Nanking
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:29 pm
http://www.nankingthefilm.com/
Just got done watching this. Holy shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
Basically back in the late 30's when the Japanese invaded China, they were particularly brutal with Nanking, which was at then the capital of China. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, tons were brutally raped, fathers were forced to rape their daughters, sons forced to rape their mothers, celibate monks were forced to rape women, regular Chinese dudes were forced to have sex with dead women, people were beheaded, burned alive, tortured, etc, etc.
A small group of Westerners (mainly Americans and Germans, I believe) banded together and made a "safe zone" for Chinese refugees to get away from the Japanese to varying degrees of success. The documentary is some actors reading letters, journal entries and so-on from the Westerners set to Nanking footage. There's also interviews with Chinese survivors. Some of the shit they talk about is unreal. They've got some Japanese veterans from Nanking as well. Some come off remorseful, others matter of factly and one smiles real big and chuckles while talking about raping and bayonetting Chinese folks.
I think most well-read people have at least heard a little bit about Nanking, but for something that I would consider the worst single attrocity of an attrocity-laden century, it doesn't get discussed much and those responsible didn't suffer nearly the consequences as their counterparts in Germany.
Anyways, good documentary. Highly recommended.
Just got done watching this. Holy shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
Basically back in the late 30's when the Japanese invaded China, they were particularly brutal with Nanking, which was at then the capital of China. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, tons were brutally raped, fathers were forced to rape their daughters, sons forced to rape their mothers, celibate monks were forced to rape women, regular Chinese dudes were forced to have sex with dead women, people were beheaded, burned alive, tortured, etc, etc.
A small group of Westerners (mainly Americans and Germans, I believe) banded together and made a "safe zone" for Chinese refugees to get away from the Japanese to varying degrees of success. The documentary is some actors reading letters, journal entries and so-on from the Westerners set to Nanking footage. There's also interviews with Chinese survivors. Some of the shit they talk about is unreal. They've got some Japanese veterans from Nanking as well. Some come off remorseful, others matter of factly and one smiles real big and chuckles while talking about raping and bayonetting Chinese folks.
I think most well-read people have at least heard a little bit about Nanking, but for something that I would consider the worst single attrocity of an attrocity-laden century, it doesn't get discussed much and those responsible didn't suffer nearly the consequences as their counterparts in Germany.
Anyways, good documentary. Highly recommended.