Don't Cry, Nanking

1995 · 120 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 280 VOTES · DIR. Wu Ziniu

Don't Cry, Nanking poster

Overview

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.

Dialogue Timeline — 720 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:03:19 Cheng-xian, you really think Nanking's safe?
00:06:36 l need a place to stay.
00:09:55 Gary! Gary!
00:11:52 Let's go children.
00:14:49 We're going to take Nanking.
00:19:05 Be good and go home with your mother.
00:22:33 My orders are to die protecting the city.
00:25:06 Mother, the school closed today.
00:28:22 Rieko
00:30:28 He's been quite naughty the last couple of days.
00:33:49 What about the calvary?
00:36:04 Please read after me.
00:40:24 Grandpa, l won't go.
00:46:40 Don't make any mistakes.
00:50:11 Once again.
00:53:26 - Shoichi. - Yes sir.
01:02:48 What will we eat if we go back?
01:05:27 Don't kill him. l need a helper.
01:08:46 Please make a way.
01:14:18 Number 1 06.
01:20:44 lf it hadn't been for this war, l might have been your cook.
01:24:19 Nothing fancy
01:30:45 We need women to do the laundry.
01:43:18 ''Nanking''.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed720
Dialogue density6.0 lines / min
First line00:03:19
Final line01:43:18

Production Record

DirectorWu Ziniu
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes280