China Lion Film will release "Back to 1942," the latest pic by China's top helmer Feng Xiaogang, in North America on Nov. 30 as a day-and-date release with its Chinese mainland bow, the distrib said.

Pic is based on Liu Zhengyun's bestseller "Remembering 1942" and tells the grim tale of a famine that ravaged central Henan province while Nationalists and Japanese troops fought during WWII.

attached to: Liu Zhenyun