American.
From the refuge.
American.
Not soldier.
John Miller.
Working at the church.
Separated...
You separated from your families?
You...
families...
separated?
Winchester Cathedral.
You know where it is?
Mister.
Did you say...
Did you say "mister?"
Who said "mister?"
You speak English?
We are from Winchester Cathedral.
Say that again.
We are from Winchester Cathedral.
You're kidding?
We are students at the convent.
You going there?
Why do you want to go there?
I am helping to bury your father.
Well, not your father father...
Father Ingleman.
Father Ingleman, yeah.
I am helping burying him.
Father Ingleman, I am sending him off...
to heaven or wherever.
You show me the way?
Father Ingleman...
fly away.
Fly away?
On here, Japanese, bomb.
- He flew away with the bomb, right. - Yes.
Why was the deceased out here?
- Gu. All because of Gu. - Gu?
He said, bad smell.
He moved the body here.
Who's Gu?
Gu is our cook.
He ran away.
He leaves some students here.
Some students took away by parents.
Some students nowhere to go.
So who's inside?
Just you and the girls?
Just you and the girls.
Even without a body,
you got to pay me.
No.
No... You got to pay me.
No.
That's the rule.
There's nothing I can do about it.
With what I came through,
I should raise the price.
So is the money inside?
No. No money.
Money? Inside?
No.
Come on.
There's no money inside?
No.
Let's look.
It's a Catholic church.
There's got to be some cash inside.
No.
No?
You say anything but no?
Can you fix truck?
Help us.
Leave Nanking.
Fix this truck?
For free?
No.
I can take parts, sell parts.
You got tools?
No.
Let's get inside.
Hey.
Hey. Stop.
Stop.
I am John. Hi.
I am American.
I know it's hard.
But you have got to stop fighting everybody.
You know you two... you have seen enough...
seen enough tragedy for a lifetime today.
I can't... um...
I am not good with kids.
Let's go.
You want some flour? You like some flour?
- Make some bread for the girls. - Buns.
Buns.
Buns, whatever.
Let's go find the collection box.
Where?
- Upstairs? - No.
Oh, nice.
Forget going back to the refuge,
I think I am bunking here tonight.
He's grim, who's that?
Is that Father Ingleman?
Yes.
These North Europeans they're all like,
you know, tuna, playwrights,
not much fun.
Look at that face,
he's ruining the...
What do you call it? Feng... Fengshui?
I can't have a priest staring at me
- while I am sleeping. - No...
My father.
Me...
orphan...
adopted.
I am sorry.
But I just...
It's not good for me to have a priest
staring at me while I am sleeping.
I can't.
Please, I got to just... there, better.
You got any drink around here?
No.
You're a church. You got wine, something?
Nothing.
Nothing?
- No. - No, no...
That's a shaving kit.
What did you say your name was?
George Chen.
George.
Tomorrow,
you fix truck,
help us.
Fix truck?
No money.
Money, George.
Where's Gu? Ask him to come out.
Come up here.
This was stolen from the bowels of hell.
Long time not make bread.
Long time not make bread? No bread?
Not tonight, tonight we're having bread.
George,
you little shit,
you said there was no wine here.
Excuse me.
What's he saying?
Holy hooch.
How dare you drink the wine.
Now the Westerner knows about the wine.
We sell the wine to raise money for orphans.
We're all orphans.
We also need help.
What are they saying?
They said they're orphans.
Orphans?
Well, I'd like to adopt all of you,
right now.
Adopt all of us?
You would not be able to cope.
You speak English?
My name is John.
And you are?
I like that.
So what do you and your companions do?
We are kindergarten teachers.
Really? Kindergarten teachers.
And you?
What do you do?
I am also a kindergarten teacher.
So as,
teacher to teacher,
you want to...
get together and have a cup of joe, or...
There's no coffee.
Let's get liquored up.
The kindergarten fee is enough?
You coming?
I want you to take us out of Nanking.
Yeah.
Right.
We do this first?
I am serious.
Why else do you think we were flirting with you?
Out of Nanking, how?
I don't know how,
but I know your face is the way out of here.
The Japanese won't touch Westerners.
Did you see it out there?
That's not happening.
No.
Cash enough?
Because... let's...
Are you kidding?
Wait...
Let's work this out. Let's work it out.
Think about it.
If you help us,
I will thank you in ways
you can never imagine.
All of us will.
Can I get an advance?
Don't point a gun at a man of the cloth.
Mo.
Like me as a priest? Do you?
I dressed up for you.
I got a chance now?
What, the bank's closed for me, but he gets...
He gets a special soldier discount or something?
What's wrong with you?
I want to help you.
I have joined the priesthood.
Stop it. It's not the right time.
You don't want cash.
You want me to save you.
I am going to save your soul.
I will absolve you of your sins tonight.
Blessed are thee among women.
Blessed are thy lips, blessed are thy eyes,
blessed are thy hips...
Don't.
And thy gams, and thy chest...
Stop it.
- Stop it. - I got to...
Stop it.
You drunk bastard.
This is a house of love not war,
you get out of here.
See,
I am the only man for you.
I like it when you're angry.
Harder.
I will never be into you.
Get off me.
I love that.
I love seeing you walk away.
I love seeing that ass.
Mo.
Stop.
This is a house of the Lord.
These are children.
You are breaking the laws of man and of God.
No soldiers here.
You have no business being here.
I am the priest.
And I command you,
in the name of the Father to leave now.
Girls, you come up here now.
Come up these stairs,
and stand behind me.
You're honorable men,
behave honorably.
Stop. Stop this. Stop. Run.
Stop this. Don't...
Were our soldiers here recently?
Are you the resident priest?
Yes.
Father,
I apologize on behalf of our soldiers.
Please understand.
In the middle of a war,
occasional unfortunate behavior is inevitable.
Your church
is very beautiful.
How do you do?
Are you students here at the convent?
So sorry to have caused you alarm.
Please...
don't hurt the children any more.
Naturally.
My name is Hasegawa.
I am responsible for the safety of this area.
Please do not worry...
about the security of the church
and the students.
I apologize...
but I have no confidence... in that assurance.
My guarantee is effective.
From now on,
I shall post armed guards in front of the church
to protect you all.
There is not a lot of food
in Nanking at the moment.
I hope the students will not go hungry.
May I?
Thank you.
Did you like it?
This is a Japanese folk song,
"My Home."
It is about hills and rabbits,
and streams full of fish.
It is the most beautiful song in the world
for those who are homesick.
Do the students sing well?
Very well, yes.
That's good.
I shall come back
in a couple of days to hear them.
Why?
No reason.
I happen to love music.
Father, we shall meet again soon.
I hope you will not be lonely buried together.
Father John.
You won't leave us, will you?
Why not answer Shu?
She called me Father John.
We all need you.
I am a mortician.
You are priest.
No.
- If we have a priest... - George.
Maybe Japanese...
not dare...
You are priest.
George, I am not.
I am not a priest.
I am not.
I stayed here,
because I was looking for your cash.
And because that's the nicest bed that
I have slept in in years. I didn't get there.
But is that like a priest? I am not a priest.
I am not.
I took catechism lessons as a kid.
Sometimes I remember that when I am drunk,
which I am as often as I can be.
You not be priest.
Tell girls yourself.
You little shit.
You are.
We have heard about what happen today.
So you're staying?
Yeah.
Even though you were
a drunk bastard last night,
what you did today makes you a hero.
I am sorry about last night.
Yeah.
I can't leave them by themselves.
And that little shit
has a way of just... you know.
What do you think the Japanese are up to?
Are they really here to protect the students?
We were counting on having you
help us leave Nanking.
But I guess now you will have to
stay here and be a priest.
Yeah, right.
Priest.
Actually, I came to tell you,
our offer is still good.
We still want you to help us escape.
As soon as the Japanese guards are gone.
Just now the ladies were having a bet.
They said that hero or no hero,
you don't stand a chance
when you're up against a beauty like me.
Don't flatter yourself.
We will see.
You work for the Japanese?
Since I cannot save my country,
cannot save others,
I can only try to save myself.
I am already doing my best, you know.
Do you think it's easy
working for the Japanese?
It's good you work for the Japanese,
that helps us.
What is your plan for your daughter?
I would like to try,
and use my connections with the Japanese
to get my daughter out of the city.
Not to the refuge?
The refuge?
It's not safe there at all.
What's your plan for the rest of the girls?
Mr. Meng?
I have this truck.
If I can get the right tools,
then maybe I can get it started.
Can you help me?
I have a list here.
Mr. Meng.
I need these tools.
Can you help me get them?
You're the only one who can get them for me.
I need these tools.
Take this.
If I fix the truck...
If I fix the truck, what then?
How would I know?
Wait, wait.
If I fix the truck,
what would I need then?
Of course you will need a permit.
I need a permit?
I need a permit.
Don't look at me.
It's too risky.
Even if you fix the truck,
how would you get past the Japanese guards?
I don't know.
I don't know how long
the guards will stay here.
But I want to get that truck started
for when they leave.
It seems that you know more than just drinking.
I don't think she likes seeing us together.
She has a crush on you.
Really?
You know, I was like her.
Yeah?
I was at a convent for six years.
That's where you learned your English?
What happened?
Just another story of misfortune.
It wouldn't interest a passerby like yourself.
Yeah, it would.
Tell me.
I was never meant to be like this.
Never mind.
You know what?
I was the best in my English class,
but everyone used to mock me.
They said I put on airs and graces
and acted like I was the Queen of England.
Well, that's not what you were going to tell me, but...
So... the Queen of England.
You mean you're not?
I thought... yeah.
Like Shu, I too had a crush on someone.
But he was a young, fresh-faced guy,
got the most beautiful eyes,
not a dirty, bearded man like you.
Ok.
What happened?
Dou and Lan snuck out on their own.
Dou and Lan?
How? How did they leave?
I don't know.
You know when?
No.
Where did they go?
They went back to our brothel to get pipa strings.
You want me to... go find them?
Yeah.
Mo, I am not sure that they are... Please.
Please. Please.
Alright, it's safer for me
than anyone else, so I will try.
I will try.
If I can leave. If they let me leave.
Candles, food.
There is no food.
They need food.
With no food.
No singing.
Hasegawa asks girls to sing.
Singing for the girls.
Hasegawa asks.
But no singing with no food.
And candles for Hasegawa.
I go get food.
Girl sing. Hasegawa happy. Yes?
I go now.
George, you're not coming.
I go, for food?
Yes?
George, you're not coming.
Go back inside.
Yes?
Make Hasegawa happy.
This is fine, I go. Thank you.
Terry?
Terry.
John?
I tried getting back,
I tried getting back to the refuge.
I got stuck.
I couldn't get back.
I was trying to get back. I am sorry.
I thought you were... I figured you were dead.
I am looking for two women,
they got shiny dresses.
I need to find them. They are in trouble.
Why are you dressed like this? What is this?
I got drunk, I woke up, I was just... What is that?
dressed as a priest.
Who is this?
This is George. This is George.
Have you seen them?
Seen who?
The women.
There're women piled up all over the street.
You haven't seen them?
No, I haven't seen any women. No.
You think it's safe to be looking at the women right now?
Can you help me with tools?
Tools for what?
I got to fix a truck.
Fix a truck for what?
I got to help George,
I got to help some girls,
I got to help some women, they're prostitutes,
and I got to help them.
What? Are you kidding me?
You're talking about prostitutes and trucks,
and tools.
I am talking about not dying in China.
I am leaving right now.
You're leaving Nanking right now?
Do you want to go?
There's a boat. It's waiting for us.
I am leaving right now.
If you want to go, then let's go.
It's your last chance.
I got to find them.
I can't leave.
Are you kidding me right now?
I will see you, Terry.
I will see ya.
Is it? George, yes?
Is it?
Yes?
Stay there, stay there.
They were on their way back.
It was a stray bullet or... maybe...
I don't know.
I don't think they suffered.
I don't think so.
Is that true?
Yes.
Come in.
George.
Come in. George.
It's me.
I only have two minutes.
The guards finally let me in.
These tools
you need.
Thank you.
Now, listen to me.
- This permit was for my daughter. - Right.
But I can't carry out my plan.
You are my only hope now.
The Japanese don't trust me any more.
You are a Westerner.
You can help her.
My daughter wouldn't leave without her classmates.
Please think of a way to get her out of Nanking.
The permit is only good for a short time.
When you manage to leave the church,
remember, head west.
There's a way out of the city there.
I have to go.
Thank you, Mr. Meng.
Mr. Meng, thank you.
Mr. Meng,
with your connections...
is there anything else you can do for us...? No, no, sorry.
John,
I am handing my daughter over to you.
I have promised her mother,
I will take good care of her.
Ok.
Please.
Mr. Meng,
thank you.
Thank you for this.
You are a good man.
In the eyes of my daughter,
I am a bad man,
a traitor.
No.
Thank you.
Good.
You sing very well.
Officer,
this student has lost her uniform.
Because we wanted to look our best today,
we asked her not to participate in the performance.
Please forgive the intrusion.
Father,
I would like to announce some good news.
Tomorrow our division is celebrating
the successful occupation of Nanking.
Esteemed Father,
on behalf of all the officers,
I would like to invite your church choir
to perform and celebrate with us.
This is the official invitation.
This is a very kind invitation,
Mr. Hasegawa.
However, unfortunately,
the children will not be able to attend.
Why not?
Sir, they're very young.
I am not sure that it is appropriate
for them to attend an adults' party.
As their guardian and protector,
that's my responsibility.
But we thank you very much.
I am sorry.
This is an order from above.
I cannot disobey.
Sir.
Please think about the girls.
I can see that you are a man with culture.
Last time you played us a beautiful song,
for people far from home.
You missed the rivers and hills.
Please consider that theirs have been destroyed,
they have no home, nothing.
They are living in hell.
With this invitation,
you are asking them to celebrate that.
I know that you understand.
With respect, sir,
I cannot allow that. I think that is...
I think that is brutal, sir.
Please remember,
tomorrow at four in the afternoon,
a car will come to pick up the students.
I am carrying out military orders.
Mr. Hasegawa,
you tell me what will happen at these celebrations.
Mr. Hasegawa.
You said you posted guards for our security.
Have you been keeping these girls
locked up until these celebrations?
The children cannot go.
Mr. Hasegawa.
The children cannot go.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
night, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen.
All,
must go.
Father John,
what do the Japanese want us to do?
Do they want us to sing?
Yeah.
That's not true what she said.
These men are different from the others.
These men are educated.
They are officers.
These men are gentlemen.
I have been to things like these before, and...
it's nice.
It's elegant, it's a...
It's a party.
There's nice things at parties.
There's cakes and there's flowers
and there's chocolates and there's dancing and...
there's... all of these things, which are lovely.
Please don't think about what she said.
I am a terrible dancer,
and maybe one day one of you could
teach me how to dance. That would be nice.
Please don't think about that.
Because that's not true.
I...
lied to you as well.
Your two friends who went for the pipa strings,
they weren't shot.
I am sorry.
I think you already knew.
Yes.
Sometimes,
the truth is the last thing we need to hear.
I heard what you said to the girls.
What are you going to do?
I got to get the truck started.
And after that?
I have an idea.
Maybe I can save one of them,
with your help.
How?
The Japanese thought
Mosquito was one of the girls.
She tricked them.
Why can't I?
No.
If you're saying what I think you're saying,
- no. - No.
That's not happening.
Remember? Like them,
I was at a convent for six years.
But unlike them,
I was raped by my stepfather
when I was thirteen years old.
By their age,
I was already forced to take my first clients.
I don't want them to go through that.
But I can't let you do that, Mo.
I can't let you do that.
Girls.
Shu.
Wait, just...
Go away.
Come down.
Ok, Ok.
Stay back, Ok.
Keep away. Step back.
Ok.
We're stepping back.
We're telling them the idea I told you about.
It's a good idea. That's it, girls.
Shu, come here,
it's a good idea.
We can trick the Japanese.
Alright? We will make it fun.
Come down, we think about it.
We just come down, and think about it.
We can make it work.
If they went,
how would the Japanese treat them?
Will they tear their clothes?
Will they beat them?
What if the Japanese rape them?
Are you kidding?
No.
Have you seen these women?
Those Japanese don't stand a chance.
These women... these women are formidable.
Brave, exquisite,
skillful.
They have got character,
like nobody I have ever met.
The Japanese?
They're amateurs, amateurs.
These women,
they are professionals.
Father John,
what exactly do they do?
You know... they...
They love and they hate, just like all of us.
Maybe they know more about it than any of us.
These women if they came
face to face with the devil himself,
he'd be putty in their hands.
These idiots? These soldiers?
You think they're scary?
They're not scary.
If you think somebody's scary,
you picture them with their pants around their
ankles, sitting on the crapper, alright?
Picture that.
Not so scary then.
These women, and you girls,
you got to strength and a beauty that will never die.
So don't you worry about them.
Don't worry about them.
But...
but they don't look anything like us,
how can they go?
That's where my powers come in.
I don't do much very well.
But that, that I do well.
And I will make them look like your twins.
You will see.
Father John,
I was wrong,
I am sorry.
Shu, you don't have to be sorry.
You don't have to be sorry.
No, I was wrong.
What is it?
From the first day she came here,
I felt uncomfortable.
I thought
she was not good.
I even thought
both of you were not good.
That's ok.
I want to say to her,
sorry.
And say to you,
I am sorry.
You don't have to say you're sorry.
You got nothing to be sorry about.
What're we doing, George?
What're we doing?
Listen, your God teaches,
everybody's born equal, right?
So, the women, the girls, which?
What would you do?
We must.
What else we can do?
promise me,
Mo, would...
You look so sweet.
Would you mind... lying down?
I am just not used to...
People who can sit?
Right, people who can sit.
Would you mind?
I understand, I don't mind.
So madam, what will it be?
Fourteen years old?
How about thirteen?
Until thirteen I was a good girl.
Very good.
Thirteen it is.
So I will straighten your hair,
cut it in a bob.
I have an idea,
I think it will be beautiful.
This is what we need.
It's perfect.
The way you are now,
is what I like the best.
I see you.
I see everything that you have been through.
And I want all of that, Mo.
I want all of it.
I love it.
I love it all.
Are you going to fall in love with me?
I already have.
I can do this.
Sorry, these are not my clothes.
I want to promise you something.
When this war is over,
I am going to find you,
and I am going to take you home.
No.
After tonight,
my body will no longer be mine.
Take me home now.
They all want you to give them a makeover.
My pleasure.
Here.
You have done this your whole life?
For five years.
You do this very well.
It matters.
It matters to me.
Before my daughter died,
she made me promise
to make her beautiful again.
That was the first time.
It's important.
It's important work.
I am sorry.
She would have been twelve.
Like the girls.
Yeah.
We are one short.
How many did the Japanese say?
How many?
Thirteen.
How many?
Thirteen. We only have twelve here.
This is a terrible joke.
I will go.
George.
Father Ingleman ask me to protect students.
But I am not good.
I am... I am terrible.
I am... I am bad.
If we have one missing,
the Japanese will find out,
then... a big trouble.
You are good at make-up.
You can do for me.
George, I am not that good.
No, you can.
George, stop it.
- It can't work. - You can.
The church to the car
just a short way.
You are good at make-up,
you can do for me.
I will lower my head.
It's possible, it just a short way.
You can.
It's possible.
You know what could happen?
Yes, yes, I know.
I can do what Father Ingleman tell me.
Amazing.
I think I hear
what the Father is saying right now.
Yes?
Yeah.
What he saying?
I think he's saying...
that you have done an incredible...
an incredible job, taking care of the girls.
And that you're good, so good.
And I think he's also asking...
what the hell are you doing with that awful wig on your head?
Yeah. Thank you.
You know that,
you can't really go there.
You got to escape somehow before you get there.
You got to jump from the car or the truck or whatever.
You wait until it slows down,
go around the corner,
that's when you jump.
No, I am no jumping.
Don't teach me.
Why not?
If I jump,
Japanese will find out.
I will go all the way,
give you more time. You and the girls
get out of the church.
Have you got something as well?
Be gentle with her, she's just a girl.
Let's go.
Come on.
Shu.
Come here.
Your father is a good man.
We could never have done this...
without your father.
He's a good man.
Watch your legs.
Is this good for me to go through?
What's on the truck?
Empty wine cases, but...
four of them are full. They are...
very good, very good.
Here.
You see, vintage.
If you would like some.
Open it.
These.
Take.