(Yicai Global) Oct.04 -- Historical epic "The Battle at Lake Changjin" continued to dominate the Chinese mainland box office yesterday, data from the China Movie Data Information Network showed. Xinhua reported today.

Co-directed by Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam, the film raked in over CNY467 million (about USD72.48 million) on its fourth day of screening.

With daily revenues of over CNY400 million for three days in a row since Oct.1, the first day of China's National Day holiday, the film's cumulative ticket sales exceeded CNY1.5 billion as of yesterday.

Set in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953) and headlined by Wu Jing and Jackson Yee, the film tells the story of the Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers fighting bravely under freezing temperatures in a key campaign at Lake Changjin, or Chosin Reservoir.

Coming in second on the daily sales chart was patriotic anthology "My Country, My Parents," which pocketed nearly CNY150 million yesterday.

Editor: Liao Shumin