Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)
Genre: War / Drama
Duration: 132 minuten
Alternative titles: City of Life and Death / Nanking Nanking / 南京！南京！ / 南京! 南京!
Country:
China / Hong-Kong
Directed by: Chuan Lu
Starst: Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan and Hideo Nakaizumi
IMDb score:
7,7 (12.039)
Releasedate: 22 April 2009
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Nanjing! Nanjing! plot
The film is set in 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese army has captured the capital of the Republic of China, Nanking. What followed is called the 'Nanking Massacre'; this was a period of several weeks in which tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered. We get to see several characters, including a Chinese soldier, a teacher, a Japanese soldier and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who wanted to save the people who died in the massacre.
Actors and actresses
Lu Jianxiong
Miss Jiang
Kadokawa
John Rabe
Minnie Vautrin
Mr. Tang
Mrs. Tang
Officer Osamu Ida
Jiang Xiang Jun / Xiao Jiang
Zhou Xiaomei / May
Reviews & comments
Filmkriebel
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- 9533 messages
- 4418 votes
Raw war drama about the occupation of Nanking by the Japanese. The film follows several characters, both from the Chinese and Japanese sides. The black and white was a good choice here, which strongly emphasizes the gloomy atmosphere of war. It also looks more like a documentary reconstruction than a real film, which makes for an intense film experience. Hats off for bringing the smoldering ruins of Nanking to life. Furthermore, you get to see a lot of misery from this gruesome genocide: mass executions, rapes, people being thrown through windows and that random killing all the time. Towards the end I was constantly jumping from every bang I heard. Yes, it's like being in Nangking by yourself for two hours. Heavy film, in which the Japanese Kadokawa impressed me the most; a good soul who suddenly ends up in hell. As an impression of what happened there in 1937, this film seems to me very successful, although the characters did not always get me along emotionally.
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
After “The Flowers of War” and “John Rabe”, this is my third film about the appalling carnage that the Japanese army inflicted in Nanking in 1937/'38, with an estimated 300,000 victims! It is a gruesome account, presented in sober black and white and without any sensationalism. That makes the film all the more impressive. So many atrocities are hard to comprehend, but it is well known that China is unfortunately not the only place where the Japanese indulged in barbaric behavior.
knusse stoel
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- 3222 messages
- 4073 votes
The problem with this movie was that I couldn't "connect" with the actors. There is constant killing and keeping the characters apart was also difficult for me. The difference between the Chinese and the Japanese? I did not see it. Maybe because of the uniforms, but that was all. And don't think I'm not open to Asian films, a film from Hong Kong passes by regularly, etc..
Perhaps the black and white in the film was also a choice that did not appeal to me and I also watch these films regularly without this complaint. Maybe the story didn't grab me?
A 6.
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