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.

Country

China, Hong Kong

Genre

Drama, History, War

Released

22 Apr 2009

Cast

Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley