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Chinese massacre movies clear censors
By MIN LEE,AP Entertainment Writer AP - Monday, March 23
HONG KONG - Two movies set against Japan's slaughter of Chinese citizens in 1937 have been cleared by government censors in Beijing, filmmakers said Monday, paving the way for the first modern Chinese feature films about atrocities that remain a thorny issue in Sino-Japanese relations.
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Director Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death" and the Chinese-German co-production "John Rabe" have both been approved, Lu and Tang Jingting, a publicist for Chinese production company Huayi Brothers, told The Associated Press in phone interviews Monday.
Historians generally agree the Japanese army slaughtered at least 150,000 civilians and raped tens of thousands of women in the 1937 rampage in the eastern city now known as Nanjing.
The killings remain a sore point for many Chinese who believe that Japan hasn't shown sufficient remorse for the atrocities. Demonstrators vandalized Japanese shops and smashed windows at Japanese diplomatic offices in Shanghai and Beijing in April 2005 to protest the alleged whitewashing of atrocities in Japanese textbooks.
Many Japanese conservatives are disgruntled over what they say are exaggerated stories of its brutality during World War II.
Sino-Japanese relations are so sensitive that Chinese censors blocked the release of the 2005 Hollywood movie "Memoirs of a Geisha," apparently worried that the sight of Chinese actresses Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi playing Japanese entertainers would offend many viewers.
Lu said "City of Life and Death," which examines the massacre through the eyes of a Chinese soldier, a Japanese soldier and a foreign missionary, took about five months to clear censors.
"It was a very long process," Lu said, adding that the censors asked for changes on a couple of violent scenes.
Tang said censors also asked for changes to one or two shots in "John Rabe," which is about a German businessman who protected Chinese from the Japanese killings, but that she didn't know which scenes they were.
Tang said "John Rabe" will be released nationally in China on April 28.
Lu said he is still working on the soundtrack of "City of Life and Death" and its release date hasn't been set.
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