Release Date: Oct. 25, 2011
Price: 2-disc DVD $29.95, 2-disc Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Kino
The horrors of the Rape of Nanking are chronicled in The City of Life and Death.
The Chinese epic film The City of Life and Death, a depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is based on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the infamous reign of terror conducted by the occupying Japanese army in the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937.
Directed by Lu Chuan (Mountain Patrol), the strikingly photographed black-and-white film is the first big-budget fiction film by the Chinese to deal with the event.
The City of Life and Death is filled with an ensemble of conflicted characters caught in the crossfire, including Chinese officer Lu (Liu Ye), who leads his men in a hopeless, defiant resistance effort; the German businessman, John Rabe (John Paisley), who establishes a safety zone in an attempt to protect civilians...
Price: 2-disc DVD $29.95, 2-disc Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Kino
The horrors of the Rape of Nanking are chronicled in The City of Life and Death.
The Chinese epic film The City of Life and Death, a depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is based on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the infamous reign of terror conducted by the occupying Japanese army in the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937.
Directed by Lu Chuan (Mountain Patrol), the strikingly photographed black-and-white film is the first big-budget fiction film by the Chinese to deal with the event.
The City of Life and Death is filled with an ensemble of conflicted characters caught in the crossfire, including Chinese officer Lu (Liu Ye), who leads his men in a hopeless, defiant resistance effort; the German businessman, John Rabe (John Paisley), who establishes a safety zone in an attempt to protect civilians...
- 9/30/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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