Product Details

• Actors: Hirohito
• Directors: Rhawn Joseph
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: BrainMind.com, UniversityPress.info
• DVD Release Date: December 3, 2005
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CETW4Y
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,107 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The best most influential movie ever made on this tragedy. --China Central TV

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The best... most influential movie ever made on this tragedy--China Central TV. Top 10 Most Discussed Films of All Time, 2007. The whole world should see this movie--Sina.com. Thoughtful.... Profound.... Shocking... ----People's Daily --Beijing Youth Daily --China Youth Daily. Viewed by 16 million people world wide. Over 30,000 Individual comments have been posted online about this film in the US alone. The new edition contains 2 (two-sided) DVDs, featuring the best film ever made on this tragedy; The Rape of Nanking, and 6 featurettes: Unit 731, Sex Slaves & Comfort Women, Hiroshima (and more). This film, The Rape of Nanking begins with a historical overview of ancient China and the sun-cult of Shinto, Bushido, and Japanese Emporer Hirohito's dream to rule the world. There follows the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, the Rape of Nanking, inside the Safety Zone (featuring the observations of John Rabe and others) and finally, the rape of Manilla, Unit 731 and the Baatan Death March. Japanese soldiers tear out the eyes of children, gang-rape women then set them on fire, bury people alive or use them for bayonet practice...beheading women, children, old men....and torturing people for fun...and then laughing hysterically as victims, who have been set on fire, run screaming through the night... We had fun killing Chinese. We caught some innocent Chinese and either buried them alive, or pushed them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs. When they were half dead we pushed them into ditches and burned them, torturing them to death. Everyone gets his entertainment this way. Its like killing dogs and cats. --Asahi Shimbun, Japanese soldier, describing Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking. We took turns raping them. We always stabbed and killed them. When we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman. But when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig. --Azuma Shiro, Japanese soldier. This film received rave reviews in all the Chinese press, and filled theaters in Nanking, Wuhan, and elsewhere. And not just the Chinese press, but even people working for our competitors agree, The Rape of Nanking is the best documentary ever made on this tragedy. In fact, our competitors decided to make their film, only after watching ours and learning of its great success. Viewers should be warned, The Rape of Nanking contains footage which will shock and horrify. However, some of the material on Disc 2, is so frightening and horrifying some viewers can't sleep at night. Unit 731, for example, details Japanese medical experiments performed on live prisoners. Hiroshima shows, in horrifying details, the punishment received by the Japanese people for the crimes committed by their leaders. The choice is clear: This film, The Rape of Nanking, is the best, most discussed, and most influential movie ever made on this tragedy.

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48 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Will Give You Nightmares! The Most Frightening, Horrifying Movie Ever Made, March 26, 2006

By	Niloo (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

I saw this movie, with several friends, in a crowded theater in California. This movie will give you nightmares! It is the most shocking, horrifying movie ever made! Let me tell you about the audience that saw it with me. By the end of the film, almost everyone was in shock. Many were crying and in tears. A friend of mine who is a journalist, told me she began having nightmares after watching it. This movie is not for the faint hearted. All the pictures and film clips are archival, and most were taken by the Japanese. This is truly shocking stuff. It does not get more real than this. As to the background music, I have only this to say: Bravo!

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Historical Work of Art, November 2, 2006

By	Ronald Becker (USA) - See all my reviews

This film takes you back in time, making you feel as if you are right there. The images and pictures are graphic. A gore-fest, it is not. If you want buckets of blood, then look elsewhere. The sound track is truly wonderful, and the film-makers use the music and the pictures to really play with your emotions. I've also seen other documentaries about the Rape of Nanking, and this is truly the best. The film provides a historical context, explaining the mind-set of the Japanese and the events leading up to the massacre, and none of the other documentaries on this subject do that. The film also explains American government complicity in covering up the crimes of the Japanese, and no other film does that either. If you want to really understand the Rape of Nanking, what took place and why, this is the film for you.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of "The Rape of Nanking", May 6, 2007

By	Andres D. Onate (Nanjing, China) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I teach a class on the Chinese revolution, 1911-1949. One of the topics I cover is Japan's invasion of China in 1937, which includes the atrocities committed in Nanking in December 1937. If the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words is true," then it was not necessary for me to lecture on the event; all I needed to do was to show the video to my students. We were all numb after watching the video. It took a while for us to regain our composure before discussing this episode in China-Japan relations.