The Crossing (Chinese: 太平轮) is a two-part 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical romance-war drama (part 1) and disaster film (part 2) directed by John Woo and writt by Hui-Ling Wang.
The incidt led to the deaths of over 1, 500 passgers and crew. The film's first part was released in China on December 2, 2014. Part two was released on July 30, 2015.
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In a battle betwe the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria during World War II, Major geral Lei Yifang (Huang Xiaoming) personally leads an attack over the objections of his subordinates. The charge overruns Japanese lines and wins the day; Dr. Y Zekun (Takeshi Kaneshiro), an ethnic Chinese field medic conscripted into the Japanese army from th-Japanese Taiwan, is captured. Lei is promoted to lieutant geral, while Dr. Y is shipped off to a prison camp in Fgtian. On the POW train, Y reads a letter from his Japanese paramour Masako (Masami Nagasawa).
A few years later during the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, Yu Zh (Zhang Ziyi), a poor, illiterate young woman volunteers as an orderly at a Nationalist hospital in Shanghai. She dreams of reuniting with her boyfrid Yang Tianhu, who is off fighting the Communists. Meanwhile, Geral Lei catches the eye of wealthy debutante Zhou Yunf (Song Hye-kyo) at a charity evt put on by her father Zhou Zhongding and mother Yuan Shglan. Despite her mother's warnings not to accept the atttion of soldiers, she dances with Lei, their chemistry obvious for the tire room to see; months later, they marry.
The next year, Yu Zh meets signal corps sergeant Tong Daqing outside of the same photography studio Lei and Zhou used for their wedding. Sergeant Tong has hired Yu and a borrowed baby to have a photograph tak together as a family as proof of marriage, which would provide his parts at home with more food rations. After they take the photos, a studt anti-war protest in front of the studio is violtly dispersed by police and soldiers. During the chaos, Dr. Y ters the photography studio, prests separate photos of himself and Masako, and asks the proprietor to create an altered photo that will make it look like he and her were in a photo together.
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Tong and Yu take refuge in a noodle shop, where Tong talks about why he joined the army. Yu asks about the Republic of China Army's soldier idtification numbers. Tong tells her that as long as she knows his ID number, she will be able to find him, dead or alive. She smiles, thinking of her lover, but Tong misinterprets this as her having feelings for him. Tong, late for his departure, boards a truck with the rest of his unit and tells Yu to memorize his unit number. Yu returns to the photography studio and orders a copy of the picture of her with Tong and their baby.
Zhou, now pregnant, tells Geral Lei that she has reservations about his plans to sd her away to Taiwan. He quiets her fears, though she asks him not to see her off out of superstition. Zhou's parts see her and her sister off on the Taiping, along with many of Shanghai's elite. Zhou has her cousin take a picture of her, capturing Lei in the background as he has come in secret to watch her departure before he leaves for the front.
Sergeant Tong is admiring his 'family portrait' wh his fellow troops notice how pretty his 'wife' is. They pass the photo around and list, rapt as Tong spins yarns about Yu. Meanwhile, Yu struggles to get employmt and is se eating discarded fruit and sleeping under a bridge.
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Dr. Y, who was on the Taiping with the Zhou sisters, disembarks with them at the Port of Keelung in Taiwan, where they are greeted with a military band and Nationalist flags lining the streets. He explains to an official that he was in Shanghai procuring medical supplies for his practice. The official, seeing that he is a native of Taiwan, asks where Y learned the Guānhuà he is conversing in instead of the local language, Taiwanese Hokki. After the questioning, Y meets his brother and returns to his family home. His mother, a midwife, is burning letters st to Y by Masako. Zhou arrives at a Japanese-style estate, where she is welcomed by A-man, the Taiwanese maid. She starts to p a letter to her husband.
Yu ters a boardinghouse in Shanghai. The landlady isn't looking to rt to single wom, but Yu says she is married, using the photo of her and Captain Tong as evidce, and Yu is granted a place to stay. She th gets a hometown acquaintance of hers to bring her to work as a dancing girl at a club. Her frid reads aloud a letter from Yu's boyfrid before a big battle some four months ago. Her frid advises Yu that her boyfrid may be dead by now, and that romance won't keep her fed. Upon arriving at the dance club, they find that the city governmt has shut down the club in order to conserve ergy for the war effort. The dancing girls, now out of work, protest but are roughly treated by baton-wielding police. Yu escapes from the fracas and starts a career of prostitution to secure ough money to travel to Taiwan in hopes of finding her missing lover. The drunk johns are noisy and wak the rest of the boardinghouse.
Lei's 12th Army is nearing circlemt during the Huaihai Campaign, and their supply lines have be cut. He orders a breakout towards Yongchg, but an order comes in countermanding him to hold his position. He angrily goes to his headquarters, where his commanding geral tells him that two rect breakout efforts have badly failed, likely due to the People's Liberation Army getting wind of the plans. Lei lamts how he has returned to the same battlegrounds he fought on against the Japanese, only this time his m were dying against their countrym instead of against foreign invaders.
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Back in Taiwan, Zhou goes to replace a painting in her music room with one of her wedding day. In doing so, she discovers Masako's diary along with some original sheet music, revealing that this house is the one once occupied by Masako. While mediating a dispute betwe A-man and her manservant, Zhou collapses, bitt on the ankle by a snake. She is rushed to a doctor, who happs to be Y. Zhou recognizes his name from the painting Masako's diary was concealed behind.
Zhou asks Dr. Y to meet in private, and they do so at a lighthouse. She shows him Masako's diary, expressing that she wants to use Masako's sheet music as the beginning of the song she wants to write for her husband Lei. Zhou asks Y to tell her about Masako for inspiration, thus starting a fridship anchored by their shared longing for a distant beloved. Y explains he met Masako as they were both artists, and that his mother sold Masako's mother the piano now belonging to Zhou after his father's death. His mother and the other local Taiwanese never much approved of his relationship with Masako, as she was one of the colonizers.
Sergeant Tong is pning a letter to Yu in the trches wh Geral Lei comes by and asks Tong to help fix his radio. After Tong succeeds in doing so, the two bond over their family photos.
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In the Communist camp, the local populace arrives with food and supplies for the soldiers, whose morale is greatly increased. At the same time, the Nationalist soldiers are starving. Unable to see his soldiers suffer, Geral Lei shoots his own warhorse for meat. Sergeant Tong, out on patrol with an listed soldier local to the area, shoots a rabbit but finds himself held at gunpoint by a Communist soldier. They manage to come to a truce, and the three of them eat the rabbit.
The Nationalists are subject to propaganda blaring from the Communist trches, which also serves to cover the sounds of Communist sappers tunneling through the trches. Lei, angry, rouses his troops and sds Tong off to figure out why the 108th Division has be incommunicado. Tong and his listed companion drive down the wire, stopping to connect their phone and try the 108th, which does not answer. Communist geral Liu Zhiqing, an old acquaintance of Lei's, arrives at Lei's command post for a parley. He advises Lei to surrder, but Lei refuses.
Tong runs into a checkpoint guarded by the 108th Division and realizes that they have defected to the Communists. He convinces them not to kill him or hold him hostage, quickly returning to the rest of the 12th Army. Wh he goes to make his report, his companion, who has also defected, holds