have see men behind the sun i guess i hop for an evolution in style and technique to match the large scale of this movie . i be also quite interested to see someone make a hard hitting fact base fictionalised account of what happen during this most notorious of japanese atrocity and but this be not it . this play like a bottom to mid tier european nazi exploitation movie from the 70 e. g. ss experiment camp etc ( perhaps more like deported woman of the special section actually ) . grant it have a great scope and more people run around and but it resort to the same cheap and cheerless device of lot of hapless non actor limply fall over to the sound of ridiculously fake gunshot and spice up with the occasional poorly execute hock sequence . the admittedly horrible documentary footage be roughly splice in between scene so hackneyed that even these real image be rob of much of their power . watch channel 4 the holocaust ( air recently ( still run . ) and a of 1 no 2006 ) for a genuinely disturbing documentary on the evil of war ( feature excellent in context use of actual footage ) . this be the type of treatment the horror of nanjing deserves and not this hackneyed exploitation garbage ( a well execute exploitation movie minus the disrespectful use of stock footage would have be fine and but again this be not even a very good exploitation movie ) . rating represent 3 ( 5 a exploitation and 1 a a treatment of the subject ) .