The Opium War
- Original title
- Yapian zhanzheng (The Opium War)
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 106 min.
- Country
- China
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Bao Guoan
- Lin Liankun
- Su Min
- Sihung Lung
- Simon Williams
- Bob Peck
- Emma Griffiths Malin
- Philip Jackson
- Debra Beaumont
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production China-Japan;
- Genre
- Drama | 19th Century. Colonialism. Historical. Drugs
- Synopsis
- Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of opium by the Chinese England declares war, because the burned opium was the property of the British commercial attache who had bought it from the British merchants.
- Awards
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1997: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection
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