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.
Released: 2009-04-22
Runtime: 132 minutes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Stars: Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous
Director: Han Sanping, John Chong, Lu Chuan, Lu Chuan, Tong Liu