 Even so, as the war in China worsened for Japan, action films such as "The Tiger of Malay" (1943, マライの虎) and espionage dramas like "The Man From Chungking" (1943, 重慶から来た男) more overtly criminalized Chinese as enemies of the Empire.In contrast to its representations of China as antiquated and inflexible, Western nations were often portrayed as overindulgent and decadent.Such negative stereotypes had to be adjusted when Japanese film makers were asked to collaborate with Nazi film crews on a number of Axis co-productions that followed the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact.