City of Life and Death

2009

132 min

7.4

Ends at

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.

Budget

$12,000,000

Genre

Drama, History, War

Director

Lu Chuan

Country

China

Cast & Crew

Ye Liu

Gao Yuanyuan

Hideo Nakaizumi

John Paisley

Beverly Peckous

Fan Wei

Qin Lan

Ryu Kohata

Jiang Yiyan

Yao Di

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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.

  • Ye Liu

  • Gao Yuanyuan

  • Hideo Nakaizumi

  • John Paisley

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