City of Life and Death

About City of Life and Death

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.

City of Life and Death is a 2009 history war film directed by Lu Chuan. Liu Ye takes the lead as Lu Jianxiong, Gao Yuanyuan as Miss Jiang, Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa, and John Paisley as John Rabe.

Released in April 2009, it runs 132 minutes. Written by Lu Chuan.

Members will find massacre, mass murder, war crimes, and japanese army in it. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 250 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Dead to Rights, The Last Emperor, and The Flowers of War make useful companions to City of Life and Death, all filed under 1930s, nanjing, and nanking massacre china 1937.