Is City of Life and Death (南京!南京!) right for your family?
Movie 2009 132 min
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.
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The title and synopsis indicate a historical drama focusing on a brutal war event and its aftermath.
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