Nanking! Nanking! - City Of Life And Death 14 - NOT FOR KIDS! Video

Nanking! Nanking! - City Of Life And Death - Chinese Film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124052/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Life_and_Death
YouTube-Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F09E221BCD690A93
Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan, marking his third feature film.
The film deals with the Battle of Nanjing and its Horror aftermath during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The film is also known as Nanking! Nanking! or Nanjing! Nanjing!.

Takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing.
What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.

In 2005 there were angry protests in China after Japan published school text books which China claimed played down the country's war time atrocities.
Japanese politicians have also sparked anger in China by visiting the Yasukuni shrine, which honors fallen Japanese soldiers, including 14 convicted war criminals.

Nanking Massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, refers to a six-week period following the Japanese capture of Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China, on December 9, 1937.
During this period, hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000-80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The massacre remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists, who have claimed that the massacre has been either exaggerated or wholly fabricated for propaganda purposes.

As a result of nationalist efforts to deny or rationalize the crimes, the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations, as well as Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations such as South Korea and the Philippines.

Estimates of the death toll vary widely.
Aside from the absence of accurate, comprehensive records of the killings, other contributors to the wide variance in estimates of the death toll include differences in definition of the geographical area, time period and nature of the killings to be counted.
The Nanking Massacre can be defined narrowly to count only those killings happening within the Nanking Safety Zone, more broadly to include killings in the immediate environs of Nanking, or even more broadly to include the six counties around Nanjing, known as the Nanjing Special Municipality.
Similarly, the time period of the massacre can be limited to the six weeks following the fall of Nanking or it can be defined more broadly to include killings from the time the Japanese Army entered Jiangsu province in mid-November until late March 1938.
Variations in estimates based on the nature of the killings revolve around the question of whether the killings of captured Chinese soldiers and suspected guerrillas constituted legitimate executions.

Grant of immunity to Prince Asaka:
On May 1, 1946, SCAP officials interrogated Prince Asaka, who was the ranking officer in the city at the height of the atrocities, about his involvement in the Nanking Massacre and the deposition was submitted to the International Prosecution Section of the Tokyo tribunal.

Asaka denied the existence of any massacre and claimed never to have received complaints about the conduct of his troops.
Whatever his culpability may have been, Asaka was not prosecuted before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at least in part because under the pact concluded between General MacArthur and Hirohito, the Emperor himself and all the members of the imperial family were granted immunity from prosecution.

Prince Asaka Yasuhiko:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Asaka

Douglas MacArthur:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur

Hirohito:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

International Military Tribunal for the Far East:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East

Nanking Massacre Memorial Hall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre_Memorial_Hall

YouTube-Playlist,
The Nanking Massacre 1937 - NOT for KIDS!:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E44E0E15D851CF61

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BasicModelling: I will have to dedicate a whole day just to your films alone.. :) :)

grummeper: Thanks!

BasicModelling: You show some good stuff, trouble is my time is limited.. but it will be done.. :) :) I'll spare a day when my wife and son are back in London and I have not much else to do.. :)

fertzz: wow .. fantatic!!!!

osmaper: Really good, but the dance is missing from the previus capt

grummeper: ... and this very imortant the capt. Thanks again.

grummeper: - now it is there - as no 13

mpaong: จำใว้นะชาวจีนเอย

champ10152: Thank you.

champ10152: It was a historyed.Now it is a present and the future time.we can't solve in the past time.We can't liveing by alone.i don't see it again.

starstarca: A great movie..thanks for sharing...don't know whether this movie can be broadcast in japan or not...however I don't find any japanese post comment for this movie..how do they feel...they have no regret?

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