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Don't Cry, Nanking

Don't Cry, Nanking

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 14, 1995

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

War, Drama

Original Title

南京1937

Production Companies

Long Shong Pictures

Director

Wu Ziniu

Description

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.