, also known as The Day England Fell, is the sole film made in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945."Hong Kong Filmography Volume II (1942–1949) ." Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 9 November 2009. The 1942 film was produced by the Japanese Dai Nippon Film Company, was directed by and featured an all-Japanese cast, but some Hong Kong film personalities were also involved in its making.Evans, Alun. "Brassey's Guide to War Films." 2000. 53.
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.Taylor, Philip M. Munitions of the Mind. 3rd Edition. 2003. 239. This film is now lost.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
Cast Ichirō Izawa Kiyo Kuroda Yasushi Nagata Jun Usami Masao Wakahara
See also List of Hong Kong films
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