City of Life and Death (2009)
Original title: 南京!南京!
City of Life and Death is a 2009 Chinese-language drama movie directed by Lu Chuan, with a running time of 2h 12m. It stars Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan and Hideo Nakaizumi.
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.
Where to watch City of Life and Death
Watch free: Kanopy
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