Topic: Second Sino-Japanese War

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Plot During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Shinsuke Ashida · Yusuke Kawazu · Ranko Akagi

Plot In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe...

Direction Lu Chuan

Cast Ye Liu · Gao Yuanyuan · Hideo Nakaizumi · Fan Wei

Plot Year 1937. Japanese troops have entered China's temporary capital, where their cruel occupation will be known as "The Rape of Nanjing." Shot in wide lens black-and-white, the film alternates Japanese...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Christian Bale · John Malkovich · Joe Pantoliano · Miranda Richardson

Plot An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on...

Direction Wilson Yip

Cast Donnie Yen · Simon Yam · Fan Siu-Wong · Lynn Hung

Plot A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Christian Bale · Ni Ni · Xinyi Zhang · Shigeo Kobayashi

Plot In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds...

Direction Jiang Wen

Cast Jiang Wen · Haibin Li · Jiang Hongbo · Cong Zhijun

Plot During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New...

Direction Bill Guttentag · Dan Sturman

Cast Hugo Armstrong · Rosalind Chao · Stephen Dorff · John Getz

Plot "Nanking" tells the story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of...

Direction Sun Yu

Cast Jin Yan · Chen Yanyan · Lily Li · Luo Ming

Plot Six young men from the city take jobs on a road crew, building a highway of strategic importance to the Chinese Army. The story relates the men's interactions with each...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Atsuko Kindaichi · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Chen Kuo-fu · Gao Qunshu

Cast Zhou Xun · Zhang Hanyu · Li Bingbing · Huang Xiaoming

Plot 1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for...

Direction Feng Xiaogang

Cast Tim Robbins · Adrien Brody · Chen Daoming · Xu Fan

Plot A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.

Direction Florian Gallenberger

Cast Ulrich Tukur · Daniel Brühl · Steve Buscemi · Anne Consigny

Plot A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Curd Jürgens · Robert Donat · Michael David

Plot All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to...

Direction Jack Conway · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Walter Huston · Aline MacMahon · Akim Tamiroff

Plot A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese invaders. The use of caucasian actors and actresses in oriental roles significantly detracts from the film's...

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Radha Mitchell · Chow Yun-Fat · Michelle Yeoh

Plot Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for...

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Ye Liu · Feng Yuanzheng · Tôru Nakamura

Plot Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret...

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Fredric March

Plot The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees...

Direction David Chung

Cast Michelle Yeoh · Richard Ng · Derek Yee · Lowell Lo

Plot Michelle Yeoh stars as a supply pilot in what seems to be western China, where endless plains dominate the landscape. She gets involved in a resistance against an attempted take...

Direction Jun Matsumoto

Plot The story is set in Shanghai in 1931, when the Imperial Japanese Army has been dispatched to mainland China due to the relatively recent First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and...