City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death (2024)

2024

Drama / History / War

7.7 from 10 with total 115 votes

2009-04-22

132 minutes

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.

Liu Ye character Lu Jianxiong

Gao Yuanyuan character Miss Jiang

Hideo Nakaizumi character Kadokawa

John Paisley character John Rabe

Beverly Peckous character Minnie Vautrin

Fan Wei character Mr. Tang

Qin Lan character Mrs. Tang

Ryu Kohata character Officer Osamu Ida

Jiang Yiyan character Jiang Xiang Jun / Xiao Jiang

Yao Di character Zhou Xiaomei / May

Yisui Zhao character Shunzi

Bin Liu character Xiao Douzi (Juvenile)

Yûko Miyamoto character Yuriko

Sam Voutas character Durdin

Aisling Dunne character Doctor

Junichi Kajioka character Mr. Tomita

Kai Wang character Tang Family Nanny

Asano Nagahide character Higashiguchi