Dragon Seed (1944)
With Katharine Hepburn, Aline MacMahon, Walter Huston, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Puglia, Henry Travers
Directed by Jack Conway, Andrew Marton, Harold S. Bucquet
Dragon Seed is a 1944 American war drama film, about Japan's WWII-era actions in China. The movie directed by Jack Conway and Harold S. Bucquet, based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Pearl S. Buck. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, and Turhan Bey. It portrays a peaceful village in China that has been invaded by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The men in the village choose to adopt a peaceful attitude toward their conquerors, but the headstrong Jade (Hepburn) stands up to the Japanese.
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