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Dragon Seed(Movie, 1944)

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| 2h 25min | Genre: Drama
Dragon SeedRating: 3.2/5 (with 77 votes)
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. It portrays a peaceful village in China that has been invaded by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The men in the village choose to adopt a peaceful attitude toward their conquerors, but the headstrong Jade (Hepburn) stands up to the Japanese. Aline MacMahon was nomin... ()
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Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
Duration: 2h 27min
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Duration: 2h 28min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
Duration: 2h 27min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 2h 28min
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Also available at Amazon.com on: DVD

Awards & Nominations for Dragon Seed

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White

About Dragon Seed

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: China
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/20/1944
Film Editor: Harold F. Kress
Director of Photography: Sidney Wagner
Production Designer: Cedric Gibbons
Budget: 3,070,000 USD
Revenue: 4,627,000 USD (= 151%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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