Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 14, 1995
- Original language
- Chinese
- Spoken languages
- Chinese, English, German, Japanese
- Countries
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
- Production
- Long Shong Pictures
- Cast
- Tso Shiao-Hu,Ding Haifeng,Sheng-kuo Lin,Ulrich Ottenburger,Tao Zeru,Ko Chen-Pang,Shaoma Shi,Keizaburo Kubo,Cong Zhijun,Franco Chiangand 6 more
- Director
- Wu Ziniu
- Producer
- John Woo
- Cinematography
- Yang Shu
- Music
- Tan Dun
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- View on IMDb