City of Life and Death
(2009)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 248 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 132 мин
Country: China, Hong Kong
Director: 陆川
Cast: 刘烨, 高圆圆, 中泉英雄, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous, 范偉, Цинь Лань, Ryu Kohata, 江一燕, Yao Di
Plot
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.