[Terror Grand Platter] The Nanjing Massacre on the Silver Screen: Blood and Tears That Cannot Be Expressed in Words

Not long ago, the movie "The Flowers of War" which was热烈ly shown in the cinema once again revealed the always painful scar of the Nanjing Massacre.

Looking back, the appearance of this heavy historical theme on the screen is actually quite late. In terms of the situation in the mainland, before the reform and opening up, there were basically no films related to this topic (documentaries are not included). It was not until the late 1980s that images with the theme of the Nanjing Massacre appeared on the big screen. Of course, this does not mean that this historical event was sealed away for a long time. In fact, soon after the Nanjing Massacre occurred, some foreigners at the time reported to the international public opinion about the Japanese army's burning, killing and looting in Nanjing. The Nationalist Government also paid great attention to this incident, and as early as 1945, it established a special "Nanjing Investigation Committee for Enemy Crimes", which began the earliest systematic investigation of the Nanjing Massacre, collecting a large number of human and material evidence. In the later trial of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the evidence provided by the committee played an important role.

This issue of Movie Network 163 [Horror Buffet] will take you through the Nanjing Massacre presented on the screen, those blood and tears that cannot be expressed in words.