Oriental Casablanca

This film (drama)Also known as东方卡萨布兰卡，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2009Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating7.0(For reference only)。

During World War II, the Japanese army dared not touch Macau. A secret agreement between Japan and Portugal turned Macau into a rare "enclave" on the Pacific battlefield, while also becoming a hub for intelligence gathering and a battleground for spies. The Macau depicted in this drama is the "Oriental Casablanca" filled with the intrigue of espionage, featuring the secret transportation route established by the Communist Party of China as the main storyline, layered with the intertwined web of espionage involving the Kuomintang, Japan, Portugal, and the United States, leading into a battlefield without gunpowder, revealing a long-hidden "archive." After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, General Fang Tianting, a renowned Chinese leader of the Guangzhou Uprising, returned from overseas via Hong Kong, intending to return to the mainland to participate in the war against Japan. Jiang Hao, the son of the president of the Macau Chamber of Commerce, who had studied abroad with a fervent desire to serve his country, accompanied him. In the eyes of the Japanese, there was only one military figure in China: Fang Tianting. They feared that General Fang would safely return to the mainland to command Chinese troops against them, so they dispatched assassins from Japan’s “Special High Police” to attempt to kill him in Hong Kong. In the midst of the crisis, Jiang Hao escorted General Fang to Macau, where Japanese troops could not enter, and from there they would head to the anti-Japanese front. Consequently, the Japanese sent female spy Shen Wei to Macau, attempting to assassinate General Fang there, while the Kuomintang agents received orders stating, "If we cannot persuade General Fang to go to Chongqing, then we must kill him in Macau; he must not fall into the hands of the Communists!" Thus, a battle of wits and courage unfolded in the "enclave" of Macau. After several twists and turns and near-death escapes, Jiang Hao and our secret intelligence personnel from Macau finally escorted General Fang safely back to the mainland. At this time, both the Communist intelligence agency and the Kuomintang intelligence agency nearly simultaneously obtained crucial intelligence: the Japanese government signed a secret agreement with the neutral Portuguese government that would determine Macau's fate, codenamed "Chrysanthemum Archive." To leverage Macau, a region of special significance, for the struggle against the enemy, both the Communist “Special Bureau” and the Kuomintang intelligence agency sought copies of the "Chrysanthemum Archive." Hence, the Communists joined forces with Jiang Hao, infiltrating Macau's upper society with Jiang Hao’s girlfriend, Lin Na, who was a spy for the Communists hidden within the Kuomintang's espionage organization. The Kuomintang also dispatched their top agent, Shi Lei, to Macau, while their opponent remained the Japanese spy Shen Wei. After life-and-death encounters, Jiang Hao and others successfully infiltrated the Governor's Office before Shi Lei, capturing images of the "Chrysanthemum Archive" film and discovering a shocking secret — due to the presence of 100,000 Japanese residents in Brazil (then a Portuguese territory), the Japanese government feared for their safety from persecution by the Portuguese government, leading to a secret agreement: even if Japan occupied all of Asia during the outbreak of war, they would never send a single soldier to occupy (Portuguese) Macau; otherwise, the Portuguese government would intern all 100,000 Japanese residents in Brazil in concentration camps. This meant that Macau would become a sanctuary during the war, one that would never be occupied by Japanese imperialism. Upon uncovering the secret of the "Chrysanthemum Archive," the Communist “Special Bureau” utilized Macau to conduct a series of patriotic anti-Japanese activities: with Hong Kong having fallen, the Japanese army began a massive manhunt for hundreds of cultural figures and social notables who had fled Shanghai to Hong Kong. Facing such a dire threat, Jiang Hao risked his personal safety and journeyed to Hong Kong with the mission of rescuing "800 prominent figures" there. At this point, Japanese spies who had left Macau sought revenge for their previous constraints by the Jiang family and started a killing spree in Hong Kong, intending to assassinate Jiang Hao. With strong assistance from the Communist Party organization, Jiang Hao navigated through the waters to bring some cultural figures to Macau safely, saving many from the jaws of the Japanese army. Subsequently, leveraging his unique identity as the son of the Macau Chamber of Commerce president and a close friend of the Governor, Jiang Hao continued to negotiate with Japanese agents while uniting figures like "Macau King" Yuan Shen and patriotic individuals in the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce such as Su Ziyu, helping Macau through numerous crises, including the "Port Closure Incident" and the "Macau Currency Crisis," laying the groundwork for Macau's return to the motherland 60 years later. It can be confidently stated that without the efforts of Jiang Hao, Lin Na, Su Ziyu, Yuan Shen, and others, the modern history of Macau would look very different.