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Nanjing Massacre Film Set Becomes China School Holiday Hotspot

The set of "Dead to Rights", a Chinese film about the 1937 Nanjing massacre, is located at a suburban Shanghai film park and now open to the public (Credit: AFP)

The sound of machine gun fire rattled around collapsed buildings as schoolchildren eagerly explored the ravaged streets of 1930s Nanjing, delighted to be visiting the set of a Chinese blockbuster about a historic massacre.

Slickly produced and star-studded, "Dead to Rights" is set in Nanjing, then China's capital, during six weeks of mass murder, rape and looting by the Japanese army in 1937 that killed tens if not hundreds of thousands.

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