City of Life and Death

Directed by Lu Chuan

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.

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

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