In order to truly restore the history, "Nanjing! Nanjing!" adopted the black-and-white film method. This is a rare case of a black-and-white movie entering the cinema in many years. According to insiders, it is a shocking movie. The number of copies distributed nationwide has exceeded 1400, surpassing the highest record set by "Red Cliff" at that time.
Throughout the entire film, the tone of the black-and-white images is heavy and tragic. The scenes of Japanese troops massacring prisoners are so cruel as to be suffocating: prisoners were locked in houses and burned to death, driven to the river bank and shot by machine guns, stabbed to death with bayonets or buried alive. Various methods of massacre are shocking. Reporters observed that during the more than two-hour screening, sobs could be heard from the audience from time to time.