The Battle of Hong Kong (film)
| The Battle of Hong Kong (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) | |
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| Directed by | Shigeo Tanaka |
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| Distributed by | Daiei Studios |
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| Language | Japanese |
The Battle of Hong Kong Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) (Chinese: 香港攻略), also known as The Day England Fell, is the sole film made in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945.[2] The 1942 film was produced by the Japanese Dai Nippon Film Company, was directed by Shigeo Tanaka (田中重雄 Tanaka Shigeo) and featured an all-Japanese cast, but some Hong Kong film personalities were also involved in its making.[3]
An anti-British propaganda film, The Battle of Hong Kong depicts Britons in Hong Kong as being in a state of "spiritual degeneracy" and inaccurately portrays them as discriminating against Japanese Hong Kongers prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War.[4][5] This film is now lost.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Honkon kôryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (1942) - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "Hong Kong Filmography Volume II (1942–1949) Archived 24 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine." Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
- ^ Evans, Alun. "Brassey's Guide to War Films." 2000. 53.
- ^ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Imperial_Screen/6XiA9DOuvjAC
- ^ Taylor, Philip M. Munitions of the Mind. 3rd Edition. 2003. 239.
- ^ Salomon, Harald. "National Policy Films (kokusaku eiga) and Their Audiences New Developments in Research on Wartime Japanese Cinema." Japonica Humboldtiana 8 (2004). p. 161-176. CITED: p. 175