Marking the 80th anniversary of the brutal massacre in Nanjing by Japanese invaders during WWⅡ, Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation and A + E Networks in the US have co-produced a one-hour docu-drama The Scars of Nanking: the brave who stayed behind.
Poster of The Scars of Nanking: the brave who stayed behind
This documentary that was co-produced by China and the US didn’t apply the traditional mode of the massacre genre. It simply tells the stories witnessed by dozens of foreigners who stayed in Nanjing during the brutal massacre and protected local citizens in any possible ways.
It is the first time that the Massacre has been shot in westerners’ perspectives. And it is also the first time that Nanking Massacre has been presented on the screen of western mainstream media. More audiences in the world will know what happened 80 years ago in Nanjing through this documentary.
Today, we introduce you another excerpt of the Asian version of The Scars of Nanking.
On January 19, 1946, 11 countries including China, the Soviet Union, the UK, the United States, France and Canada set up the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to try 28 Japanese Class A war criminals. It was known as Tokyo Trial.
The court made the judgement that Japan’s domestic policies made during 1928 to 1945 were preparing invasions against China.
With the judgement, can we call it the “full justice”?
80 years ago, Nanjing Massacre left us with the nasty scars and many Japanese people are desperate to find out the truth. However, Japanese right-wing groups have claimed that Nanjing Massacre has never existed, or it was not that bad and brutal as portrayed.
