Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)

7.8/10 • 120 min • War Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Ronald Chin Han

Cheng Xian

René Liu

Shuqin

Ai Saotome

Rieko

Franco Chiang

Cong Zhijun

Ding Haifeng

Kao Chen-Peng

Liu Weihua

Tao Zeru

Tso Shiao-Hu

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