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City of Life and Death is a new film out from China. It's first big
budget film, according to the raves. It will also be
controversial...not in China so much, but in Japan. It's about the
Rape of Nanking. From the synopsis:
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.
I'm wondering if they will ever show this in Japan? At any rate, for
me, what is interesting is that this is a movie not about the People's
Liberation Army but about the Kuomintang army's failure to protect
it's own capital, yet fighting bravely and they suffering the
massacres that accompanied this huge strategic defeat. That is
interesting. So...I'm wondering how this movie will be perceived
in...Taiwan as well and if THEY shot it.
The trailer for it is here:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/cityoflifeanddeath/
David
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