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| name = The Battle of Hong Kong (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日)<br />
| image = 香港攻略戰.jpg<br />
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| director = [[Shigeo Tanaka]]<br />
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| starring = {{ubl|[[Ichirô Izawa]]|[[Kiyo Kuroda]]|[[Yasushi Nagata]]|[[Jun Usami]]|[[Masao Wakahara]]}}<br />
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| studio = [[Dai Nippon Film Company]]<br />
| distributor = [[Daiei Studios]]<br />
| released = 19 November 1942<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034697/releaseinfo|title=Honkon kôryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (1942) - IMDb|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref><br />
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| country = {{ubl|[[Hong Kong]]|[[Japan]]}}<br />
| language = Japanese<br />
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'''''The Battle of Hong Kong''''' {{nihongo||香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日|Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi}} ({{zh|c=香港攻略}}), also known as '''''The Day England Fell''''', is the sole film made in [[Hong Kong]] during the [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|Japanese occupation]] from 1941 to 1945.<ref>"[http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en/4-1-30a.php Hong Kong Filmography Volume II (1942–1949)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024212858/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en/4-1-30a.php |date=24 October 2010 }}." ''Hong Kong Film Archive''. Retrieved 9 November 2009.</ref> The 1942 film was produced by the Japanese Dai Nippon Film Company, was directed by Shigeo Tanaka (田中重雄 ''Tanaka Shigeo'') and featured an all-Japanese cast, but some Hong Kong film personalities were also involved in its making.<ref>Evans, Alun. "Brassey's Guide to War Films." 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kUjxlTYMNMgC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22The+Day+England+Fell%22&source=web&ots=30DQB9RkWF&sig=_kHI4QIh6ed3th6RmxeESlTGT9g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result 53].</ref><br />
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The Japanese used the film to spread anti-British propaganda; the film portrays the British as having brutal and racist attitudes while in Hong Kong.<ref>Taylor, Philip M. ''Munitions of the Mind''. 3rd Edition. 2003. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_KS3fBvjkicC&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=%22The+Day+England+Fell%22&source=web&ots=6oVHUMzsPM&sig=xJ8kZd9Zx1Fgbd7wdE1rONkmBEw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result 239].</ref> This film is now [[Lost film|lost]].<ref>Salomon, Harald. "[http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/japonica-hu/8/salomon-harald-161/PDF/salomon.pdf National Policy Films (''kokusaku eiga'') and Their Audiences New Developments in Research on Wartime Japanese Cinema]." ''[[Japonica Humboldtiana]]'' 8 (2004). p. 161-176. CITED: p. 175</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Hong Kong films]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{imdb title|0034697}}<br />
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