Anti-Japanese war films and TV dramas have been on the rise in China, but they are criticised for being unrealistic and ridiculous. Photo: SCMP Pictures
What the quintessential anti-Japanese resistance fighter should have looked like, according to many of China's glamourised TV war dramas.
A Chinese solider destroy a Japanese fighter plane with a hand grenade.
Actress Jiang Xin plays a bow and arrow-wielding, cowboy hat-wearing heroine in anti-Japanese war drama 'Ready to Fly'.