Tunnel War

Tunnel War
Traditional Chinese	地道戰
Simplified Chinese	地道战
Hanyu Pinyin	Dì dào zhàn
Directed by	Ren Xudong
Written by	Ren Xudong Pan Yunshan
Starring	Longguang Zhu Bingyu Wang Xiujie Liu Yongshou Zhang Xiaozhong Wang Jiang Liu
Cinematography	Yang Guangyuan
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Box office	300 million+ tickets

Tunnel War (Chinese: 地道战; pinyin: Dì dào zhàn), also known as Tunnel Warfare,^[1] is a 1965 Chinese film produced before the Cultural Revolution about a small town which defends itself from the Japanese by use of a network of tunnels during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Ren Xudong and produced by the August First Film Studio.^[1]

It is considered to be one of the first movies to discuss the use of tunnels in war.^{[citation needed]}