PRESENTER:And it was here, in the mid-1700s, that the destinies of China and the British began to intertwine ... The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed ...

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

The problem began with a flower ... Britain contrived an excuse to attack. The first Opium War lasted four years, and when it ended, the opium trade continued apace. In 1860, the British went ...

This is the first time in his life that he doesn't fear being hit by a bomb when venturing out. But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow ...