From the acclaimed Chinese director T.F. Mou (Men Behind The Sun), Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre portrays the ordeals of the members of a poor Chinese family as they try to survive the Japanese occupation of their city. Two young children, Jean and John, escape with their uncle after witnessing the gruesome murder of their mother and father by Japanese soldiers. While feeling from the Japanese, they are separated and the children have to fend for themselves in the war torn city. the film lays bare the pitiless conduct of the Japanese army commanders as they attempt to subjugate the city by any means possible in order to further the cause of the Japanese domination of China and their pursuit of a Greater Asia under Japanese rule.