City of Life and Death

4/22/20092h 12min7.4/10(238 TMDB votes)

DramaHistoryWar

Directed by Lu Chuan

Plot

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.