City of Life and Death (2009)
南京!南京!
ThumbScore
👍 77%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 89%
(RT: 93%, MC: 85) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Liu Ye as Lu Jianxiong
Gao Yuanyuan as Miss Jiang
Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa
John Paisley as John Rabe
Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin
Fan Wei as Mr. Tang
Qin Lan as Mrs. Tang
Ryu Kohata as Officer Osamu Ida
Is City of Life and Death good?
Most people think so. 77% audience score, estimated from 250 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 89%.
Overview
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. Wikipedia ↗
