City of Life and Death

Drama, History, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Lu Chuan

Status Released

Release Date 2009-04-22

Storyline

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.