Nanking - 2007 docu - WWII Massacre

Video Codec..........: DivX 5.x/6.x Video Bitrate........: 1378kbps Duration.............: 1:30:05 Resolution...........: 720*400 Framerate............: 23.976 Audio Codec..........: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Audio Bitrate........: 448 kbps CBR Audio Channels.......: 6 Filename.............: Nanking.avi Filesize.............: 1,241,165,196 Subtitles – English, hard coded Editorial Reviews Amazon.com The diaries and letters of Western observers, combined with the testimonies of still-living Chinese eyewitnesses, create an intimate and wrenchingly compelling depiction of the Japanese invasion of Nanking in 1937. Nanking focuses on the Safety Zone established by a bizarre combination of American missionaries and Nazi businessmen, a haven that saved the lives of over 200,000 Chinese too poor to flee the marauding army. The words of these missionaries and businessmen are read by a cast of famous actors, including Woody Harrelson, Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot), and Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan); this could have turned out unbearably precious, but the restraint and respect of the performances allows the voices of the writers to come through with understated power. The documentary is filled with gruesome details ("The dead covered the ground like a straw mat," declares a Japanese soldier) and the atrocities at times verge on unendurable; there's a reason this occupation is commonly held up as a definitive example of man's inhumanity to man. But throughout the horror are glimpses of astonishing courage and the deepest generosity, some of it driven by what can only be described as fierce pacifism. There are startlingly instructive moments (for example, while soldiers raped and looted the city, the Japanese army made propaganda films of soldiers giving candy to hungry children), but the culminating emotional impact of the documentary goes beyond anything didactic. The invasion of Nanking provokes controversy even now, 70 years later. Nanking is unlikely to lay denials to rest, but it's a potent and valuable reminder of the degradation of war. --Bret Fetzer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893356/ Cast (in credits order) Hugo Armstrong ... John Magee Rosalind Chao ... Chang Yu Zheng Stephen Dorff ... Lewis Smythe John Getz ... George Fitch Mariel Hemingway ... Minnie Vautrin Michelle Krusiec ... Yang Shu Ling Chris Mulkey ... Mills McCallum Jürgen Prochnow ... John Rabe Sonny Saito ... Higashi Sakai Graham Sibley ... Miner Searle Bates Mark Valley ... Stage Manager Robert Wu ... Li Pu Woody Harrelson ... Bob Wilson 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 the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former 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 [1] by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.[2][3] The massacre remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists,[3] who have claimed that the massacre has been either exaggerated or wholly fabricated for propaganda purposes. As a result of the nationalist efforts to deny or rationalize the war crimes, the controversy created surrounding 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 Nanking, known as the Nanking 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. The International Military Tribunal of the Far East estimates 260,000 casualties; China's official estimate is 300,000 casualties, based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal. Japanese historians estimate a lower death toll, in the vicinity of 100,000–200,000. Some claim the existence of only 40,000 deaths or even deny that a widespread, systematic massacre occurred at all, claiming that any deaths were either justified militarily, accidental or isolated incidents of unauthorized atrocities. These negationists claim that the characterization of the incident as a large-scale, systematic massacre was fabricated for the purpose of political propaganda. While the Japanese government has acknowledged the crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanking, some Japanese officials have argued that the death toll was military in nature and that no such crimes ever occurred. Denial of the massacre, and a divergent array of revisionist accounts of the killings, has become a staple of Japanese nationalism.[7] In Japan, public opinion of the massacres varies, and few deny the occurrence of the massacre outright.[7] Nonetheless, recurring attempts by negationists to promote a revisionist history of the incident have created controversy that periodically reverberates in the international media, particularly in China, South Korea, and other East Asian nations.[8]

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adamant19 (2011-06-06)

Thank you so much

Stanselm (2011-11-06)

Great torrent. Highly recommend "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. Torrent is available as an audiobook

Bambikilr (2012-06-03)

Thank you very much. This is a very well done documentary in a good balance, between both first hand accounts by survivors, as well as actors reenacting reactions and stories of some of the people who have kept journals during this abominable act of violence, far from every rule of humanity towards civilians during warfare. The debate about the Nanking (Nanjing) massacre is still hot and infected, being denied and diminished by many Japanese authorities and "historians" to this day. Sadly, this atrocious act done by the invading Japanese troups, is a very much forgotten and ignored part of the modern history, and I can say that there was not one single word in swedish Historybooks about any modern Chinese history, except for the condemnment of Tse Tung's rein. The genocides committed by Cambodia's regime under Pol Pot (roughly 1/4 of the country's population slaughtered, 1.7-2 million people), Rwanda by the majority ethnic group Hutus (20 % of the country's population massacred in a blood bath without comparison in modern history, over 10000 slaughtered per day, by recent counts likely close to 1,2 million people, during a period of only 100 days), are like the Nanking massacre forgotten and ignored events, which should be retold and retold and retold. I have been to Rwanda (2005) and I will never recover completely from the scars of a country that I have seen. I will tell what I have seen as long as I live, to ignorant westerners who do not care about what happens anywhere else in the world. I recommend deeper interest in the Rwandan (1994) and the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979) for everyone. Sorry for the long text.
Thank you to uploader for a good documentary.

Gabri77 (2014-05-06)

Thx!