The read
Scores higher than 97% of the 3,576 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Metacritic85/100
250 audience votes
Key crew
Cast
- Liu YeLu Jianxiong
- Gao YuanyuanMiss Jiang
- Hideo NakaizumiKadokawa
- John PaisleyJohn Rabe
- Beverly PeckousMinnie Vautrin
- Fan WeiMr. Tang
- Qin LanMrs. Tang
- Ryu KohataOfficer Osamu Ida
- Jiang Yiyan'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
- Yao Di'May' Zhou Xiaomei
- Yisui ZhaoShunzi
- Sam VoutasDurdin
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Themes
war crimesmass murderwar victimsecond sino-japanese war (1937-45)massacrejapanese armyduringcreditsstingerimperial japannanking massacre china 19371930snanjingjapanese occupation of china
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