The Battle of Hong Kong (film)

1942 Hong Kong-Japanese film by Shigeo Tanaka

The Battle of Hong Kong (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日)

Directed by| Shigeo Tanaka
Starring|

* Ichirô Izawa
* Kiyo Kuroda
* Yasushi Nagata
* Jun Usami
* Masao Wakahara

Production
company

Dai Nippon Film Company

Distributed by| Daiei Studios

Release date

* 19 November 1942 (1942-11-19)

[1]
Countries|

* Hong Kong
* Japan

Language| Japanese

The Battle of Hong Kong Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) (Chinese: 香港攻略), also known as The Day England Fell, is the sole film made in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945.[2] 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.[3]

An anti-British propaganda film, The Battle of Hong Kong depicts Britons in Hong Kong as being in a state of "spiritual degeneracy" and inaccurately portrays them as discriminating against Japanese Hong Kongers prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War.[4][5] This film is now lost.[6]

## See also

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* List of Hong Kong films

## References

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1. ^ "Honkon kôryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (1942) - IMDb". IMDb.
2. ^ "Hong Kong Filmography Volume II (1942–1949) Archived 24 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine." Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
3. ^ Evans, Alun. "Brassey's Guide to War Films." 2000. 53.
4. ^ The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. Univ of Wisconsin Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-299-18134-5.
5. ^ Taylor, Philip M. Munitions of the Mind. 3rd Edition. 2003. 239.
6. ^ 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

## External links

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* The Battle of Hong Kong at IMDb

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