City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death

132 mins | Drama, War, History | April 22, 2009

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

City of Life and Death

132 mins | Drama, War, History | April 22, 2009

City of Life and Death
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Media Asia Films, China Film Group Corporation, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting System, Chuan Production Film Studio
Original title 南京!南京!
Directors Junichi Kajioka, Lu Chuan
Writers Lu Chuan

Cast

Liu Ye

as Lu Jianxiong

Gao Yuanyuan

as Miss Jiang

Hideo Nakaizumi

as Kadokawa

John Paisley

as John Rabe

Beverly Peckous

as Minnie Vautrin

Fan Wei

as Mr. Tang

Qin Lan

as Mrs. Tang

Ryu Kohata

as Officer Osamu Ida

Jiang Yiyan

as Jiang Xiang Jun / Xiao Jiang

Yao Di

as Zhou Xiaomei / May

Yisui Zhao

as Shunzi

Bin Liu

as Xiao Douzi (Juvenile)

Sam Voutas

as Durdin

Aisling Dunne

as Doctor

Junichi Kajioka

as Mr. Tomita

Asano Nagahide

as Higashiguchi

Yuko Miyamoto

as Yuriko

Wang Kai

as Tang Family Nanny