City of Life and Death/Heartwarming

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  • The depressing tone in the rest of movie makes this a nice little moment: when Kadokawa visits the jaded prostitute Yuriko and gives New Year's presents to her. She expects him to just screw her and leave, when he starts pulling out gifts from his bag. Sake, candy, chocolate cake...
  • In Real Life, John Rabe and his family went hungry when the famine hit Germany after World War II. They survived on food packets and money sent to them from China.
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