Ahen senso

Ahen senso
Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Masahiro Makino
Produced by	Toho
Written by	Hideo Oguni Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
Starring	Ennosuke Ichikawa Setsuko Hara Hideko Takamine Sugisaku Aoyama
Music by	Ryoichi Hattori
Cinematography	Jōji Obara Eiji Tsuburaya (Special Effects)
Release date(s)	January 14, 1943^[1]^[2]
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ahen senso (阿片戦争^?) (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.

Contents

1 Cast
2 References
3 Bibliography
4 External links

Cast

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

References

^ (Japanese) http://www.fjmovie.com/tposter/40-1/ahensenso.htm accessed 20 January 2009
^ http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1943/bs000070.htm accessed 20 January 2009

Bibliography

Desser, David. "From the Opium War to the Pacific War: Japanese Propaganda Films of World War II." Film History 7 (1995). Pp. 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.

External links

Ahen senso at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Masahiro Makino

Singing Lovebirds (1939) Ahen senso (1943) Rikon (1952) Adauchi sōzenji baba (1957)