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Sep 26, 2013 · Impressive chronicle in beautiful black & white about the horrors inflicted by the Japanese in 1937 after they conquered the former Chinese capital Nanjing. ...
- 1 min
- 17.6K
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
Chinese filmmaker Chuan Lu has tackled a vast and ambitious subject in City of Life and Death. I knew very little about the siege on Nanjing (or Nanking, as Westerners have long referred to it) in ...
City of Life and Death is a film directed by Lu Chuan with Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Fan Wei .... Year: 2009. Original title: Nanjing! Nanjing!. Synopsis: Year 1937.
In this way, City of Life and Death offers a model for what may be a coming wave of films that try to reconcile China’s legacy of recriminatory sentiment towards foreign powers with its emerging role as a leader—both ideologically and commercially—in the world cultural marketplace. 1 It may be a matter as simple as the ability of its ...
May 14, 2009 · At times semi-impressionistic, at others gut-wrenchingly up close and personal, Nanjing massacre chronicle “City of Life and Death” lives up to hype and expectations. Third feature by mainland ...
May 14, 2010 · An extraordinary, widescreen, black and white ballet of convulsed humanity and blasted infrastructure, City of Life and Death is Chinas first straightforward...
- 2 min
- 80.5K
- Sydney Film Festival
