In The Name of the Emperor 1998

  • 1998-10-02
  • 50m
  • Christine Choy, Nancy Tong
  • Canada
  • English
  • Film News Now Foundation + 1 more, National Film Board of Canada
  • Documentary
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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