City of Life and Death (2009)

04/22/2009 (CN) • 2h 12m

Drama, History, War

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Liu Ye

Lu Jianxiong

Gao Yuanyuan

Miss Jiang

John Paisley

John Rabe

Beverly Peckous

Minnie Vautrin

Fan Wei

Mr. Tang

Qin Lan

Mrs. Tang

Ryu Kohata

Officer Osamu Ida

Jiang Yiyan

'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$12,000,000.00

Revenue

$10,652,498.00

Keywords

war crimes

mass murder

war victim

second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

massacre

japanese army

duringcreditsstinger

imperial japan

nanking massacre china 1937

1930s

nanjing

japanese occupation of china

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