City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death

2h 12m 2009 Drama, History, War China, Hong Kong
Budget: $12,000,000 Revenue: $10,652,498

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.

Director

Lu Chuan

Writer

Lu Chuan