Chinese director Lu Chuan directs this historical drama based on the invasion of Nanking - the then-capital of the Republic of China - by the Japanese army in 1936, the event that has since been dubbed the Rape of Nanking or the Nanking Massacre. Over a period of several weeks, tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were brutally tortured, raped and killed by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese army. Filmed in black and white, the film portrays the experiences of several characters swept up in the conflict, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and Nazi businessman John Rabe (John Paisley).
Director: Chuan Lu
Producer: Sanping Han
Writer: Chuan Lu
Music: Tong Liu
Actor: Ye Liu
Actor: Yuanyuan Gao
Actor: Hideo Nakaizumi
Actor: Wei Fan
Actor: Yiyan Jiang
Actor: Ryu Kohata
Actor: Bin Liu
Actor: Yuko Miyamoto
Actor: John Paisley
Actor: Beverly Peckous
Actor: Lan Qin
Actor: Sam Voutas
Producer: John Chong
Producer: Hong Qin
Producer: Andy Zhang
Producer: Li Zhou
Cinematographer: Yu Cao