City of Life and Death (2009)

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.

Director

Lu Chuan

Writers

Lu Chuan

Themes1930sduringcreditsstingerimperial japanjapanese armyjapanese occupation of chinamassacremass murdernanjingnanking massacre china 1937second sino-japanese war (1937-45)