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In The Name of the Emperor (1998)

In The Name of the Emperor (1998)

Documentary
Release Date: 1998, October 2
Directors: Christine Choy, Nancy Tong
Countries: Canada
Production: Film News Now Foundation, Film News Now Foundation, ONF | NFB, ONF | NFB

Overview:

A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped, tortured, and killed many of the inhabitants of that city. This is a matter-of-fact although polemical documentary, with many of the horrifyingly intense images taken from home movies made by an American missionary who was there.

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