 Among these films, "Song of the White Orchid" (1939, 白蘭の歌), "China Nights" (1940, 支那の夜), and "Vow in the Desert" (1940, 熱砂の誓い) mixed romantic melodrama with propaganda in order to represent a figurative and literal blending of the two cultures onscreen.‘National policy films’ or propaganda pictures used in World War II included combat films such as "Mud and Soldiers" (1939, 土と兵隊) and "Five Scouts" (1938, 五人の斥候兵), spy films such as "The Spy isn't Dead" (1942, 間諜未だ死せず) and "They're After You" (1942, あなたは狙われている) and lavish period pictures such as "The Monkey King" (1940, 孫悟空) and "Genghis Khan" (1943, 成吉斯汗).In the early stages of the war with China, so-called "Humanistic war films" such as "The Five Scouts" attempted to depict the war without nationalism.