City of Life and Death
2009 · directed by Lu Chuan
- Rating
- 81/100
- Hit
- yes
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.
City of Life and Death (2009), directed by Lu Chuan, rates 81/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Liu Ye
- Gao Yuanyuan
- Hideo Nakaizumi
- John Paisley
- Beverly Peckous
- Fan Wei
- Qin Lan
- Ryu Kohata
- Jiang Yiyan
- Yao Di
Crew
- Cao Yu — Director of Photography
- Yun Teng — Editor
- Liu Tong — Original Music Composer
- Lu Chuan — Writer
More from Lu Chuan
- Mountain Patrol (2004) — 81/100 · hit
- Born in China (2016) — 72/100
- Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015) — 57/100
- Bureau 749 (2024) — 51/100
How these numbers work: Methodology