City of Life and Death
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2009-04-22
Runtime: 132 mins
Director: Lu Chuan
Writer: Lu Chuan
Spoken language: Deutsch, 普通话, 日本語, English
Genres: Drama, History, War
Original title: City of Life and Death
Production Companies: China Film Group Corporation, Media Asia Films, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting, Chuan Production Film Studio
Production Countries: China, Hong Kong
Cast
Liu Ye
Gao Yuanyuan
Hideo Nakaizumi
John Paisley
Beverly Peckous
Fan Wei
Qin Lan
Ryu Kohata
Jiang Yiyan
Yao Di
Yisui Zhao
Sam Voutas
Aisling Dunne
Junichi Kajioka
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