Nanjing Massacre Films

Two films are doing the rounds at the moment concerned with the Nanjing Masscare of 1937 – Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death, from the point of view of the city’s military defense, civilian refugees, and Japanese invaders, and John Rabe, a Sino-German production, looking at the Massacre through the experiences of the title character, a German businessman with Siemens and Nazi Party member in China who helped set up a refugee zone in the city.

I haven’t had a chance to see either film – and may well never see either as I don’t watch TV much and never go to the cinema. Still they’re hard to ignore and should be interesting one way or another for the reaction to them in China. Danwei has a post on both films and some initial reactions which I’ll just link to for now.