南京1937

南京1937 (1995)

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.

Data di uscita
1995-09-14
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (4)
Durata
2 h 0 min
Generi
Guerra, Dramma
Regista
Wu Ziniu

Cast

Curiosità

Don't Cry, Nanking, also known as Nanjing 1937, is a 1995 Chinese war film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the former capital city Nanjing, China.

Trivia

Among historical characters such as John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, the film also features the infamous hundred man killing contest between Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyochi Noda.

Being produced before the publishing of such books like Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking and Herbert Bix's Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, the movie shows General Iwane Matsui giving the order to "kill all the captives" and omits any reference to Prince Asaka.

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