南京! 南京! City of Life and Death (Chinese)
July 12, 2009
I didn’t like it. Though it may be accurate, and it portrays both the human brutality and humanity in war, just like the gloomy media it is presented on, the film is so depressing. I felt frustrated in that those I considered lead characters never fulfilled their lives. It’s so sad that you can’t even get yourself to hate.
I’m dousing my sadness with happier films. What you watch gets into what feel, think and do.
The movie’s good, but it’s terrible.
On my rating system, it gets three stars of five.
By the way, just as I expected it, the film got a rocky start in the People’s Republic. Many Chinese hate WWII films that sympathize with the Japanese.
南京! 南京! (Nánjīng! Nánjīng!) / City of Life and Death
Directed by Lu Chuan
Produced by Lu Chuan, Han Sanping, John Chong
Film (Mandarin Chinese & Japanese)
CAST
Liu Ye as Lu Jianxiong
Gao Yuanyuan as Jiang Shuyun
Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa
Fan Wei as Mr. Tang
Jiang Yiyan as Xiao Jiang
Ryu Kohata as Ida
Liu Bin as Shunzi
John Paisley as John Rabe
Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin
Qin Lan as Mrs. Tang
Sam Voutas as Durdin
Yao Di as Tang Xiaomei
Zhao Yisui as Shunzi
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, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered. 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.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124052/
TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=133e5QxaSsI
TORRENT: http://www.avistaz.com/movies/2009/city-of-life-and-death-chinese-2009.html
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