狼火は上海に揚る
During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Although the Western powers are officially neutral, the British consul in Shanghai sides with the Qing imperial government, and counter to his own government's policy he retains American adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward to raise a mercenary force of foreigners in Shanghai and oppose the Taipings. Ward's force is routed, with heavy casualties, but since many of the casualties are British, the British army soon is drawn in on the side of the Qings. The only support for the Chinese comes from Japanese in Shanghai and anti-imperialist demonstrations in Japan. A family drama plays out against this historical background. After a Chinese home is destroyed by careless British shelling, killing the father and crippling a daughter, the surviving son vows revenge but begins to see that his true friends may be the Japanese.
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Release
1944-12-28
Cast
阪東妻三郎
Shinsaku Takasugi
月形龍之介
Saisuke Godai
Li Li-Hua
Wang Ying
香川良介
Heirokurô Numata
Ryōnosuke Azuma
Shakusaburô Ôtsuka
石黒達也
Kuranosuke Nakamuta
Yoshimatsu Nakamura
Boartman
Xiucen Duan
Ah Yang - the waiter
Han Lan-Gen
Ah Lin - the waiter
Jiang Ming
Shen Changling
Kiang Sieu
Townsend Ward
Wang Danfeng
Shen Taohua
Chun Yen
Li Xiucheng
Kōichi Kuzuki
Hikojirô Aizawa
水野浩
Yashirô Iwase
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