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-->'''Kwan-Mei''': You cannot kill me! You cannot kill China!....When I die, a million will take my place, and nothing will stop them!
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-->'''Kwan-Mei''': You cannot kill me! You cannot kill China!....China!... When I die, a million will take my place, and nothing will stop them!them!
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After two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down, Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one, but when the other pilot is captured by the Japanese the guerrillas resolve to rescue him, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
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After two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down, Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one, but when the other pilot is captured by the Japanese the guerrillas resolve to rescue him, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura (Harold Huber) of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
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''Lady from Chungking'' is a 1942 film directed by William Nigh.
Creator/AnnaMayWong appears as Madame Kwan-Mei, a woman of noble birth who has been reduced to working in the rice fields after her parents were killed and their estate confiscated. However, what she's actually doing is leading a Chinese resistance cell, guerrillas against the occupying Japanese.
Two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down. Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one but the other is captured by the Japanese. The guerrillas resolve to rescue the other pilot, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
Creator/MaeClarke plays Lavara, a White Russian emigre who sings in the local hotel.
Creator/AnnaMayWong appears as Madame Kwan-Mei, a woman of noble birth who has been reduced to working in the rice fields after her parents were killed and their estate confiscated. However, what she's actually doing is leading a Chinese resistance cell, guerrillas against the occupying Japanese.
Two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down. Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one but the other is captured by the Japanese. The guerrillas resolve to rescue the other pilot, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
Creator/MaeClarke plays Lavara, a White Russian emigre who sings in the local hotel.
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''Lady from Chungking'' is a 1942 American UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by William Nigh.
Creator/AnnaMayWongappears stars as Madame Kwan-Mei, a woman of noble birth who has been reduced to working in the rice fields after her parents were killed and their estate confiscated. However, what she's actually doing is leading a Chinese resistance cell, guerrillas against the occupying Japanese.
Two After two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down. down, Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one one, but when the other pilot is captured by the Japanese. The Japanese the guerrillas resolve to rescue the other pilot, him, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
Creator/MaeClarke plays Lavara, a White Russianemigre émigré who sings in the local hotel.
Creator/AnnaMayWong
Creator/MaeClarke plays Lavara, a White Russian
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* HoneyPot: Gen. Kaimura, who is a sleaze all, demands a woman when he arrives at Japanese headquarters. Kwan-Mei hears about this, and arranges to get tarted up in a cheongsam and a new hairdo, so she can worm her way into Kaimura's confidences as his lover.
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* HoneyPot: Gen. Kaimura, who is a sleaze all, sleazeball, demands a woman when he arrives at Japanese headquarters. Kwan-Mei hears about this, and arranges to get tarted up in a cheongsam and a new hairdo, so she can worm her way into Kaimura's confidences as his lover.
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* BittersweetEnding: Kwan-Mei is shot by the Japanese (Anna May Wong was a [[invoked]]ChronicallyKilledActor for much of her career), but Kaimura gets his, dying moments later from the bullet Kwan-Mei put in his gut. More importantly, the Chinese resistance will continue, and with the free nations of the world they'll crush the Japanese.
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* ImagineSpot: Kwan-Mei is shot by the Japanese and falls over dead in the middle of her RousingSpeech. However, General Kaimura, himself dying after Kwan-Mei shot him, sees her ghost, which finishes the rousing speech about how Japan will never defeat China and China and its allies will eventually kick the Japanese out.
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* TitleDrop: Kwan-Mei has been living under a pseudonym, and apparently Kaimura is familiar with her real name. She tells him who she is and promptly shoots him. After Kaimura's lieutenant enters the room, Kaimura, who is still on his feet, says "May I present the lady from Chungking, Madame Kwan-Mei."
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* {{Yellowface}}: Harold Huber, a white man, plays a Japanese general, Gen. Kaimura.
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* {{Yellowface}}: Harold Huber, a white man, plays a Japanese general, Gen. Kaimura.Kaimura.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: The ending, where Kwan-Mei, who is getting stood up against a wall by the Japanese, tells them that they can shoot her but they can't destroy China.
-->'''Kwan-Mei''': You cannot kill me! You cannot kill China!....When I die, a million will take my place, and nothing will stop them!
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: The ending, where Kwan-Mei, who is getting stood up against a wall by the Japanese, tells them that they can shoot her but they can't destroy China.
-->'''Kwan-Mei''': You cannot kill me! You cannot kill China!....When I die, a million will take my place, and nothing will stop them!
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Creator/MaeClarke plays Lavara, a White Russian emigre who sings in the local hotel.
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* AlcoholHic: Gen. Kaimura, who has a serious drinking problem, does this when quaffing far too much champagne while sweet-talking Kwan-Mei.
* TheChanteuse: Lavara's job, singing in the seedy local hotel run by the local Nazi, Herr Gruber.
* DramaticIrony: Kwan-Mei, who got into Kaimura's headquarters with her looks but still professes loyalty to the Japanese occupiers, tells Kaimura: "Well, here's hoping that every Chinese you meet from now on will be as loyal as I am."
* FeetFirstIntroduction: A little boy plays with a toy boat in a mud puddle, as the older Chinese pick rice. The premise of the story is established when military jackboots come into the frame and stomp the boy's boat. It's a Japanese guard, and the Chinese rice pickers are basically slave labor behind the Japanese lines.
* HoneyPot: Gen. Kaimura, who is a sleaze all, demands a woman when he arrives at Japanese headquarters. Kwan-Mei hears about this, and arranges to get tarted up in a cheongsam and a new hairdo, so she can worm her way into Kaimura's confidences as his lover.
* TheChanteuse: Lavara's job, singing in the seedy local hotel run by the local Nazi, Herr Gruber.
* DramaticIrony: Kwan-Mei, who got into Kaimura's headquarters with her looks but still professes loyalty to the Japanese occupiers, tells Kaimura: "Well, here's hoping that every Chinese you meet from now on will be as loyal as I am."
* FeetFirstIntroduction: A little boy plays with a toy boat in a mud puddle, as the older Chinese pick rice. The premise of the story is established when military jackboots come into the frame and stomp the boy's boat. It's a Japanese guard, and the Chinese rice pickers are basically slave labor behind the Japanese lines.
* HoneyPot: Gen. Kaimura, who is a sleaze all, demands a woman when he arrives at Japanese headquarters. Kwan-Mei hears about this, and arranges to get tarted up in a cheongsam and a new hairdo, so she can worm her way into Kaimura's confidences as his lover.
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* TheReveal: About 2/3 of the way in it's revealed that Herr Gruber, the local Nazi who's been Heil-Hitlering everybody, is actually smuggling arms to the Chinese resistance. He's only doing it for the money, though, and he tries to betray Kwan-Mei to the Japanese near the end.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Mae Clarke, playing a White Russian refugee, speaks with her regular American accent. Lampshaded when Pat asks her why she talks like that, and she says she got it from "[[HornySailors the sailor's manual]]".
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: This film was made by Producers Releasing Corporation, a "Poverty Row" studio that operated with considerably smaller budgets that the big boys like MGM or Warner Brothers. So that's why the demolition of the vital bridge by Kwan-Mei's saboteurs is only an offscreen booming noise, as Kwan-Mei tells Kaimura what's happening.
* OldSchoolDogfight: The Chinese laborers watch an American plane duke it out with the Japanese. The pilots bail out, and Kwan-Mei's people rescue one but the other is captured.
* SlippingAMickey: Kwan-Mei drugs Kaimura's wine and makes her rendezvous with her men after he passes out.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Kwan-Mei's [[TheLancer lancer]], Chen, flings his knife right into the neck of the Japanese guard, killing him.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Lavara gets shot while breaking Pat out of the Japanese jail cell. He carries her to the getaway jeep, and the jeep zooms away, and that is the last we see or hear of Lavara in the movie.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Mae Clarke, playing a White Russian refugee, speaks with her regular American accent. Lampshaded when Pat asks her why she talks like that, and she says she got it from "[[HornySailors the sailor's manual]]".
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: This film was made by Producers Releasing Corporation, a "Poverty Row" studio that operated with considerably smaller budgets that the big boys like MGM or Warner Brothers. So that's why the demolition of the vital bridge by Kwan-Mei's saboteurs is only an offscreen booming noise, as Kwan-Mei tells Kaimura what's happening.
* OldSchoolDogfight: The Chinese laborers watch an American plane duke it out with the Japanese. The pilots bail out, and Kwan-Mei's people rescue one but the other is captured.
* SlippingAMickey: Kwan-Mei drugs Kaimura's wine and makes her rendezvous with her men after he passes out.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Kwan-Mei's [[TheLancer lancer]], Chen, flings his knife right into the neck of the Japanese guard, killing him.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Lavara gets shot while breaking Pat out of the Japanese jail cell. He carries her to the getaway jeep, and the jeep zooms away, and that is the last we see or hear of Lavara in the movie.
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''Lady from Chungking'' is a 1942 film directed by William Nigh.
Creator/AnnaMayWong appears as Madame Kwan-Mei, a woman of noble birth who has been reduced to working in the rice fields after her parents were killed and their estate confiscated. However, what she's actually doing is leading a Chinese resistance cell, guerrillas against the occupying Japanese.
Two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down. Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one but the other is captured by the Japanese. The guerrillas resolve to rescue the other pilot, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
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* LaResistance: Kwan-Mei's band is shown receiving smuggled guns and bayonets at the start of the film, but they have to pick up the pace when Gen. Kaimura arrives in town in advance of his army.
* {{Yellowface}}: Harold Huber, a white man, plays a Japanese general, Gen. Kaimura.
Creator/AnnaMayWong appears as Madame Kwan-Mei, a woman of noble birth who has been reduced to working in the rice fields after her parents were killed and their estate confiscated. However, what she's actually doing is leading a Chinese resistance cell, guerrillas against the occupying Japanese.
Two American pilots, members of the famous Flying Tigers squadron, are shot down. Kwan-Mei's guerrilla band hides one but the other is captured by the Japanese. The guerrillas resolve to rescue the other pilot, a task that becomes more urgent when General Kaimura of the Japanese army shows up in the village, to prepare for a major Japanese ground offensive.
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* LaResistance: Kwan-Mei's band is shown receiving smuggled guns and bayonets at the start of the film, but they have to pick up the pace when Gen. Kaimura arrives in town in advance of his army.
* {{Yellowface}}: Harold Huber, a white man, plays a Japanese general, Gen. Kaimura.
