City of Life and Death (2009)

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

Genres: Drama, History, War

What to watch after City of Life and Death

• Assembly (2007)
• The Flowers of War (2011) — Same subject: nanking massacre china 1937, 1930s
• Mountain Patrol (2004) — Lu Chuan directed both
• The Emperor and the Assassin (1998) — Same subject: china
• The Warlords (2007)
• A City of Sadness (1989)