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. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Release Date City of Life and Death May 11, 2011 Limited
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Actors For City of Life and Death

Ye Liu,Gao Yuanyuan,Hideo Nakaizumi,Wei Fan,Jiang Yiyan,Ryu Kohata,Liu Bin,John Paisley,Beverly Peckous,Qin Lan,Sam Voutas,Yao Di,Zhao Yisui,Yuko Miyamoto,Yuanyuan Gao

Genres City of Life and Death : Art House & International,Drama

Visitor Ranting & Critics For City of Life and Death

User Ranting City of Life and Death : 4.1
User Percentage For City of Life and Death : 84 %
User Count Like for City of Life and Death : 3,218
All Critics Ranting For City of Life and Death : 8.4
All Critics Count For City of Life and Death : 47
All Critics Percentage For City of Life and Death : 91 %

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Movie Overview For City of Life and Death
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

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Review For City of Life and Death

It is not an easy film, and perhaps a touch too relentless, but it is a great reminder of how bloody, mad and awful this world can be.
Tom Long-Detroit News

Lu Chuan makes this feature film soar by telling the story both through the eyes of the Japanese occupiers and the defenseless Chinese civilians in the ancient capital. It makes the savagery all the more senseless.
David Lewis-San Francisco Chronicle

In almost any form, the story of the Nanking atrocities can leave you profoundly shaken. But Lu Chuan's version may be the most compassionate and emotionally satisfying treatment to date.
John Hartl-Seattle Times

Here, in bloodless miniature, is the true obscenity of war.
Peter Rainer-Christian Science Monitor

Lu tells the heartbreaking, nearly unbearable story with compassion, controlled fury and unflinching realism.
Colin Covert-Minneapolis Star Tribune

It's a film strong enough to change your life, if you can bear to watch it at all.
Kenneth Turan-Los Angeles Times

Reminiscent of exactly the sort of "important war movie" Hollywood makes.
Dan Jardine-Cinemania

...among the greatest war films ever made. Rich in humanist themes and absolutely unflinching in its depiction of the moral chaos and physical violence of war.
Jay Antani-Cinema Writer

City of Life and Death puts a convincing image to the abstract history.
Sean Axmaker-Turner Classic Movies Online

City of Life and Death's surface is harrowingly beautiful, but it doesn't provide enough ground to glide along for over two hours.
Michael Nordine-Slant Magazine

Exquisitely shot in black and white, with a rare attention to detail and dramatic complexity, "City of Life and Death" is a timelessly great film that commands our collective attention.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There is real beauty in its effort to comprehend the incomprehensible.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Chinese filmmaker Chuan Lu has tackled a vast and ambitious subject in City of Life and Death. I knew very little about the siege on Nanjing (or Nanking, as Westerners have long referred to it) in 1937; I feel as if I understand it now, in all...
Leonard Maltin-Leonard Maltin's Picks

Despite a puzzling, ridiculously benign view of Japanese sex slaves, this is a brutal depiction of the bestiality of the Japanese Rape of Nanjing that is long overdue.
Tony Medley-Tolucan Times

There is no way to soften the events presented, even though Lu spares us some documented atrocities that are as bad or worse than what we see. The result is both moving and exhausting.
Andy Klein-Brand X

A work of grim art told with relentlessly restless curiosity about the human capacity for survival.
Burl Burlingame-Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The most visceral war film since Saving Private Ryan - a portrait of the hopeless in the grasp of a sadistic oppressor.
Tom Meek-Boston Phoenix