Hong Kong and Japanese cinemas before and during wartime

Connection between the Hong Kong and Japanese cinemas was weak by the end of World War II. Before the outbreak of the war, linkage was limited to the antiJapanese movies that had been produced in Hong Kong, and thus the early Japanese elements were fairly negative and abstract. These abstract parts involved the enemies who appeared in the films as ‘ghosts’, ‘short soldiers’ or ‘wolves’, but in fact represented the Japanese army. Although the Japanese tried to entice local filmmakers to work for their propaganda during the occupation, no real plan of collaboration was ultimately carried out because of the resistance.