Ahen senso

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

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

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^ "Ahen senso" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2009. accessed 20 January 2009
^ "阿片戦争". www.jmdb.ne.jp. Retrieved 20 January 2009.

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.

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