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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Di Yao, Ryu Kohata, Yisui Zhao, Hideo Nakaizumi, Fan Wei, Beverly Peckous, Gao Yuanyuan, Yuko Miyamoto, Liu Ye, Junichi Kajioka, Lan Qin, Bin Liu ...MORE

Cast: Di Yao, Ryu Kohata, Yisui Zhao, Hideo Nakaizumi, Fan Wei, Beverly Peckous, Gao Yuanyuan, Yuko Miyamoto, Liu Ye, Junichi Kajioka, Lan Qin, Bin Liu, Yiyan Jiang, Sam Voutas, John Paisley ...LESS

Categories: Movies, War Film, Drama Film, Historical Film, Anti-War Film, Historical Epic, Anti-War, Period Piece, Black-And-White, History, World Cinema

City of Life and Death (Chinese: 南京! 南京!; pinyin: Nánjīng! Nánjīng!) is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan, marking his third feature film. The film deals with the Battle of Nanjing and its aftermath (commonly referred to as "The Rape of Nanking" or the "Nanking Massacre") during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film is also known as Nanking! Nanking! or Nanjing! Nanjing!. While originally slated for a 2008 release, the director-general of the Chinese Film Bureau announced in September that the film would be delayed to an early 2009 release. The film was eventually... MORE

City of Life and Death (Chinese: 南京! 南京!; pinyin: Nánjīng! Nánjīng!) is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan, marking his third feature film. The film deals with the Battle of Nanjing and its aftermath (commonly referred to as "The Rape of Nanking" or the "Nanking Massacre") during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film is also known as Nanking! Nanking! or Nanjing! Nanjing!. While originally slated for a 2008 release, the director-general of the Chinese Film Bureau announced in September that the film would be delayed to an early 2009 release. The film was eventually released on April 22, 2009 where it became a box-office success, earning RMB150m (approximately 20 million dollars) in its first two and a half weeks alone. City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the capital of the Republic of China, Nanking. What followed is now known as the Nanking Massacre, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were killed. After some KMT commanders of the National Revolutionary Army flee Nanking, a Chinese Nationalist KMT soldier, LESS