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City of Life and Death — Where the Story Was Set

1 real historical location · China

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Lu Chuan's stark black-and-white film depicting the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38, when Japanese forces killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war. Shot with documentary realism, it remains one of cinema's most powerful accounts of WWII's greatest atrocities.

CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning China.

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Nanjing, China

The 2009 Chinese black-and-white film depicts the Nanjing Massacre from multiple perspectives — Chinese soldiers, civilian refugees, a Japanese soldier and a...

The Nanjing Massacre (December 1937 – January 1938) followed the Japanese capture of China's capital. Estimates of the death toll range from 40,000 to 300,000. Mass executions, rape and looting were carried out by Imp...

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