In the Name of the Emperor (1998)
- Original title
- In The Name of the Emperor
- Directed by
- Christine Choy, Nancy Tong
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Rating
- 9.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary presents the 1937 massacre of over 300000 Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in Nanjing, known as the Rape of Nanjing. It uses home movie footage from an American missionary to show the systematic violence that occurred over six weeks under Emperor Hirohito.
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