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Fantastically plotted and directed to pack two hours worth of story into its 62-minute runtime, Robert Florey’s Daughter of Shanghai stars the pioneering Anna May Wong as Lan Ying Lin, a San Francisco woman searching for the human traffickers who murdered her father. From the intense airborne sequence that opens the film, the pacing never ...
Titled So Very Far From Home, the film looked at the lives of young American, British, Australian, and Dutch children who were civilian POWs in China during the years leading up to and through World War II. Their fictionalized stories were the basis of Steven Spielberg’s epic film Empire of the Sun.
Nov 1, 2018 · Shanghai: 1937: Directed by Bill Einreinhofer. With Edward Drea, Zhiliang Su, Hans van der Ven, Liliane Willens. When did World War II begin? Shanghai: 1937 answers that question in a way most audiences will find surprising.
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- Bill Einreinhofer
- 2018-11-01
Nov 8, 2018 · Based on the book “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Danish author Peter Harmsen, this film introduces key figures in the conflict, chronicles how the battle unfolded over the course of three months, and explores the aftermath and years of war that followed.
"Shanghai: 1937" reflects the latest academic scholarship and incorporates little-seen footage located in film libraries around the world, as well as the vivid recollections of men and women who experienced these events as children.
The film also includes vivid recollections of men and women who experienced these events as foreign children living in Shanghai. Produced by Paradox Communications, Inc., 2018.
She describes what life was like for Shanghai’s expat community, and the terror of Japanese bombers flattening portions of the city. Su Zhiliang, Ph.D. is an expert on the Battle of Shanghai, as well as the story of the so-called “comfort women” who were forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese military. He helped establish a Comfort ...
