Dragon Seed is a 1944 American war drama film, about Japan's WWII-era actions in China.The movie directed by Jack Conway and Harold S. Bucquet, based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Pearl S. Buck.

The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, and Turhan Bey.

The men elect to adopt a peaceful attitude towards their conquerors, and the women are understood to stoically acquiesce as well, but Jade, a headstrong young woman, intends to stand up to the Japanese, whether her husband Lao Er approves or not.

[citation needed] Film critic and author James Agee reviewed it in 1944: " Dragon Seed is an almost unimaginably bad movie."

[3] Leslie Halliwell gave it one of four stars: "Ill-advised attempt to follow the success of The Good Earth: badly cast actors mouth propaganda lines in a mechanical script which provokes more boredom and unintentional laughter than sympathy.".