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.

Country:

China,

Hong Kong

Genre:

Drama,

History,

War

Duration:

132 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Lu Chuan

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Company:

China Film Group Corporation,

Media Asia Films,

Stellar Megamedia,

Jiangsu Broadcasting,

Chuan Production Film Studio

Budget:

$12,000,000

Revenue:

$10,652,498

Cast:
Liu Ye

Lu Jianxiong

Gao Yuanyuan

Miss Jiang

Hideo Nakaizumi

Kadokawa

John Paisley

John Rabe

Beverly Peckous

Minnie Vautrin

Crew:
Steffen Wild

Consulting Producer

Isabelle Glachant

Associate Producer

Wang Rong

Costume Supervisor

Qizhen Lai

Sound

Tong Liu

Original Music Composer