The City of Life and Death
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing.
What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, Wei Fan, Yiyan Jiang, Ryu Kohata
The City of Life and Death is released 16th April