City of Life and Death

Year: 2009

Runtime: 132 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Lu Chuan

Budget: $12M

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Set in 1937 during the Second Sino‑Japanese War, it follows the Imperial Japanese Army’s capture of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China. The story depicts the six‑week Nanking Massacre—also called the Rape of Nanking—when tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were brutally killed, revealing the horror of the occupation.

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