The Battle of Hong Kong (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日)
Directed byShigeo Tanaka
Starring
Production
company
Distributed byDaiei Studios
Release date
19 November 1942[1]
Countries
LanguageJapanese

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]

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.[4] This film is now lost.[5]

See also

References

  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. ↑ Taylor, Philip M. Munitions of the Mind. 3rd Edition. 2003. 239.
  5. ↑ 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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