City of Life and Death
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.
Genres
Drama, History, War
Studio
Media Asia Films
Language
zh
Status
Released
How City of Life and Death performed
Budget
$12.0M
Worldwide Gross
$10.7M
Gross Profit
−$1.3M
Return
0.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Lu Jianxiong
Liu Ye
Lu Jianxiong
Miss Jiang
Gao Yuanyuan
Miss Jiang
Kadokawa
Hideo Nakaizumi
Kadokawa
John Rabe
John Paisley
John Rabe
Minnie Vautrin
Beverly Peckous
Minnie Vautrin
Mr. Tang
Fan Wei
Mr. Tang
Mrs. Tang
Qin Lan
Mrs. Tang
Officer Osamu Ida
Ryu Kohata
Officer Osamu Ida
'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
Jiang Yiyan
'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
'May' Zhou Xiaomei
Yao Di
'May' Zhou Xiaomei
Shunzi
Yisui Zhao
Shunzi
Durdin
Sam Voutas
Durdin
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