Sergei Bodrov (director), “MONGOL: The Rise of Genghis Khan“, 2007 film was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Bill Guttentag (director), 南京,“Nanking”, 2007 film.
INTRODUCTION.
Iris Chang, “The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II”, 1997 is the book for which the 南京,“Nanking”, 2007 film is an adaptation. The “foreword” from the book is given BELOW.
FOREWORD.
”ON DECEMBER 13, 1937, Nanking, the capital city of Nationalist China, fell to the Japanese. For Japan, this was to have been the decisive turning point in the war, the triumphant culmination of a half-year struggle against Chiang Kai-shek’s armies in the Yangtze Valley. For Chinese forces, whose heroic defense of Shanghai had finally failed, and whose best troops had suffered crippling casualties, the fall of Nanking was a bitter, perhaps fatal defeat.”
COMMENTS.
I saw this film in the cinema in 2007 in the Los Angeles, California of Little Tokyo. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles is a community of Japanese-Americans that also have “war stories” as Americans during World War II.
This is a movie that is easy to watch, but it is a holocaust film. It differs from the Jewish holocaust in that not much is written about it. BELOW are a pair of images from the 1937 Nanjing Holocaust of Japanese soldiers, and of the beheadings. The film is not images like this, the screenwriting is “general audience”.
Iris Chang, the writer of the book grew up with the stories of her Chinese grandparents that escaped the 1937 Nanking Holocaust.
