Nanjing Massacre film set for Tokyo

A prizewinning Chinese film depicting the 1937 Nanjing Massacre from a Japanese perspective will be screened Sunday in Tokyo.

Directed by Lu Chuan of China, the 2009 film "Nanjing! Nanjing!" features as its central character a Japanese soldier played by Japanese actor Hideo Nakaizumi.

The film, known in English as "City of Life and Death," won the best cinematography award at the 2009 San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain.

The film was screened in China that year and was a major hit. Although it attracted accusations of bias for depicting the murderous December 1937 incident from a Japanese point of view, the controversy helped raise its profile.

It has not yet been screened in Japan because it hasn't been picked up for distribution.

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