City.Of.Life.And.Death.2009.NTSC.DVDR-DVDR
THEATRE DATE....: 8/22/2009 (China)
RELEASE DATE....: 10/29/2011
STORE DATE......: 10/25/2011
GENRE...........: Drama/History/War
RATiNG..........: 7.6/10 (2,909 votes)
NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???
RUNTiME.........: 135 Minutes
ViDEO BiTRATE...: 3977 kBit/sec 6-pass CCE
AUDiO BiTRATE...: 448 kBit/s AC3 DD 5.1 at 48KHZ, Mandarin
ASPECT RATiO....: 16:9
ARCHiVES........: dvdr-city.rar *95x50MB*
DVD SiZE........: *4.37 GB* *4,476 MB* *4,583,820 KB*
SUBTiTLES.......: EN
Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape
of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese city on December 9, 1937, and in the six weeks to
follow, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent
civilians. Director Lu Chuan directs this black-and-white docudrama account of that horrifying
six-week period, with the benefit of an ensemble cast that includes Hideo Nakaizumi as a
conscience-stricken Japanese soldier, Fan Wei as the aid to a German humanitarian worker, and Gao
Yuanyuan as the head of a refugee camp. Lu relays the events directly and straightforwardly, with a
careful avoidance of sensationalism and excessive sentimentality, and uses the chronicle to meditate
on the insanity of war for all of those involved.
Director ... Chuan Lu
Ye Liu ... Lu Jianxiong
Yuanyuan Gao ... Miss Jiang
Hideo Nakaizumi ... Kadokawa
Wei Fan ... Mr. Tang
Yiyan Jiang ... Xiao Jiang
Bin Liu ... Xiaodouzi
Five Trailers were removed and the only other 'extra' was an image gallery.
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