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City of Life and Death: Film Review

3:29 PM PDT 6/2/2009 by Maggie Lee

Potently cinematic and full of personal stylistic bravura, "City of Life and Death" is one of only a few Chinese fictional features to tackle head-on the so-called "Rape of Nanking": crimes against humanity committed during the Japanese occupation in 1937.

HONG KONG -- Potently cinematic and full of personal stylistic bravura, City of Life and Death is one of only a few Chinese fictional features to tackle head-on the so-called Rape of Nanking: crimes against humanity committed during the Japanese occupation in 1937.

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