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.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Starring: Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous
Directed & Produced by: Han Sanping, John Chong, Lu Chuan, Lu Chuan, Tong Liu
Release date: 4/22/2009
Running time: 132 minutes
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 by 103 users