In the news: Nanking, an documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre in which some 300,000 Chinese were murdered made the rounds to rave review at the Sundance festival (Google Sundance for more info) last week.
Also, "China has reacted angrily to plans by Japanese nationalists to make a documentary describing as a myth the massacre of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops in 1937.
"The film, entitled The Truth About Nanjing, will insist that the massacre never took place, despite evidence presented at the postwar Tokyo war crimes tribunals that Japanese troops slaughtered at least 142,000 people when they invaded Nanjing, then the capital of nationalist China." (China angered by Nanjing massacre film, Guardian, January 25, 2007).
Nanking is produced by Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of America Online and owner of Washington Capitals hockey team. Leonsis is said to have been inspired by The Rape of Nanking, a best-selling novel by Iris Chang, who committed suicide in 2004. The Japanese movie will be made by right-wing nationalists who have always denied everything.
On Saturday, I watched Nightmare in Nanking, another documentary (by Rhawn Joseph and Joy Wu) on the subject. The first time for me to sit through such a film, and I had to take a break halfway through to recover from the sickness some of the film's grisly images had given me.
Right now, we are in the middle of marking the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, which happened from December 1937 to February 1938.
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