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City of Life and Death

20092h 12mDrama · History · War

Released

April 22, 2009

7.4

TMDB Score

74% match · 250 votes

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About the Movie

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DramaHistoryWar

Synopsis

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.

DirectorLu Chuan

Released: April 22, 2009
Runtime: 2h 12m
Status: Released
Original language: Chinese
Budget: $12.0M
Box office: $10.7M
Studios: Media Asia Films, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting

Top Billed Cast

Liu Ye

Lu Jianxiong

Gao Yuanyuan

Miss Jiang

Hideo Nakaizumi

Kadokawa

John Paisley

John Rabe

Beverly Peckous

Minnie Vautrin

Fan Wei

Mr. Tang

Qin Lan

Mrs. Tang

Ryu Kohata

Officer Osamu Ida

Jiang Yiyan

'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun

Yao Di

'May' Zhou Xiaomei

Yisui Zhao

Shunzi

Sam Voutas

Durdin

Aisling Dunne

Doctor

Junichi Kajioka

Mr. Tomita

Asano Nagahide

Higashiguchi

Yuko Miyamoto

Yuriko

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