How was the movie? It's something I'd really want to see, but unfortunately, I'm in China now.

 

I was very physically/emotionally drained afterwards. Great story, but I had no idea this stuff happened. Eye opening.

 

It was never meant to be seen, Japanese never teach or talk about their passed " BAD HISTORY" in school, it never took place.

 

Yeah, I bet it was quite emotional...

It's actually something that most non-Chinese don't know about, but something that every Chinese probably knows. I was told about it in childhood from my father. During his days in the ROC military, they were taught about what happened, and shown pictures and such of what happened in Nanking. He didn't elaborate too much on what they were shown, but told me that it was enough to bring tears to the eyes of the grown soldiers present that day.

The author of the book the movie was adapted from wrote it with the intention of letting more in the western world know about the subject.

It, and many other Japanese wartime things were hushed up in the west during aftermath of WWII, as in return, the US government got many research, technology, and other documents and intelligence from Japan.

I'm glad that more and more people are going to know about it from the movie now.

It's a very controversial subject to this day, and a continuing cause of Japanese/Chinese tensions.

I don't know if it's still true today, but as recently as 15 years ago, the extent that most Japanese university level students were taught and knew about WWII was that a war happened, and the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan.

 

The sad part is she actually committed suicide. Very sad story. She was a very promising writer.

 

it's always been interesting to me that it's not taught in schools here and that the japanese don't teach their kids either, as opposed to the germans and the nazi atrocities. we all learn and know about it, and in fact, in germany, i hear that all german children are taught about it and sort of even have it programmed in their heads to be ashamed of that kind of behavior.

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my grandparents lived through this.. My grandma who still alive, still talk about this.

 

going this week to see this movie!

 

I had learned about this and saw some pretty bad pictures when I was in school in Taiwan. I am glad this movie was made and out to the Western world. I really recommend everyone to watch it even if you are not Asian. It's a history to give us all a lesson to learn and it's not hashing out old stuff , hating Japanese or anything like that.

Too bad majority of audience were elderly people last night, I wish more younger people would go watch. The film is also showing in SF and Berkely.

 

What I don't get is that how can some Japanese claim this was never happened? Or they had only killed Chinese soldiers. They said the pix were fabricated by Chinese government. I can see that happens to todays digital world with pix editing. But back then? How did you get those pictures of dead people all over the ground with heads cut off, or naked woman/babies piled up like a mountain?