DramaHistoryWar
City of Life and Death
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.
Directed by Lu Chuan
74
User score
244 votes
Status
Released
Released
April 22, 2009
Runtime
2h 12m
Language
German, Mandarin, Japanese, English
Budget → Revenue
$12M → $10.7M
Top 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
Kai Wang
Tang Family Nanny
Liu Bin
Xiao Dou
Wang Jiahui
Asano Nagahide
