City of life and death.
On December 9, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, beginning a reign of terror that killed as many as 300,000 civilians, an infamous tragedy now referred to as the Rape of Nanking. The first big-budget fiction film by the Chinese to deal with this seminal e...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Chinese |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2014.
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| Summary: | On December 9, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, beginning a reign of terror that killed as many as 300,000 civilians, an infamous tragedy now referred to as the Rape of Nanking. The first big-budget fiction film by the Chinese to deal with this seminal event in their modern history, City of life and death is a visceral, heartbreaking portrait of life during wartime, and an unforgettable masterpiece of contemporary world cinema. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 135 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |