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In the last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang's 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This was the massacre of an estimated 260,000 people, and the rape of...
That wish is now coming true in spades. No fewer than six movies about the massacre-including one about Chang herself-are in the works. The first, a documentary called Nanking, premiered at Sundance in January and will be screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in late March...
Leonsis financed the project himself and convinced Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, who made 2003's Oscar-winning 9/11 documentary Twin Towers, to direct. The movie comprises archive footage, interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from the letters and diaries of some of the Westerners in Nanjing, performed by...
Regardless, Nanking is bound to cause deeply uneasy feelings in Japan, where many members of the extreme right either deny that the massacre occurred, or claim that the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal greatly exaggerated the death toll when it concluded that Japanese troops killed about 260,000 Chinese soldiers and...
You read the letters of a U.S. doctor who stayed in Nanking during the invasion. Is that what you would have done?