Ahen senso explained

Ahen Sensō

Native Name:

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Starring:

Ennosuke Ichikawa
Setsuko Hara
Hideko Takamine
Sugisaku Aoyama

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Runtime:

115 minutes

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

(or Japanese: 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

Desser. David. From the Opium War to the Pacific War: Japanese Propaganda Films of World War II. Film History. 1995. 7. 32–48. David Desser.
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.