City of Life and Death

2009

Chinese

7.7

♡ 17

92%

second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

Chuan Lu Director Ye Liu

Ye Liu as Lu Jianxiong

Hideo Nakaizumi as Sgt. Masao Kadokawa

Wang Kai as Tang family nanny

Yûko Miyamoto as Yuriko

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.