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2009 · China, Hong Kong SAR China

City of Life and Death

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
132 min
Age rating
R
Language
Chinese
Country
China, Hong Kong SAR China
Violence
Strong

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
  • In Chinese — subtitles on.

The story

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.

  • war crimes
  • mass murder
  • war victim
  • second sino-japanese war (1937-45)
  • massacre
  • japanese army
  • duringcreditsstinger
  • imperial japan
  • nanking massacre china 1937
  • 1930s

The bill

Directed
Lu Chuan
Written
Lu Chuan

Production

Rating
7.4 / 10 · 245 ratings
Studio
Media Asia Films, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting, Chuan Production Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation