(or ) aka ''The Opium War '' is a 1943

black-and-white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. ...

Japanese film The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

directed by

Masahiro Makino was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was , but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including , , and ). Career Masa ...

. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the

First Opium War The First Opium War (), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Sino War was a series of military engagements fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of the ...

. The story of the film concerns this war.

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References

Bibliography

* *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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* Japanese black-and-white films 1943 films Films directed by Masahiro Makino 1943 war films Toho films Japanese war films Films scored by Ryōichi Hattori First Opium War 1940s Japanese-language films {{1940s-Japan-film-stub