City of Life and Death
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2hrs
12mins
Directed by
Lu Chuan,
Starring
Ye Liu,
Gao Yuanyuan,
Hideo Nakaizumi,
John Paisley
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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.