City of Life and Death (2009)

Movie · Drama, History, War · 2h 12m · Rated 7.4/10 on TMDB · Released April 22, 2009

Overview

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.

Directed by Lu Chuan

Cast

• Liu Ye as Lu Jianxiong
• Gao Yuanyuan as Miss Jiang
• Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa
• John Paisley as John Rabe
• Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin
• Fan Wei as Mr. Tang
• Qin Lan as Mrs. Tang
• Ryu Kohata as Officer Osamu Ida
• Jiang Yiyan as 'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
• Yao Di as 'May' Zhou Xiaomei
• Yisui Zhao as Shunzi
• Sam Voutas as Durdin

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