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City of Life and Death

Cast

Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley View All

Crew

Lu Chuan (Director), Lu Chuan (Writer) View All

Release: Apr. 22nd, 2009

Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes

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.

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ScarletLion
He actually received many death threats for portraying the Japanese character Kadokawa so sympathetically, which is extremely harsh given how the Japanese army and government is portrayed throughout the rest of the film.

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