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Signal Fires of Shanghai (1944)

ALL 12/28/1944 (ja) Drama, History 67 Min
  • Release
    12/28/1944
  • Production
    Daiei Film
  • Rotten tomato
    88%
  • Original title
    狼火は上海に揚る
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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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  1. Tsumasaburō Bandō

    Shinsaku Takasugi

  2. Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

    Saisuke Godai

  3. Li Li-Hua

    Wang Ying

  4. Ryōsuke Kagawa

    Heirokurô Numata

  5. Ryōnosuke Azuma

    Shakusaburô Ôtsuka

  6. Tatsuya Ishiguro

    Kuranosuke Nakamuta

  7. Yoshimatsu Nakamura

    Boartman

  8. Xiucen Duan

    Ah Yang - the waiter

  9. Han Lan-Gen

    Ah Lin - the waiter

  10. Jiang Ming

    Shen Changling

  11. Kiang Sieu

    Townsend Ward

  12. Wang Danfeng

    Shen Taohua

  13. Chun Yen

    Li Xiucheng

  14. Kōichi Kuzuki

    Hikojirô Aizawa

  15. Hiroshi Mizuno

    Yashirô Iwase

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Casts : 15 , Crews : 6

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Signal Fires of Shanghai (1944) 67 Min

ALL 12/28/1944 (ja)
Drama, History
  • Release 12/28/1944
  • Production
    Daiei Film
  • Original title 狼火は上海に揚る
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Griffin Yueh Feng, Hiroshi Inagaki

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  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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