City of Life and Death(2009)

movie - first aired/released 2009-04-22 - 132 min - audience 7.4

Drama, History, War

Directed by Lu Chuan

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.