Signal Fires of Shanghai Trailer

Signal Fires of Shanghai Trailer (1944)

28 December 1944 Drama, History 67 mins

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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Cast

Tsumasaburō Bandō

as Shinsaku Takasugi

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

as Saisuke Godai

Li Li-Hua

as Wang Ying

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Heirokurô Numata

Ryōnosuke Azuma

as Shakusaburô Ôtsuka

Tatsuya Ishiguro

as Kuranosuke Nakamuta

Xiucen Duan

as Ah Yang - the waiter

Han Lan-Gen

as Ah Lin - the waiter

Jiang Ming

as Shen Changling

Kiang Sieu

as Townsend Ward

Wang Danfeng

as Shen Taohua

Chun Yen

as Li Xiucheng

Kōichi Kuzuki

as Hikojirô Aizawa

Hiroshi Mizuno

as Yashirô Iwase

International Titles

Noroshi wa Shanghai ni agaru Trailer

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