The Chungking regime adopted terrorist tactics against Chinese cinema producers and popular actors and actresses if they came in touch with the Japanese. The same medicine was administered to newspapers. The Japanese authorities have overcome such difficulties, and have succeeded im inducing Chinese film producers to ce-operate, with the result that anti-Japanese movies have been eliminated. Two Chinese movie production concerns, the "hina Cinema Company and the North China Cinema Company, were established in the summer of 1939.
(Chungking is, however, still producing anti-Japanese films at Chungking and Hongkong, is sending them to Britain and the United States, and is also smuggling them into regions occupied by the Japanese army.
What racked the brains of the Japanese army publicity authorities in connection with their establishment of a radio station in Shanghai was the fact that no Chinese artiste was willing to comply with Japanese requests to give radio drama entertainment. A secret studio was established in the middle of busy Shangand here the Japanese enabled Chinese artistes' to give entertainment.
"More than one Chinese who thus took an interest in radio broadcasts fell victim to Chungking terrorists. Those who were thus sacrificed in the cause of Japanese-Chinese cultural cooperation included Shíh Jih-tai. who was connected with the radio service, and Liu San who contributed to the movie enterprise.
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