
City of Life and Death
A harrowing, unflinching immersion into atrocity, shot in stark black and white, that weighs heavily on the soul.
- Directed by
- Lu Chuan
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Starring
- Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Lu Chuan
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Starring
- Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi












