Opium War

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

Janine Hansen asked,

>could anybody tell me how to get a copy of AHEN SENSO (Opium War, 1943,
>dir. Makino Masahiro)? And has anything been written on this particular
>film?

The film is in the collections of the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Film 
Center and the US Library of Congress.  Neither, as far as I know, has 
subtitles.  It is not easy to get films from the Film Center, but for a 
big museum exhibition, that might be possible.  The LC copy might also be 
used, but if I remember, it has reels out of order and needs to be 
checked before screening.

For one piece in Japanese, there is an essay by Hasegawa Akira called 
"Eiga _Ahen senso_ to goraku seishin" in Cineaste 3 (the Japanese: 
Shineasuto) (1985): pp. 148-157.  Issue 3 is a special issue on Makino 
Masahiro.

Hope this helps.

Aaron Gerow
YNU