In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
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| Cinema WriterJay Antani...among the greatest war films ever made. Rich in humanist themes and absolutely unflinching in its depiction of the moral chaos and physical violence of war. |
| House Next DoorAndrew SchenkerMostly what the film evokes is the morality-effacing brutality of war in a series of scenes that are both too staid and too self-consciously kinetic. |
| House Next DoorGlenn Heath Jr.During the most difficult moments of City of Life and Death, the confrontation between fledgling acts of humanity and the unimaginable horrors of reality becomes a core conflict that never gets resolved. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)There is real beauty in its effort to comprehend the incomprehensible. |
| Washington ExaminerKelly Jane TorranceThe performances, even of the extras, are all searing portrayals of fear, defiance, cruelty and guilt. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyMust-see: This multi-dimensional chronicle of the 1937 Japanese occupation and massacre of Nanking is a masterpiece, a devastating war film of epic proportions, shot in a realistic yet also poetic style. |
| Boston PhoenixTom MeekThe most visceral war film since Saving Private Ryan - a portrait of the hopeless in the grasp of a sadistic oppressor. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiLu Chuan's steely epic of the rape of Nanking has dramatic inconsistencies but overcomes them with sheer force of will; rarely has art served history so superbly. |
| Turner Classic Movies OnlineSean AxmakerCity of Life and Death puts a convincing image to the abstract history. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLaura Clifford...it is this humanity, standing beside horrific crimes against same, which makes "City of Life and Death" one of the greatest war films. |
