Fresh
It is not an easy film, and perhaps a touch too relentless, but it is a great reminder of how bloody, mad and awful this world can be.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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.
Director and cast
- Lu Chuan Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Lu Chuan makes this feature film soar by telling the story both through the eyes of the Japanese occupiers and the defenseless Chinese civilians in the ancient capital. It makes the savagery all the more senseless.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Exquisitely shot in black and white, with a rare attention to detail and dramatic complexity, "City of Life and Death" is a timelessly great film that commands our collective attention.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
In almost any form, the story of the Nanking atrocities can leave you profoundly shaken. But Lu Chuan's version may be the most compassionate and emotionally satisfying treatment to date.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
Here, in bloodless miniature, is the true obscenity of war.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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