to stay behind. His remaining men are moved by his resolution and decide to follow him and fight to the death. Some time later, Gu wakes up in an army hospital and realises he is the sole survivor. He tries to find his regiment but is unable to because the army's unit structure has been changed while he was in a coma. He cannot prove that he participated in the battle and is scorned by others, who think that he is a deserter. Guilt-ridden, Gu goes on to fight in the Korean War as a foot soldier and is wounded by a landmine after saving his platoon commander, Zhao Erdou, during a spotting mission. At the end of the conflict, he recovers and returns to the old battlefield, determined to restore glory to his lost men, only to find the mine reactivated and the old entrance buried under a ton of coal. He encounters Wang Jincun's widow and Zhao Erdou during his search and convinces them to marry. With Zhao's help, Gu uncovers records of his old regiment and finds his way to Liu Zeshui's tomb. The tomb keeper turns out to be his regiment's bugler, and he tells Gu that the assembly call was never sounded during the battle at the Wen River. Gu's company was sacrificed to hold off the NRA forces so that Liu and the rest of the regiment could retreat. Gu flies into a rage and starts hurling abuse at Liu's tombstone but calms down later. Gu realises that he is now his company's sole surviving witness. He camps out in a mining hut near the old battlefield and starts to dig at the huge coal pile daily with a pick and shovel, despite protests from the miners. A month into his ordeal, the remains of the old regiment's political commissar is found, and the men are finally honoured through an official notice, but Gu remains inconsolable because he cannot find the remaining bodies. Gu experiences a flashback of the battle: He and a critically wounded Wang were the only survivors. After they dragged the last of the dead bodies into the mine, Gu ordered Wang to blow up the mine to prevent the enemy from capturing the corpses. Wang carried out this order before he died. Gu was knocked unconscious in a final cannon shootout with enemy tanks. Years later, the remains of Gu's men are revealed when excavations for an irrigation project are conducted at the old site of the mine. A large monument is erected and a military funeral is held for Gu's men. Gu finally finds peace. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assembly (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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