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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.
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.
With Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff. The lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.
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3,322 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.
Chinese peasants fight to survive the Japanese occupation during World War II.
In the 1944 movie "Dragon Seed," legendary actress Katharine Hepburn stars as Jade, a Chinese peasant living in a small village with her family. The village is in danger, as the invading Japanese army is slowly advancing through China, seizing more and more territory.
