City of Life and Death
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4/22/2009Runtime
132 minsOverview
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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A harrowing immersion into the horrors of the Nanking Massacre, presented with unflinching historical gravity that privileges human dignity even in depicting atrocity. This is demanding, necessary cinema that does not look away.
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