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May 10, 2011 · In memorializing a traumatic event in modern Chinese history, the conquest of the capital city of Nanking in December 1937 and the attendant atrocities committed by members of the invading Japanese army, writer-director Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death navigates the tropes of wartime docudrama with familiar reverence but an inexorable tug of horror.
It makes the savagery all the more senseless. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2011. Exquisitely shot in black and white, with a rare attention to detail and dramatic complexity, "City ...
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.
Impressive chronicle in beautiful black & white about the horrors inflicted by the Japanese in 1937 after they conquered the former Chinese capital Nanjing. ...
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Unthinking, unreasoning, just because. Filmed in black and white, City has so many images and scenes that remain fixed in you mind long after the final credits have rolled. Lu Chuan even selects the grain and grading according to the action. The use of colour would, in this case, have weakened the film.
City of Life and Death. directed by Lu Chuan, 2009, China 中文分析. Kadokawa, 角川正雄, a sergeant in the Japanese Imperial Army, able to speak some English because as a small boy he attended church school, with enough education to be self-reflective and have a moral conscience; loses his virginity while with one of the “comfort women ...
City of Life and Death does a valiant job competing with its own prettiness. Director Lu Chuan ( Kekexili: Mountain Patrol ), a filmmaker whose career is sharpening into political acuity, has ...
