Signal Fires of Shanghai(狼火は上海に揚る)

A highly controversial, some say treasonous, anti-British, anti-American historical drama made in Japanese-occupied Shanghai (1944). Three young Japanese samurai traveled to Shanghai on a mission during the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, and what they saw there was that China was dominated by Europeans and enraged Chinese people were rebellious. 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.