Nanking is a 2007 film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre.
The massacre occurred during a six-week period starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanking. During this period, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. Widespread rape and looting also occurred. An accurate estimation of the death toll in the massacre has not been achieved because most of the Japanese military records on the killings were deliberately destroyed or kept secret shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Every time someone mentions this period of history makes us boil with anger and grief. If you come here to Nanjing I can show you The Memorial Hall of Victims in Nanjing Massacre, there are just too many atrocities, tragedies and proof of a crime.
