#5 on Cinespect's top ten list, 2011

“City of Life and Death” made its U.S. premier two years after its initial Chinese release. Chaun Lu and his massive cast and crew recreate the devastating drama around the 1937 raping of Nanking by the Japanese. The story often bounces between Chinese and Japanese perspectives, giving a realistic bipartisanship to the atrocities. It also showcases one of the greatest victory ceremonies on screen