City of Life and Death

Name: City of Life and Death
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 2009-04-22
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous

Kanopy (Free)

7.4(233 votes)

2009

2h 12m

DramaHistoryWar

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Overview

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.