Nanking," a U.S.-made film documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing on July 3. The 90-minute movie, co-directed by Oscar-winner Bill Guttentag and producer Dan Sturman, will open in mainland China in general release on July 7, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Japan's full-scale invasion of China.
The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "the Rape of Nanking," planned for release this year in memory of the 70th anniversary of the fall of China's war-time capital to invading Japanese troops on December 13, 1937.
China says Japanese troops slaughtered 300,000 civilian men, women and children in Nanjing, then known as Nanking. An Allied tribunal after World War Two put the death toll at about 142,000.
"Nanking" drew warm applause from Chinese viewers, several of whom were moved to tears.(Source: Reuters, The Washington Post, Jul 3, 2007).