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Nanking (2007)

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Average Rating:8.0/10

Consensus: This powerful and horrific documentary brings the atrocities committed at Nanking to light without sugarcoating any of the brutality.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for disturbing images and descriptions of wartime atrocities, including rape.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Dec 12, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $45,543

Synopsis: In 1937, Japanese armed forces entered Nanking, China, and systematically raped and killed over 200,000 Chinese in one of human history's worst atrocities. Decades later, there's still bad blood... In 1937, Japanese armed forces entered Nanking, China, and systematically raped and killed over 200,000 Chinese in one of human history's worst atrocities. Decades later, there's still bad blood and unresolved tensions. This wrenching documentary from Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman combines harrowing archival footage, interviews with survivors (including contrite Japanese vets), and reenactments with actors Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff, Mariel Hemingway, and Jurgen Prochnow (as a Schindler-like member of the Nazi party), reading from the diaries of real-life heroic westerners who set up a safety zone in attempt to shelter the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the city. Though this element adds some much-needed hope for humanity, this is still a deeply upsetting documentary. It's very well made and should be considered required viewing, but be warned: some of the rarely-before-seen archival footage is truly graphic and disturbing. Based on the bestselling book, THE RAPE OF NANKING by Iris Chang, this documentary makes effective use of a quietly shattering Kronos Quartet score. The film is presented in English, Japanese, and Mandarin with English subtitles. [More]

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Stephen Dorff, Jürgen Prochnow

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Stephen Dorff, Jürgen Prochnow, Rosalind Chao, John Getz, Michelle Krusiec, Chris Mulkey, Graham Sibley

Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman

Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Screenwriter: Elisabeth Bentley, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Story: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Producer: Ted Leonsis, Bill Guttentag, Michael Jacobs
Composer: Philip Marshall
Studio: ThinkFilm

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