The total investment for Aftershocks was 300 million, with Golden Harvest holding a seventy percent stake and the remaining thirty percent belonging to the Tangshan side.
Although the project was initiated by Tangshan, who specifically sought out Golden Harvest—or more precisely, Liu Zhou—Liu Zhou took control of the production to prevent the film from devolving into a formulaic, standard propaganda piece.
When Tangshan originally wanted to make this film, aside from commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the massive earthquake...
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