City of Life and Death

2009

R

2h 12m

IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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History
War

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.

Directors

Writers

Lu Chuan(writer by)
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Liu Ye
Lu Jianxiong
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Gao Yuanyuan
Miss Jiang
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John Paisley
John Rabe
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Beverly Peckous
Minnie Vautrin
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Fan Wei
Mr. Tang
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Qin Lan
Mrs. Tang
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Ryu Kohata
Officer Osamu Ida
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Jiang Yiyan
'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
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Yao Di
'May' Zhou Xiaomei
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Junichi Kajioka
Mr. Tomita
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Asano Nagahide
Higashiguchi
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Kai Wang
Tang Family Nanny
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Liu Bin
Xiao Dou

Directors

Writers

Lu Chuan(writer by)

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Details

Release date

April 22, 2009 (United States)

Country of origin

China

Languages

German
Japanese
Mandarin
English

Production companies

China Film Group Corporation
Media Asia Films

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Box office

Budget

$12,000,000

Gross worldwide

$10,652,498

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