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* AnyoneCanDie
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* AnyoneCanDieAnyoneCanDie: If a character has a name, they're unlikely to outlive the credits. This movie has a huge cast list, and most of them doesn't outlive the credits.
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* BrokenBird: Several women are broken.
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* BrokenBird: Several women are broken.broken thanks to the various atrocities forcefully inflicted upon them by the Japanese.
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* KillEmAll: Subverted in the end and in the Safety Zone.
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* DeadlineNews: When the Japanese forces first entered the city of Nanking, they were accompanied by a reporter and his cameraman from the Asahi News Agency. [[spoiler:The convoy was ambushed and almost entirely wiped out. However, the cameraman ended up being the only survivor and even managed to escape the ambush and sound the alarm, dooming the Chinese resistance in the city.]]
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* RedshirtReporter: When the Japanese forces first entered the city of Nanking, they were accompanied by a reporter and his cameraman from the Asahi News Agency. [[spoiler:The convoy was ambushed and almost entirely wiped out. However, it was still averted since the cameraman ended up being the only survivor and even managed to escape the ambush and sound the alarm, dooming the Chinese resistance in the city.]]
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This film was dangerously close to being BannedInChina, because it humanized the Japanese. The director received lots of [[InternetToughGuy online death threats]], and it would've been pulled from Chinese cinemas if not for the support of a Communist Party official, who was a huge fan.
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This film was dangerously close to being BannedInChina, because it humanized the Japanese. The director received lots of [[InternetToughGuy [[InternetJerk online death threats]], and it would've been pulled from Chinese cinemas if not for the support of a Communist Party official, who was a huge fan.
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* DeathOfAChild: With Extreme Prejudice. Several schoolgirls are raped, the children hiding in a confessional are gunned down, and [[spoiler: Tang's daughter is flung out of a window]].
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. With Extreme Prejudice. Several schoolgirls are raped, the children hiding in a confessional are gunned down, and [[spoiler: Tang's daughter is flung out of a window]].
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* ApologeticAttacker: John Rabe, when he is forced to announce that the female refugees are to serve the Japanese Troops as [[SexSlave sex slaves]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: John Rabe. He may be a member of the Nazi party, but he is ''horrified'' by the Japanese armies ruthless treatment of the Chinese and does everything in his power to save as many refugees as he can.
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* OnlySaneMan: Subverted in a way. At first glance, to the viewers Kadokawa is the only sane person among the Japanese grunts. Then we have scenes of them hanging out, having a fun time, playing the piano and singing old-time love songs together...it's dissonant. Even stranger, and TruthInTelevision, is the fact that some of these soldiers went home after this horrendous war, to become shy and polite [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]]...
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* OnlySaneMan: Subverted in a way. At first glance, to the viewers Kadokawa is the only sane person among the Japanese grunts. Then we have scenes of them hanging out, having a fun time, playing the piano and singing old-time love songs together... it's dissonant. Even stranger, and TruthInTelevision, is the fact that some of these soldiers went home after this horrendous war, to become shy and polite [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]]...
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Kadokawa. He's the only Japanese soldier to appear ''remotely'' disturbed by the atrocities being committed and has actual empathy for the helpless civilians.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: A deliberate one to ''Film/SchindlersList'', attempting to do for the Rape of Nanking what the previous film did for the Holocaust, right down to the [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white photography.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: The movie's Japanese characters are composites of historical figures from the real-life Nanking Massacre, with fictional names.
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* CompositeCharacter: The movie's Japanese characters are composites of historical figures from the real-life Nanking Massacre, with fictional names.names, while Commander Ida is a stand-in for Prince Asaka.
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* UnsafeHaven: The Safety Zone in Nanking. By the end, the Japanese don't even bother get "search warrants" to go in there for rape and pillage. The zone was abolished the following year.
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* UnsafeHaven: The Safety Zone in Nanking. By the end, the Japanese don't even bother to get "search warrants" to go in there for rape and pillage. The zone was abolished the following year.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Rabe collaborates with the Japanese authorities, albeit very reluctantly. The eager-to-please Mr. Tang also does it, until the day they [[spoiler:throw his little daughter from a window]], [[ForTheEvulz just for laughs]].
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* LesCollaborateurs: Rabe collaborates with the Japanese authorities, albeit very reluctantly. The eager-to-please Mr. Tang also does it, until the day they [[spoiler:throw his little daughter from a window]], [[ForTheEvulz just for laughs]].
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During the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, the Imperial Japanese Army lays siege to the city of Nanking, the capital of China at the time. When they destroy the Nationalist Chinese troops in [[CurbStompBattle a fierce battle]], the city falls. The people of Nanking try to cope with life, even as their lives gradually become hell on earth. Shot in black-and-white entirely, most of the story follows Mrs. Jiang, a steely-eyed school teacher who is determined to protect her people from the invasion, Lu, a veteran Nationalist officer who leads an army remnant in street battles against all odds, and Kadokawa, a young and dreamy Japanese soldier who is torn between his hard-wired obedience to ImperialJapan and his own empathy for defenseless people.
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During the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, the Imperial Japanese Army lays siege to the city of Nanking, the capital of China at the time. When they destroy the Nationalist Chinese troops in [[CurbStompBattle a fierce battle]], the city falls. The people of Nanking try to cope with life, even as their lives gradually become hell on earth. Shot in black-and-white entirely, most of the story follows Mrs. Jiang, a steely-eyed school teacher who is determined to protect her people from the invasion, Lu, a veteran Nationalist officer who leads an army remnant in street battles against all odds, and Kadokawa, a young and dreamy Japanese soldier who is torn between his hard-wired obedience to ImperialJapan UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and his own empathy for defenseless people.
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* ShoutOut: The bleak DeliberatelyMonochrome footage was meant as a homage to ''SchindlersList''.
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* ShoutOut: The bleak DeliberatelyMonochrome footage was meant as a homage to ''SchindlersList''.''Film/SchindlersList''.
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* BoomHeadshot: How [[spoiler: Mrs. Jiang]] dies.
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Kadokawa kills Mrs. Jiang with a bullet to the head, in order to spare her getting gang-raped to death.]]
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Kadokawa kills Mrs. Jiang with [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the head, head]], in order to spare her getting gang-raped to death.]]
