City of Life and Death
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.
- Year : 2009
- Country : China, Hong Kong
- Genre : Drama, History, War
- Studio : China Film Group Corporation, Media Asia, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting, Chuan Production Film Studio
- Keyword : war crimes, mass murder, war victim, second sino-japanese war (1937-45), massacre, japanese army, duringcreditsstinger, imperial japan, nanking massacre china 1937, 1930s, nanjing, japanese occupation of china
- Director : Lu Chuan
- Cast : Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous, Fan Wei