''The Battle of Hong Kong'' (), also known as ''The Day England Fell'', is the sole film made in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. 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. The Japanese used the film to spread anti-British propaganda; the film portrays the British as having brutal and racist attitudes while in Hong Kong. This film is now

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.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

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* Hong Kong war drama films 1942 films Lost Japanese films Japanese World War II propaganda films 1942 in Hong Kong 1940s lost films 1940s war drama films Japanese war drama films Japanese black-and-white films Battle of Hong Kong 1942 drama films Japanese World War II films 1940s Japanese-language films {{HK-film-stub

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