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Buy This Item Nanking by Velocity / Thinkfilm  Available from Amazon  $25.19  on 11-29-2008     NANKING (DVD MOVIE) Reader Reviews There are several very good movies about the Rape of Nanking. This is not one of them. Everything about the movie is a disappointment, beginning with the fact it was made for all the wrong reasons by a producer and director who admitted from the outset they knew nothing about the subject when they decided to make this film. Why make a movie about something you know nothing about? The film stars Woody Harrelson, the joke-cracking bartender from the TV comedy show "Cheers." Woody Harrleson starring in the Nanjing Massacre? Was Woody Allen not available? What was the point of showing Japanese propaganda films depicting Japanese soldiers giving food to Chinese children? Why have a bunch of actors reading, yes, actually reading out loud from books? Was it too much trouble to have them learn their lines? There is no passion, no depth, the motives of the Japanese and the feelings of the victims and the betrayals which led up to this massacre go unexplained. One gets the sense this film was quickly thrown together by people who cared nothing about this issue but who were simply eager to capitalize on and to exploit the 70th anniversary of this tragedy to make a lot of money. They failed. The film bombed in China. The only thing the producer and director were good at, was getting a lot of publicity for a very bad movie.

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