Movie: Signal Fires of Shanghai

Top 10 Billed Cast

Tsumasaburō Bandō
阪東妻三郎

Shinsaku Takasugi

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
月形龍之介

Saisuke Godai

Li Li-Hua
Li Li-Hua

Wang Ying

Ryōsuke Kagawa
香川良介

Heirokurô Numata

Ryōnosuke Azuma
Ryōnosuke Azuma

Shakusaburô Ôtsuka

Tatsuya Ishiguro
石黒達也

Kuranosuke Nakamuta

Yoshimatsu Nakamura
Yoshimatsu Nakamura

Boartman

Xiucen Duan
Xiucen Duan

Ah Yang - the waiter

Han Lan-Gen
Han Lan-Gen

Ah Lin - the waiter

Jiang Ming
Jiang Ming

Shen Changling

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1944-12-28

  • Average

    8.8

  • Rating:

    4.4 starts
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