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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.
A film based on Pearl S. Buck's novel, starring Katharine Hepburn as a Chinese woman who leads a resistance against the Japanese invasion. The film features non-Asian actors in yellowface and was released during World War II.
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- Drama, History, War
- Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
- 1944-08
The Promise. Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937.
Based on Pearl S. Buck's novel, Dragon Seed tells the story of Chinese peasants resisting the Japanese invasion during World War II. The film features Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Akim Tamiroff and Turhan Bey in the cast.
Dragon Seed. Rent Dragon Seed on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. As the Second Sino-Japanese War erupts in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of northern China, the rural Tan family in...
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- Jack Conway, Harold S. Bucquet
- Drama
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A film about a Chinese family facing the Japanese invasion in 1937. The plot follows the struggles of the Tan family, especially Jade, a rebellious daughter-in-law who joins the resistance.
4.09. 3,302 ratings257 reviews. One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII.
