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Eternity is a film directed by Bu Wancang with Chen Yunshang
Eternity (1943)
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Directed by Bu Wancang
Eternity (Chinese: 万世流芳; pinyin: Wàn Shì Liú Fāng) is a controversial 1943 Chinese film made in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the Second World War. The film was a collaborative effort between the Japanese-controlled Manchukuo Film Association and Chinese filmmakers that remained in Shanghai under the Japanese-controlled Zhonglian Productions ("United China") brand.
Telling the story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War, the film was Japan's attempt to make a crowd-pleasing anti-Western film as propaganda in Japanese-occupied areas of China. Ultimately the film (and the Shanghai filmmakers) was seen as tools of the enemy once the war was over, with many involved in the production (notably directors Bu Wancang, Ma-Xu Weibang, and Zhu Shilin) eventually moving to Hong Kong due to the hostile environment.
Today the film is still seen as Japanese propaganda, or more generally as anti-foreign in general.
Actors
Chen Yunshang
(张静娴)
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
(凤姑)
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