Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

brechtgregoire If you prefer brutal realistic war movies than action hero Hollywood garbage then this is a movie for you.Gives you a depressive view of the Imperial Japanese occupation of Namkin in China showing what war can do to men and does not pick sides. Highly recommend this movie about a highly forgotten part of the start of WW2.

v-come The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge The Japanese killed my grandfather's brother in WW2 ,the Japanese have yet to apologies or even properly acknowledge

Prithwiraj Sinha As painful as it may be,this movie is perhaps the most devastatingly harrowing portrayal of the Nanking massacre on screen.There have been questions regarding its historical accuracy but of all the movies based on this harrowing topic - "The flowers of war", "Don't cry, Nanking!" and "Man behind the sun", this one touches the most and leaves you spellbound..The atrocities of the incident displayed on screen are shocking and gut wrenching but the finesse with which the battles,rapes, decapitation, mass shootings and burnings as well are choreographed demands appreciation.The dramatic elements are commandingly presented and you cannot but feel and empathize for the victims of the war.The first half is crafted well with battle scenes while the atrocities by the Japanese soldiers is reserved for the second half.The film masterfully depicts the endurance and bravery of Chinese soldiers and prisoners of war and shows how the ruthless acts of the Japanese soldiers fails to deter the spirits of the Chinese people.All the characters in the movie, right from Ye Liu as Lu Jianxiong ,the little boy who survives in the end, Mr Tang,John Rabe,Miss Jiang or Kadokawa give tremendous performances and portray deep emotion.Judging it as a pure cinema purist, this movie is grand and powerful in all respects and the attention to detail is eye-grabbing.An outstanding piece of cinema..highly recommended!

James Smith This is one of the most compelling, horrific, thought provoking and shocking movies I have ever seen. It is doubtful that even a documentary could show the horrors of war so succinctly and clearly, as presented in this movie. The characters humanity and in some cases, in-humanity are vividly drawn, adding to the realism and the nightmarish atmosphere, where just like in a nightmare, there seems to be no escape. The cinematography is amazing, and the contrast by transposing the violence of man over the beauty of nature (with the sound of a gentle breeze) is so very effective. I'd read about the "Rape of Nanking" a long time before, and started watching this movie half expecting it to be so depressing, to get only halfway through before switching it off. Wrong. It was gripping from the start and introduced characters I wanted to survive no matter what, and to characters I hoped would die - violently. The movie had such an impact on me that by the end of it, I'm ashamed to say, I was wishing they had dropped a lot more than two atomic bombs on Japan to end World War 2 in the Pacific. Don't get the wrong idea, this is not an anti-Japanese film, more an exposition of what the human animal can do at its worst - in this case the Japanese in 1937. I know that many other atrocities have been committed by other nations since, and unfortunately, will be in the future. To plagarise from another reviewer - we should forgive but not forget.