City of Life and Death (2009)

2009 · 132 min · Drama, History, War

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

Directed by Lu Chuan. Starring Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley and Beverly Peckous.

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