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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: THINKFILM LLC
EAN: 0821575556354
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 5064
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
NANKING (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com:
The diaries and letters of Western observers, combined with the testimonies of still-living Chinese eyewitnesses, create an intimate and wrenchingly compelling depiction of the Japanese invasion of Nanking in 1937. Nanking focuses on the Safety Zone established by a bizarre combination of American missionaries and Nazi businessmen, a haven that saved the lives of over 200,000 Chinese too poor to flee the marauding army. The words of these missionaries and businessmen are read by a cast of famous actors, including Woody Harrelson, Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot), and Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan); this could have turned out unbearably precious, but the restraint and respect of the performances allows the voices of the writers to come through with understated power. The documentary is filled with gruesome details ('The dead covered the ground like a straw mat,' declares a Japanese soldier) and the atrocities at times verge on unendurable; there's a reason this occupation is commonly held up as a definitive example of man's inhumanity to man. But throughout the horror are glimpses of astonishing courage and the deepest generosity, some of it driven by what can only be described as fierce pacifism. There are startlingly instructive moments (for example, while soldiers raped and looted the city, the Japanese army made propaganda films of soldiers giving candy to hungry children), but the culminating emotional impact of the documentary goes beyond anything didactic. The invasion of Nanking provokes controversy even now, 70 years later. Nanking is unlikely to lay denials to rest, but it's a potent and valuable reminder of the degradation of war. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Heroes rise
Amid the horror- hope. A valuable retelling of the history. The history is the subject of books and other films. This is a good starting point to learn, once again, about the cruelty and bravery possible in mankind.
Rating: - True picture of history
The historical footage of this movie can not be denied. Though it was very emotional to watch, it was a lesson we can not ignore. Like the holocaust, this was another human tragedy which should never be repeated.An excellent documentary I recommend fully.
Rating: - You wont be the same after you watch this...and nobody should.
Nanking is a kind of documentary told by the Westerners and the Chinese who lived through the massacre of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937. The foreigners who lived in Nanking at the time have sadly passed away but their diaries and stories are read aloud by such actors as Woody Harelson, Jurgen Prochnow and Mariel Hemingway.
Along with the actors reading their parts and the testimonials of surviving Chinese are actual pictures and film footage of the horrors the Japanese soldiers inflicted ... Read More
Rating: - The Purple Mountains on Fire
I, like many other Westerners, first heard of the Rape of Nanjing ten years ago when Iris Chang released her book Rape of Nanking. I, of course, knew that Japan had been at war with China and that the Japanese Imperial Army had done a number of despicable things in China, but it was this book that really opened my eyes to what Japan did in China and had a major enough effect on me to make me dedicate my life to the study of Japanese and Chinese history, literature, and film. While I have become aware ... Read More
Rating:  - American Idols of the Greatest Generation
The documentary "Nanking" was about a massacre in far away China in World War II. In July 7 1937, Japan waged a full-scale invasion in Peking (Beijing) then Shanghai and Nanking. They dreamt of brutalizing Chinese people into surrender within three months with bombing, looting and killing. A group of westerners, despite evacuation order from their own government, determined to stay with the citizens in the fall of Nanking, then the Chinese capital. They set up the Safety Zone as a neutral sanctuary for ... Read More
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