City of Life and Death

In December 1937, Japanese troops break into Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, and the city's soldiers and civilians are left to whatever comes next. Lu Chuan follows Lu Jianxiong (Liu Ye), a Chinese soldier caught in the fall, along with Kadokawa (Hideo Nakaizumi), a Japanese soldier in the occupying army, and Miss Jiang (Gao Yuanyuan). The film is about what ordinary people do when a war arrives in their streets and the usual rules stop applying.