The Nanking massacre of 1937 – which took place in the Chinese city now called Nanjing – was one of the most horrendous wartime atrocities ever committed. While numbers vary wildly, the Chinese government estimates that more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war were murdered, and tens of thousands of women raped, by the Imperial Japanese Army during the weeks and months that followed the fall of the Chinese city.

Dead to Rights, a new epic set during the occupation, stars Liu Haoran (Detective Chinatown) as A Chang, a postman forced to assist a Japanese army photographer in documenting the unfolding violence.

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