Ahen senso

Ahen senso (阿片戦爭) (or 阿片戰争) aka The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino.

Ahen Sensō
Japanese film poster
Japanese	阿片戦爭
Hepburn	Ahen Sensō
Directed by	Masahiro Makino
Produced by	Toho
Written by	Hideo Oguni Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
Starring	Ennosuke Ichikawa Setsuko Hara Hideko Takamine Sugisaku Aoyama
Music by	Ryoichi Hattori
Cinematography	Jōji Obara Eiji Tsuburaya (Special Effects)
Release date	January 14, 1943 (1943-01-14)[1][2]
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

"Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

Cast

• Ennosuke Ichikawa as Lin Zexu
• Setsuko Hara as Ai Lang
• Hideko Takamine as Rei Lang
• Sugisaku Aoyama as Charles Elliot
• Denmei Suzuki as George Elliot

References

1. "Ahen senso" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2009. accessed 20 January 2009
2. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1943/bs000070.htm accessed 20 January 2009

Bibliography

• Desser, David (1995). "From the Opium War to the Pacific War: Japanese Propaganda Films of World War II". Film History (7): 32–48.
• 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.

External links

• Ahen senso on IMDb