City of Life and Death

Movie
Type
2009
Year
2h 12m
Runtime
★ 7.8
Rating
Drama / History / War
Genre

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.