City Of Life And Death

The war-drama movie, City of Life and Death brings back the horrific consequences of the second battle between two Asian giants, Japan and China.

The ground-breaking film features the brutalities inflicted by the Japanese army on the residents of Nanjing, former capital of China. Set in 1937, this movie resurrects the heinous genocide, which grips the whole of the city in a time period of a week. After the invasion of the Japanese armed forces, the city of Nanjing was virtually raped, a gory reality that is set afresh by this war film. City of Life and Death presents some death-defying acts when Chinese forces try to bring resistance against the barbarian acts of Japanese soldiers.  One of the darkest chapters of the Chinese history, bathed with the blood of thousands of innocent people, comes alive with this movie. High in action, this incredible depiction of the second Sino-Japanese war-period embraces a grisly tone that remains until its end. City of Life and Death also brings an opportunity to witness some of the historical figures of the two great nations of Asia. Here in the city of Nanjing, death seems to surpass the value of life, and in no time, the later allows the dominance of the former.

Get to know how the greed for more power and territorial expansion led to diminishing of the importance of life in the ‘City of Life and Death.’ One of the most terrifying sequences comes when hundreds of Chinese soldiers and civilians get shot by the Japanese invaders.