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.
Director: Lu Chuan
Cast: Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley
Country: China, Hong Kong
Quality: HD
Runtime: 132 min.
Release: 2009
IMDb: 7.4/10