City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death 2009

南京！南京！ nánjīng！ nánjīng！

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

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3.52 Beginner Director Lu Chuan 🍅 92%

Cast

Liu Ye Liu Ye Lu Jianxiong Gao Yuanyuan Gao Yuanyuan Miss Jiang Hideo Nakaizumi Hideo Nakaizumi Kadokawa John Paisley John Paisley John Rabe Beverly Peckous Beverly Peckous Minnie Vautrin Fan Wei Fan Wei Mr. Tang Qin Lan Qin Lan Mrs. Tang Ryu Kohata Ryu Kohata Officer Osamu Ida Jiang Yiyan Jiang Yiyan 'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun Yao Di Yao Di 'May' Zhou Xiaomei

Vocabulary

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部队 部隊 bù duì army; armed forces; troops; force; unit HSK 6
军队 軍隊 jūn duì armed forces; troops HSK 6
理 理 lǐ texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
威胁 威脅 wēi xié to threaten; to menace HSK 6
藏 藏 Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
啥 啥 shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
滚开 滾開 gǔn kāi (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
起立 起立 qǐ lì to stand; Stand up! ∼HSK 5
小豆 小豆 xiǎo dòu azuki bean; red bean ∼HSK 5
难民营 難民營 nàn mín yíng refugee camp ∼HSK 5
闭嘴 閉嘴 bì zuǐ Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 ∼HSK 5
立正 立正 lì zhèng to stand straight; attention! (order to troops) ∼HSK 5
认领 認領 rèn lǐng to claim (as one's property); to adopt (a child); to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own) ∼HSK 5
俺 俺 ǎn I, me (northern dialect) ∼HSK 5
伏 伏 Fú crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal ∼HSK 5
糟了 糟了 zāo le gosh!; oh no!; darn! ∼HSK 5
躲开 躲開 duǒ kāi to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc); to avoid (sb) ∼HSK 5
杀掉 殺掉 shā diào to kill ∼HSK 5
炮弹 炮彈 pào dàn artillery shell ∼HSK 5
手榴弹 手榴彈 shǒu liú dàn hand grenade ∼HSK 5
亡 亡 wáng death, destroyed; lose, perish ∼HSK 5
稍等 稍等 shāo děng to wait a moment ∼HSK 5
嘘 噓 xū exhale; blow out; deep sigh; hiss; praise ∼HSK 5
指甲油 指甲油 zhǐ jia yóu nail polish ∼HSK 5
剪头发 剪頭髮 jiǎn tóu fa (to get a) haircut ∼HSK 5
慰 慰 wèi comfort, console, calm ∼HSK 5
祥 祥 xiáng good luck, good omen; happiness ∼HSK 5
痕 痕 hén scar; mark; trace ∼HSK 5
慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu") ∼HSK 5
回声 回聲 huí shēng echo ∼HSK 5
还不如 還不如 hái bù rú to be better off...; might as well... ∼HSK 5
回信 回信 huí xìn to reply; to write back; letter written in reply HSK 5
煤 煤 méi coal HSK 5
预备 預備 yù bèi to prepare; to make ready; preparation; preparatory HSK 5
占领 佔領 zhàn lǐng to capture; to seize; to occupy by force HSK 5
将要 將要 jiāng yào will; shall; to be going to HSK 5
乡 鄉 xiāng country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit) HSK 5
助手 助手 zhù shǒu assistant; helper HSK 5
包围 包圍 bāo wéi to surround; to encircle; to hem in HSK 5
签字 簽字 qiān zì to sign (one's name); signature HSK 5
射击 射擊 shè jī to shoot; to fire (a gun) HSK 5
军人 軍人 jūn rén serviceman; soldier; military personnel HSK 5
打扰 打擾 dǎ rǎo to disturb; to bother; to trouble HSK 5
优先 優先 yōu xiān to have priority; to take precedence HSK 5
子弹 子彈 zǐ dàn bullet HSK 5
不许 不許 bù xǔ not to allow; must not; can't HSK 5
得了 得了 dé le all right!; that's enough! HSK 5