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Destruction of Opium at Humen

Destruction of Opium at Humen

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 20, 2021

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Action

Original Title

血战虎门

Director

Zhang Zhe

Description

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, opium was packaged by British merchants as "Fu Shou Ointment" and sold to China, and countless people suffered greatly. Cigarette restaurants in Guangzhou are blooming everywhere, smokers flock to them, sinking corpses at the bottom of the river, selling children for cigarettes are common, and countless families are broken and people die. Lin Zexu (Yao Yao), the Minister of the Imperial Household, is ordered to go south to sell cigarettes, but he is subjected to repeated reprisals for his involvement in the black chain of government and business interests behind opium, assassins and human bombs