Movie
City of Life and Death
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-04-22
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Media Asia Films, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting, Chuan Production Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation
- Country
- China, Hong Kong
- Original language
- ZH
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 'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
- Yao Di as 'May' Zhou Xiaomei
- Yisui Zhao as Shunzi
- Sam Voutas as Durdin
Crew
- Lu Chuan - Director
- Lu Chuan - Writer
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