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Signal Fires of Shanghai

Drama

History

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.

Date: 12/28/1944
Rating: 8.8
Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Li Li-Hua, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Ryōnosuke Azuma, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Yoshimatsu Nakamura, Xiucen Duan, Han Lan-Gen, Jiang Ming, Kiang Sieu, Wang Danfeng, Chun Yen, Kōichi Kuzuki, Hiroshi Mizuno

Tsumasaburō Bandō as Shinsaku Takasugi in Signal Fires of Shanghai Tsumasaburō Bandō

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Saisuke Godai in Signal Fires of Shanghai Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Li Li-Hua as Wang Ying in Signal Fires of Shanghai Li Li-Hua

Ryōsuke Kagawa as Heirokurô Numata in Signal Fires of Shanghai Ryōsuke Kagawa

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Tatsuya Ishiguro as Kuranosuke Nakamuta in Signal Fires of Shanghai Tatsuya Ishiguro

Yoshimatsu Nakamura

Xiucen Duan

Han Lan-Gen as Ah Lin - the waiter in Signal Fires of Shanghai Han Lan-Gen

Jiang Ming as Shen Changling in Signal Fires of Shanghai Jiang Ming

Kiang Sieu as Townsend Ward in Signal Fires of Shanghai Kiang Sieu

Wang Danfeng as Shen Taohua in Signal Fires of Shanghai Wang Danfeng

Chun Yen

Kōichi Kuzuki

Hiroshi Mizuno

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