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City of Life and Death: Directed by Chuan Lu. With Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Wei Fan, Lan Qin. In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
After some commanders of the National Revolutionary Army flee Nanking, a Chinese soldier Lieutenant Lu Jianxiong (Liu Ye) and his comrade-in-arms Shunzi (Gao Yuanyuan) attempt to stop a group of deserting troops from leaving the city, but as they exit the gates, they are captured by Japanese forces that have surrounded the city.
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CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH is a masterpiece - of film making, of finding the midline of response to war from both sides, of cautiously but successfully blending intimate stories with the gory atrocities of war, and of recreating a period of history we too soon forget unless prodded by works such as this.
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Español (México) Home. City of Life and Death (2009) R | Drama, History, War.
Director Chuan Lu received online death threats to both himself and his family on the strength of this. The atrocities are referred to as the Nanking Massacre in China. However, in Japan it is the "Nanking Incident".
May 7, 2009. Canada. September 11, 2009 (Toronto International Film Festival) Spain. September 21, 2009 (San Sebastián Film Festival) Greece. September 23, 2009 (Athens Film Festival) 27 more.
A Matter of Life and Death: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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