Ahen senso (阿片戦爭) (or 阿片戰争) aka The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino.

"Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

Cast

Actor Role
Ennosuke Ichikawa Lin Zexu
Setsuko Hara Ai Lang
Hideko Takamine Rei Lang
Sugisaku Aoyama Charles Elliot
Denmei Suzuki George Elliot

References

  1. ^ "Ahen senso" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2009. accessed 20 January 2009
  2. ^ "阿片戦争". www.jmdb.ne.jp. Retrieved 20 January 2009.

Bibliography

  • Desser, David (1995). "From the Opium War to the Pacific War: Japanese Propaganda Films of World War II". Film History (7): 32–48.
  • Washitani, Hana. "The Opium War and the cinema wars: a Hollywood in the greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4.1 (2003). pp. 63–76.

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