- HD 1080
- Runtime: 132m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: zh
- Country: China, Hong Kong
- Director: Lu Chuan
- Stars: Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous
- keywords: war crimes, mass murder, war victim, second sino-japanese war (1937-45), massacre, japanese army, duringcreditsstinger, imperial japan, nanking massacre china 1937, 1930s, nanjing, japanese occupation of china
- Production_studio: China Film Group Corporation, Media Asia, Stellar Megamedia, Jiangsu Broadcasting, Chuan Production Film Studio
- The City of Life and Death is featured in the top rankings of 2009
- #36 in Top Drama Movies of 2009
- #2 in Top War Movies of 2009
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.
