Confucius advocates, don't face the immorality of others with a kind of malice, a kind of resentment, a kind of revenge mentality, otherwise this society will be a vicious circle, endless, then we will lose not only our own Harmony, the harmony of today, and the harmony of future generations. " Meets Nara Again" directed by director Peng Fei exemplifies this spirit of boundless love and repaying grievances with virtue.
This film has a strong production team. It is jointly completed by Japanese film industry female director Kawase Naomi and Chinese director Jia Zhangke . It is also a Sino-Japanese co-production. femininity. Chen Huiming, a grandmother in her late 80s, went to Nara, Japan alone, to find her adopted daughter, Chen Lihua. In the process, she got the help of Ozawa, the second generation of the orphan, and Kazuo, a retired Japanese policeman, and met many people who had known and helped Lihua. The relationship between the three of them also became closer during this period. The mystery of whether the adopted daughter was found in the end is not completely solved. The movie leaves everyone with an open ending, but it is certain that grandma has gained a warm human friendship.
The heroine Wu Yanshu has superb acting skills, showing elegance and affinity in her gestures, especially with warmth. Her rivalry with Kunimura Hayabusa was very enjoyable, and the other actors in the film also acted very well. "Seeing Nara Again" is a classic work with laughter and tears. He focused our attention on how the Chinese people treated the common people in Japan with a broad mind after the end of the Japanese aggression against China in 1945.
During the Japanese militarism's invasion of China, the Chinese nation suffered unprecedented disasters, tens of millions of lives were devastated, and hundreds of billions of property suffered losses. But the Chinese nation is a great nation, and this "greatness" is not only reflected in the indomitable and indomitable spirit of struggle in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. And it is also reflected in the fact that after the war, we can tolerate those former enemies with the same mind as the sea.
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese government, under the premise of its own extreme difficulties, still used enormous human, material and financial resources to arrange the repatriation of Japanese overseas Chinese. Because the overseas Chinese are not the invading army, but the innocent Japanese people. The repatriation of nationals and prisoners of defeated countries is a very difficult task. From the concentration of personnel to the transfer, from the dispatch of the port to the arrangement of ships, there should be no mistakes in any link. The ruling party at that time was the Northeast Camp of the Kuomintang, and the democratic government of the Communist Party of China also gave great help to the Japanese expatriates and prisoners at that time.
In November 1945, the Liaoning Provincial Government of the Communist Party of China was just established, and they took in a large number of abandoned Japanese expatriates. At that time, the Anti-Japanese War had just ended, and the Chinese hated the Japanese from the bottom of their hearts. At that time, the leaders of Liaoning provincial government went to the Japanese refugee center to offer condolences and relief. Everywhere they went, they said earnestly: "In the past, we fought against Japan, and we fought against Japanese warlords. Instead of overthrowing the innocent Japanese people, the Japanese people and those child soldiers who were confusedly dragged into the battlefield by Japanese militarism, and We are also subject to them, subject to the cruelty and oppression of the Japanese warlords. For you, the Chinese people and the people's government not only show no hatred, but also show infinite sympathy. It should be remembered that all your disasters are the wars of aggression launched by the Japanese warlords. Brought to you. The Chinese people and the Japanese people will join hands to completely eliminate the Japanese fascists." The
government's special foreign affairs office learned that the Japanese civilians were struggling, and allocated 500,000 shi of relief food at that time. Among the staff at the Huludao Port Unified Inspection Office that year, there was a staff member named Wang Li, who also participated in the relief work. Wang Li's father, Wang Yingnan, was a patriot from the Northeast. He was a general of Zhang Xueliang. He was very firm in his patriotic and anti-Japanese ideology. He had participated in anti-Japanese national salvation activities. In 1944, when the father and son participated in the anti-Japanese national salvation activities, they were arrested by the Japanese gendarmerie in Peiping and detained in prison. Wang Yingnan was severely tortured by the Japanese army, and she was unyielding and eventually killed. And Wang Li escaped because of Japan surrendered in 1945. Wang Li and the Japanese aggressors have a vengeance for killing his father, and they are inseparable. In July 1946, Wang Li was ordered to be transferred to Xingning in the northeast, in charge of repatriating Japanese prisoners.
recalls thatSpeaking of the experience, Wang Li said: "At that time, the Northeast was trampled on, ravaged and devastated by the Japanese invaders. The national economy was very difficult, and I had a very bad life. But for the repatriation of Japanese captives, the Chinese people disregarded their past suspicions and extended their support to them. A helping hand. A lot of winter fuel, food, and medicine are provided to them." Thinking of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army against his compatriots, and thinking of his father being murdered by the Japanese army, Wang Li was filled with emotion and contradictions. Now to help the Japanese, although not the invaders, but also the Japanese. However, Wang Li was very clear in his work, and the hatred of the country and the family was buried in his heart, and he treated the Japanese prisoners of war rationally according to the duties, discipline and rationality at the time. Many Japanese were deeply moved and wept bitterly before leaving. Years later, Wang Li recalled this experience and said that as a Chinese, he was proud to be able to participate in such repatriation work and to be able to help these Japanese people who, like him, were also ruined.
The film "Seeing Nara Again" reflects the Chinese folk's help to Japan's old and weak women and children. On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Red Army quickly dispatched troops to the northeast, and hundreds of thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army quickly disintegrated. However, when these Kwantung Army retreated, their conscience was utterly disillusioned, and some fascists carried out mass slaughter on their compatriots, and only some children and women who survived the disaster escaped. The Japanese soldiers captured by the Soviet Red Army were brought back to Siberia for labor. Under the harsh environment, the mortality rate of Japanese prisoners was very high.
Therefore, the military, government, business, and ordinary people in Japan are all afraid of falling into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. They want to return to China, so there is a great escape. The strong people fled, the old and weak women and children were unable to run away, they were starving and cold, and some people died of illness on the way. The family was destroyed, the children were homeless and orphaned. At that time, the pier and the streets were full of children's cries.
Some parents know that they can't escape, so they entrust their children to local Chinese people to raise them in order to save their children. Some parents, in order to escape for their own lives and unable to carry the baby, put the baby in a basket and threw it on the side of the road, hoping to be adopted by the Chinese.
has a Japanese nun named Hu Yanzeng, who was separated from his parents on the way to escape, and was adopted by an honest Chinese farmer Hu Wanlin . Hu Wanlin himself also had a deep hatred with the Japanese. In 1938, the Japanese army forcibly took over the houses of the Chinese, and those who did not hand over the houses were surrounded by the Japanese and picked to death with bayonets. Hu Wanlin and his son escaped and hid in a cellar. Japanese soldiers were on guard in the cellar. Once, standing on a weak beam, they stepped on a piece of wood and hit Hu Wanling's son on the head. Killed on the spot. The Japanese destroyed Hu Wanlin's house, occupied the village where he lived, and killed his relatives, but when he saw the poor, abandoned child like his own, Hu Wanlin didn't say a word, and immediately took the child away. He took over and later sent him back to Japan, so Hu Yanzeng would never forget his adoptive father in China all his life.
A day in November 1946. More than 100 uninvited guests came to Shitou Village, Ning'an County, Heilongjiang Province. These people were all Japanese middle school students who had just been captured and released by the Soviet army. They were all around thirteen or fourteen years old. These students were originally captured by the Japanese fascists to fight, but are now captured and released by the Soviets. The 13-year-old child was incapable of survival, in ragged clothes, hungry and cold, and was dying when he arrived at Stone Village. When the villagers saw it, they immediately took them all to their homes, brought out the best food for the children to eat, and let them sleep on the hot kang.
Retired professor and Lai Shoufeng was one of the more than 100 Japanese middle school students that year. He said that none of the more than 100 people could have survived without the care of the people in Stone Village. The kindness of the people of Stone Village will never be forgotten by these people for the rest of their lives. There was a fifteen-year-old boy in the team at that time, and his whole body was completely frozen. A grandmother in his sixties or seventies carried him onto the kang, and brought a basin of warm water to wash his legs for him. The child is warmed up all over. The child kept saying that without the grandmother, he would never have seen his parents. He said he had given birth twice in his life. One time it was the life given by the parents, and the other time it was the life given by the Chinese grandmother of the Stone Village.
The Japanese writer Kazuo Motoda was mobilized to fight on the Sino-Soviet border when he was in the third grade of middle school. After he was captured by the Soviet army, he was screened forto release. When Kazuo Motoda heard that he could go home from Changchun, he was anxious to be reunited with his parents, so he walked along the railway line, wanting to go to the repatriation point and return to Nagoya. As a result, when he arrived at Shitou Village, tired and hungry, he fell to the ground, and many villagers gathered around to cook for Hefu. Yuantian Kazuo said that he has never eaten such a delicious meal in his life. Although the language is different and he doesn't know everyone's names, he has left a lifelong regret, but the place of Stone Village will always have an important place in his heart. It's where he was born out of nowhere.
Mrs. Sato's husband died on the battlefield. After her husband died, she took her five-year-old son to work at a landlord's house surnamed Yang. When she learned that the Japanese had a policy of repatriation, she asked her owner if she could go home? Mr. Yang agreed to help the mother and son prepare the necessities for the road, made new clothes, and asked his own son to personally send the mother and son to the local repatriation station. Mrs. Sato was very moved by the great kindness and virtue of the master.
Five Japanese teenagers were arrested and pulled over by strong men, but the war ended as soon as they arrived in China. They wanted to go home, but were abandoned by the Kwantung Army again, so they marched on foot from , Dongning, , and finally reached Changchun. A farmer named Ma Zhihai in Wanshengdian Village in Shuangcheng Village, Huaide County took pity on these Japanese teenagers and took them home to take care of them. The five teenagers wanted to stay and repay Ma Zhihai, but he refused. Ma Zhihai made a new cotton-padded coat for each of the five teenagers, and another person gave him 1,500 yuan for wrapping, and then sent him to Changchun to say goodbye in tears.
These touching stories all happened in Northeast China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Inner Mongolia. This is the most brutal place ravaged by the Japanese invaders. The people here are still covered in bruises and wounds, but they open their arms selflessly and accept millions of Japanese expatriates. And let them set foot on the road back home from here. The kindness and tolerance of the Chinese people have touched the Japanese, and even the history compiled by the Japanese themselves clearly records this history.
In 2009, the Japanese orphans led by Noda Take and Ikeda Chengjiang came to China to thank the Chinese people for their kindness of upbringing. The then Premier Wen Jiabao met with them in Ziguangge, Zhongnanhai, Beijing. Tears, singing and laughter were intertwined in the venue. Zhongnanhai witnessed the touching scene of Sino-Japanese friendship. Premier Wen said: "You are home." Before Premier Wen's words could be finished, gasping sounds had already sounded in the Ziguang Pavilion, some people wiped their tears, and some stood up and bowed to Premier Wen. pay tribute. Noda Takeshi, the head of the visiting delegation, said that in his dreams, he thought that this day would come.
Ikeda Chengjiang was originally an employee in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. He has lived in China for a long time and is a war orphan who was abandoned in China. He said in fluent Chinese: "We were thrown into China during the war of aggression against China. War orphans, the Chinese people adopted us with a big heart and sent us back to our hometown when we needed it. We will never forget this friendship, Japan is our motherland, and China is our hometown,” The nearly 65-year-old old man at the time said with emotion, "We must keep China and Japan friendly from generation to generation." At the end of the meeting, the old people and Premier Wen sang a song they wrote: "I have two homes. To tell the truth, I have two homes, one in Dongying, one in China. China's old mother, raised me, don't forget China's old mother."
Note : The pictures are historical materials and the movie poster of "Nara Again"
