2-4 weeks delay City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians. Casts: * Liu Ye as Lu Jianxiong * Gao Yuanyuan as Jiang Shuyun * Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa * Fan Wei as Mr. Tang * Jiang Yiyan as Xiao Jiang * Ryu Kohata as Ida * Liu Bin as Shunzi * John Paisley as John Rabe * Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin * Qin Lan as Mrs. Tang * Sam Voutas as Durdin * Yao Di as Tang Xiaomei * Zhao Yisui as Shunzi
