
Director Lu Chuan (2nd L) instructs extras before the start of filming for the movie Nanking! Nanking! in the city of Tianjin, December 10, 2007. The Chinese publications, released to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, include the names, ages, sex, occupations and residential addresses of the victims, which Japanese army unit was responsible and how the victims were killed. The lists are part of a 27-volume series of historical materials on the massacre and were released before Dec. 13, the day in 1937 when Japanese troops took over the city. [Agencies]

Actor Gao Yuanyuan (R) prepares for filming to start on the set of the movie 'Nanking! Nanking!' in the city of Tianjin, December 10, 2007. [Agencies]