Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 146 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
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
- rape
- china
- based on novel or book
- brothel
- based on true story
- atrocity
- prostitution
- forced prostitution
- nanking massacre china 1937
- 1930s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Han Xiting — Yi
- Zhang Doudou — Ling
- Tong Dawei — Major Li
- Cao Kefan — Mr. Meng
- Atsuro Watabe — Colonel Hasegawa
- Yuan Yangchunzi — Mosquito
- Sun Jia — Hua
- Li Yuemin — Dou
- Bai Xue — Lan
- Takashi Yamanaka — Lieutenant Asakura
- Shigeo Kobayashi — Lieutenant Kato
- Directed
- Zhang Yimou
- Written
- Liu Heng, Yan Geling
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 919 ratings
- Studio
- New Picture Company, Beijing New Picture Film Co. Ltd., EDKO Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
