Did anyone else watch this last night? Christ it was amazing, totally brutal in parts. Film about the japanese 'taking' of Nanjing in 1937. Have to say its the first film ive seen in years that left me stunned and silenced and wanting to find out more about what happend.
Blurb from bbc4 website: Japanese forces invaded Nanjing, the former capital of the Republic of China on December 9th 1937. Throughout the following six weeks, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians - with mass executions, crowds mown down by firing squads and victims digging their own graves. Few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of what has become known as the 'Rape of Nanking'. Director Lu Chuan tells the horrifying story through several figures, including a conscience-stricken Japanese soldier and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians' lives
its on the bbc iplayer for 7 days as said not an easy watch but well worth it.
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Even the Nazi party member protecting the civilian Chinese was horrified by the Japanese brutality. They just saw the Chinese as sub human and deserving of everthing they got.
That is generally how the victors treated the vanguished for centiuries around the World though.
Mind you I don't call that 'getting off lightly'
As recommended by a certain lifer in the foreign films thread