Film
City of Life and Death
2009 · 2h 12m · Drama · History · War
- IMDb
- 7.7
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 92%
- Metacritic
- 85
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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.
Cast
Liu Ye
Lu Jianxiong
Gao Yuanyuan
Miss Jiang
Hideo Nakaizumi
Kadokawa
John Paisley
John Rabe
Beverly Peckous
Minnie Vautrin
Fan Wei
Mr. Tang
Qin Lan
Mrs. Tang
Ryu Kohata
Officer Osamu Ida
Jiang Yiyan
'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
Yao Di
'May' Zhou Xiaomei
Yisui Zhao
Shunzi
Sam Voutas
Durdin
Aisling Dunne
Doctor
Junichi Kajioka
Mr. Tomita
Asano Nagahide
Higashiguchi
Yuko Miyamoto
Yuriko
Crew
- Lu ChuanDirector · Writer
- Han SanpingProducer
- Qin HongProducer
- Andy ZhangProducer
- John ChongProducer
- Li ZhouProducer
- Du YangProducer
- Cao YuDirector of Photography
- Liu TongOriginal Music Composer
- Yun TengEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 22, 2009
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $10,652,498
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
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