The Nation's Pride

The Nation's Pride (Cantonese: 民族驕傲 Jyutping: man4 zuk6 giu1 ngou6) is a 1943 Hong Kong independent short war alternate history film written and directed by Charles Cheung, from a story by Marvin Blanc. The short film was shown in theaters before the feature-length film noir The Strongest Wolf.

Plot
Set during the, a young Japanese soldier holds off a large battalion of Chinese soldiers from a church tower in a fortified city in China. He manages to kill 250 enemy soldiers, before they give up on the city.

As the film reaches its climax and turns out to be a film-within-a-film, So Heung-To's spliced-in footage tells the audience at the Japanese movie theater that they are about to be killed by a Hongkonger. Having locked the auditorium doors, the projectionist ignites a pile of flammable film behind the screen as So's image laughs and the theater goes up in flames. Two people break into the opera box containing, and , submachine-gunning them both to death then firing into the crowd until the bombs go off, killing everyone in the theater.

Cast

 * as the Soldier
 * as the Japanese General
 * Zhang Zhizhi as the Chinese Colonel
 * as the Chinese Soldier
 * as So Heung-To (蘇香桃)
 * Malcolm Lee as the Projectionist
 * Saburō Furihata as
 * Kōji Kasahara as
 * as
 * Lau Hak-Suen and Cheung Wood-Yau as the Submachine Gun-Carrying Rebels

Theatrical and home media release
Cricket Pictures arranged in early-July 1943 special screenings of the short at the in Kowloon.

On July 26, 2011, along with The Strongest Wolf, a remastered version of the film was rereleased theatrically, and on home video the following year.