City of Life and Death
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- Movie: Nanking Nanking / City of Life and Death
- Chinese: 南京！南京！
- Director: Chuan Lu
- Writer: Chuan Lu
- Producer: Steffen Wild, Jie Ren. Song Xing. Sanping Han, Chuan Lu
- Cinematography: Yu Cao
- Release Date: April 22, 2009
- Runtime: 132 min.
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
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, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were killed.
The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
Cast
- Ye Liu - Lu Jianxiong
- Yuanyuan Gao - Miss Jiang
- Hideo Nakaizumi - Kadokawa
- Ryu Kohata - Ida
- Bin Liu - Shunzi
- Zhuangzhuang Tian
- Wei Fan - Mr. Tang
- Lan Qin - Mrs. Tang
- Yiyan Jiang - Xiao Jiang
- John Paisley - John Rabe
- Di Yao - Tang Xiaomei
- Yisui Zhao - Shunzi
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Film Festivals
- 2009 (34th) Toronto International Film Festival - September 10th-19th - Special Presentations
- 2009 (14th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 8th-16th - A Window on Asian Cinema
- 2009 (24th) Mar del Plata Film Festival - November 7th-15th
- 2010 (12th) Deauville Asian Film Festival - March 10th-14th - The Panorama/A Glace at the Work of Chuan Lu
- 2010 (12th) Udine Far East Film - April 23-May 1 *Italian Premiere
- 2012 (18th) Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema - February 14-21, 2012 - Thématique : Brûlures de l'histoire
Awards
- "Achievement in Cinematography" 2009 (3rd) Asia Pacific Screen Awards - November 26th
- "Achievement in Directing" 2009 (3rd) Asia Pacific Screen Awards - November 26th
- "Black Dragon Audience Award (2nd place)" - 2010 (12th) Udine Far East Film - April 23-May 1
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Chen2 Says:
Oct 07 2009 5:36 pm
I changed the previous Plot description, which was completely wrong and probably from another movie. Someone please look into this and attribute that description to the correct movie. I hate to lose it if it is legitimately from anther movie, since it was so detailed.
Parn Says:
Aug 03 2009 1:45 pm
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