Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese city on December 9, 1937, and in the six weeks to follow, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Director Lu Chuan directs .. Read more
| Starring | Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi |
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| Director | Chuan Lu |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
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Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese city on December 9, 1937, and in the six weeks to follow, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Director Lu Chuan directs this black-and-white docudrama account of that horrifying six-week period, with the benefit of an ensemble cast that includes Hideo Nakaizumi as a conscience-stricken Japanese soldier, Fan Wei as the aid to a German humanitarian worker, and Gao Yuanyuan as the head of a refugee camp. Lu relays the events directly and straightforwardly, with a careful avoidance of sensationalism and excessive sentimentality, and uses the chronicle to meditate on the insanity of war for all of those involved.
| Starring | Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi |
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| Director | Chuan Lu |
| Studio | HIGH FLIERS |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 12 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Mandarin Blu-ray: Mandarin |
| Subtitles | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 2009 To Rent: DVD: 30 Aug 2010 Blu-ray: 30 Aug 2010 |
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A Balanced Portrail of a Terrible Event
Usually with any wartime film or docudrama you only get a one sided view, however with this excellent piece of work you are able to witness the terrible events ... read more »
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Could not watch it
The victory march by the Japanese soldiers was the best of the bits that I managed to watch. A bit gruesome otherwise.
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good film, bad encoding
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The grim reality of war
A shocking indictment of the Japanese past and a shocking indictment of human beings in general this brutal telling of the Nanking massacres and invasion is an ... read more »
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