The dance was made up for this movie. There are taiko drum clubs all over the world, so don't be surprised that those are Chinese drummers.

Matrim Cauthon they are japanese believe me. The director confirmed it

If Vietnam produces an ancient war movie depicting the Chinese invasion and annex of Vietnam, any Chinese actors who take part in the movie will be branded a traitor by their fellow Chinese. The Japanese have taken part in war movies which portrayed the atrocities the WW2 Japanese army did to the Chinese, Koreans and Taiwanese.

J Bo

Maybe a western audience wouldn't notice or even understand the difference between the Chinese and the Japanese, but a Chinese audience would expect that the Japanese troops to be played by Japanese actors and vice versa.

Yes, and it sounded like that Camp Rock dance

David Thomas pervert

Which boy?

@@grossleg123 LMAO!!!

Regardless of history, this is creative film making.

Yes this march is cool asf you cant change my mind

Shut up

Shut up pussy

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The bandit-hooligans not only spread the red virus to the Koreans, but also brainwashed their people to take part in invading the Korea Peninsula, bringing calamities to the people of Korea, separating families, and resulting the Koreans still living in a hellish prison today. The Americans helped stop the communism poison from spreading and South Korea became a democracy, in which the people enjoy freedom, prosperity and human rights. When China decided to open up, South Korea, together with the US, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore supported it and participated in heavy investment, transfer of technology knowhow and sharing economic wisdom. All these countries are not framed as 'anti-China'.

A dramatization of the rape of Nanking in 1937. ... In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital.

@@ktkska8886 Two terrible faces stare out from “City of Life and Death,” a fictionalized telling of the Rape of Nanjing, a pair of indelible bookends for this anguished film. The first belongs to Lu (Liu Ye), who, with hundreds of other soldiers, has been rounded up by invading Japanese troops amid a frenzy of violence.

@@ktkska8886 Japanese army celebrate the conquest of Nanking with a march through the city. They are dancing for senior officers.

Japanese army celebrate the conquest of Nanking with a march through the city. They are dancing for senior officers.

A dramatization of the rape of Nanking in 1937. ... In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital.

Two terrible faces stare out from “City of Life and Death,” a fictionalized telling of the Rape of Nanjing, a pair of indelible bookends for this anguished film. The first belongs to Lu (Liu Ye), who, with hundreds of other soldiers, has been rounded up by invading Japanese troops amid a frenzy of violence.

Japanese army celebrate the conquest of Nanking with a march through the city. They are dancing for senior officers.

stakisolo Agreed, I really like Japan in general. Not for their bloody history and the fact they didn't really apologized for their war crimes but this is amazing as hell, I remember having the chills when I saw it in theater...

What was the point of this

@@billyjoe8185 a victory celebration basically

@@TimezOfInfamy Nah its a dance of respect to the dead soldiers

Did it really? Didn't know that.

Bro have you even seen this movie? This scene is in the aftermath of the battle in 1938. Also at the start of the movie in December 1937 it is snowing.

Well their not gonna wait 6 months to start filming.

​@@DarkStormProduction5the battle only lasted days, and in this scene you can see smoke and battle debris and the white boxes carried on the soldiers chests are the ashes of their comrades. All this points to the scene being just after the end of the fighting, scene it would still have been cold and icey, not summer conditions.

It seems that the world is holding what the grandfathers of the Japanese did in WW2 but are very indulgent or even support what the Americans have done to the Afghanis, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians and the Christian Serbs.

@@grossleg123 I agree Dave; he's obviously an idiot.

Dean Cox 👍

@@ktkska8886 true

What is this dance exactly?

Talos402000 i think its the name of all the soldiers that died?

ashes of those soldiers who had died

I believe they’re the cremated ashes of the soldiers who died during the siege. I’ve seen videos of these same boxes being given to the wives of Japan when the soldiers were shipped back home.

City of Life and Death

そうですね。 徳島行った時見ていたんです。

Ehm... see the title.

@@Disconnectmyself got it! Thanks.

Yes, that they said in Pear Harbor

@天王平家万歳 Mauro Mejias to that i say, we take cities for harbors no matter what nations attack us, you see its quite simple 1 harbor for 2 cities

@天王平家万歳 Mauro Mejias your obviously missing the joke, i mean if you think im patriotic, you havent looked at my name, also the whole iran thing is over its been over 2 months

@天王平家万歳 Mauro Mejias also tf is china is raising mean?

It is a spiritual march. I don’t exactly remember it’s purpose but I think it was performed so the spirits of the dead soldiers would be able to return to Japan or something.

Are you turkish

Adem Kolukırık No

Они дейсвительно похожи на немецких нацистов

City Of Life And Death город жизни и смерти

@@audreysharonyap6983 They fought better than 1940’s Germany too

Chuck Norris idiot shameful people and sneaky buggers

Peak weeaboo.

People with the "best culture ever" could not have ever brought themselves to savagely torture and murder millions of innocent people, men, women and babies.

Ok I'm going out to say this and take it as you will but Asians have been especially cruel to eachother for 1000s of years now the Japanese have been worse even before the 20th Century. Look at the Invasions of Korea in the 1500s....bringing loot they pillaged and trophies aka the heads of the Koreans they killed. Mostly civilians. This shit isn't new....it isn't even just set in just Asia or Japan! This shit has been going on since we Humans discovered we could kill eachother just by looking a little different! Numbers of bodies doesn't matter! Crime is a fucking crime! Nothing that will change what happened! Whinning about it wont help. No matter what happens this will happen again with another militaristic culture. All we can do is be aware and hope and work as hard as possible to minimize its affects and maybe even prevent it from happening again but us yelling at others and eachother on the internet on our comfortable sofas or chairs is NOT doing shit. So....hush and watch.

I find your statement very interesting and intriguing. What do you mean by this ?

Would you like a fuso?

Because the nationalist troops matched their fanaticism in battle and fought to the last man

Your point is quite correct, I study history at university and when I tell them about the second Sino-Japanese war, they didn't even knew Japan ever invaded China...

@@RG-gw2sp it’s crazy because you can say WW2 started when Japan invaded China in 1939 but not many talk about it.

Wtf, that because Japanese army mostly fight millions of Chinese soldier. It was Japanese navy that mostly fought allies soldiers

MrKUIDAORE

If you're trying to say that the events depicted in this film are false that's some holocaust denial type shit. Second, this scene takes place well after the battle and massacre.

But there was a fat man and little boy there

Sounded like 'free first' ,....,lol

오키나와랑 관계 없음. 이 춤은 일본 도쿠시마 현의 전통 춤임.

小日子活不了多久了

@dopey Japan had the bravest army in ww2 deal with it,and Japan killing innocents? Yeah because the other countries dindt do that shit

They weren't brave back then, brace men don't torture and eat defenseless civillians and pows. The Japanese had written orders stating they could eat people who weren't japanese.

Found the Chinese sympathizer lol

Why is it banned?

@@penggoh9934 i believe the japanese does this dances during ww2 after slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians. This particular scene is during the rape of nanking.

It looks awesome though.

You know, the Chinese die more is the communist revolution than when they were under the Japanese Occupation. Not that it's right to kill people, I am just saying.

China is shamelessly and ungratefully bullying little Taiwan, Vietnam and has been bullying the Tibetans and Uighurs. The Han Chinese expanded its territories by bullying and invading the homelands of the minorities. China invaded and annexed Vietnam in the past for more than a thousand years. The Chinese have never felt guilty or shameful that in the previous century, it exported the communism poison to the Korean Peninsula and Indo-China, bringing calamities to their people. Are you not aware of Malaysia and Singapore were also victims. Do you know the Chinese in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma and Indonesia suffer atrocities as a result of China's spreading its Maxis venom to the region. Go study modern history. China has always been bullying the weak but has never have the guts to confront powerful nations, such as Japan and Russia.

Everyone is weak today my friend we lack honor

@@JasonAstraea damn you scorched bruh.