Watch the old Japanese movie "Wangxiang"

Watch the old Japanese movie "Wangxiang"

In the 1980s, there was a Japanese movie "Wangxiang" that was released at the Koshi Cinema, which was good, but unfortunately I couldn't watch it for some reason. Recently, a friend re-mentioned it, and he searched on the Internet, and it was still available for viewing. I watched it and thought it was a good film, even if it was released today, whether it was the elderly or the younger generation, it had a certain educational significance.

The film "Wangxiang" was directed by the famous Japanese director Kei Kumai at that time, and actors such as Kurihara Komaki, Tanaka Atsuyo, Yoko Takahashi, and Ken Tanaka participated in the performance. The story describes the 30th year of Meiji (1897) in Japan, and in the 9th year of Taisho (1920), the Japanese government trafficked Japanese women overseas as prostitutes in order to obtain foreign exchange and accumulate funds to develop capitalism. Trafficked women are humiliated, oppressed and live inhuman lives abroad. Later, the Japanese economy gradually recovered, and the Japanese government no longer relied on the sale of "Nanyang Sister" to earn foreign exchange. Some "Nanyang sisters" miss their homeland. They miss their loved ones and return to Japan, but their relatives are unwilling to accept them, and Japanese society discriminates against and excludes them, and they still live a miserable life until they are old and sick and die lonely. Therefore, more "Nanyang sisters" are reluctant to return to China, preferring to die overseas and be buried in Nanyang. Moreover, all the graves of the "Nanyang Sisters" turn their backs on Japan as a way to express their protests and resentment towards their motherland and relatives.

It is not that the "Nanyang Sisters" have turned their backs on the motherland, but that the Yamato nation owes the "Nanyang Sisters" who have made sacrifices for them. On the contrary, the Japanese government has enshrined the "Yasukuni Shrine" after the death of war criminals who launched wars of aggression, brutally slaughtered peaceful people, plundered the resources of neighboring countries, and also led Japan to disaster. The Japanese Government has not yet recognized the fact that Japanese militarism launched a war of aggression.

Is this the national character of the Yamato nation?

The present Japanese Government should give an account to the countries and people who have been victimized, as well as to the people who have suffered from the crimes committed by Japanese militarism in the war of aggression.

Old films such as "Wangxiang" that record the blood and tears of history should be screened frequently, not to stir up hatred, but to ask our children and grandchildren, (including the people of Japan), not to forget history.