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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
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 (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

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

References

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 at IMDb

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