In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
Nanjing 1937, Tempos de Guerra
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牟敦芾大賣殘忍剝削，吳子牛堅持冷峻殘酷。兩者表面上風格各異，但其實二人都抱住同一股創作思維：以美學與事件之結合為先，活用表演性去達到刺激情緒之目的，而人物或戲劇都是可有可無，不必苦心塑造的陪襯品。於是他們的作品都是始於震撼亦止於震撼，其藝術性亦只是建基於所謂「寫實」價值。至於這些電影的「教育工具」性質是否出自創作者內心的真誠想法，觀眾就只能默默揣測了。
DAVID: ★★★½
Reviewed on The Movie Show, SBS, 1995. Review by David Stratton.
NANKING 1937 is a Historical Epic set in the early days of the eight-year undeclared war between Japan and China. Nanking was then the Chinese capital, and the film details the fall of the city and subsequent atrocities inflicted by the Japanese forces. There are several storylines running throughout, with the central characters being a Chinese doctor and his Japanese wife who are caught in the crossfire.
The film alternates human drama with some impressively mounted battle scenes in which the Chinese army - an uneasy alliance of nationalist and communist soldiers - is overrun by superior Japanese forces. Also effective, a scene showing the effects of…
The most sincere film, Nanjing 1937, has a large group cast, basically restores every massacre scene, avoids the common fault of procrastination and negotiation in this kind of theme, and is as shocking as a documentary.
