Today's introduction is a Film Shot in Japan - "Two Two Six".
The film was shot in 1989 and is 114 minutes long. Directed by Gosha Hero, a well-known director of the National Treasure level of Japan, starring Yukazu Miura, Douban scored 7.0 points.
The film follows a failed mutiny initiated in Japan on February 26, 1936 by a group of "Imperial Taoist" young officers in the Army.
From the narrative method to the camera screen and the arrangement of the interlude, the film is very neat, which is enough to see the skills of the "national treasure" director.
Perhaps for political reasons, the film lacks the psychological motivations and deep contradictions of the characters in the film, so that the audience can only see the iceberg that is exposed to the water.
Especially for the crucial issue of the emperor's attitude towards the mutiny, he played the "Great Law of Adaptation" and reversed black and white.
The biggest problem with the film is that it only shows the 4 days of the coup, and neither explains in detail the activities of the young officers before the coup, nor does it explain the results of the coup, resulting in people who do not know japanese history as if they have watched a film that cuts the head and ends.
The cast of the film is very strong, we should be most familiar with Yukazu Miura, he was a popular small fresh meat in Japan, together with Yamaguchi Momoe became the first generation of screen idols after the reopening of China in the 80s, and later the two also became a real couple.
It is worth mentioning that the soundtrack of the film is led by the famous Japanese composer Akira Chizumi, it can be said that Chizumi Akira has a good understanding of the creative intention of the director Gosha Hero to portray the mutinous soldiers, and the background music is either passionate or mournful, and has achieved seamless docking with the storyline.
I say this to tell you that the production team of the film is extraordinary, shaping the mutineers into "tragic heroes", and the ideological implantation behind it is very intriguing, and it is also worth our vigilance and discernment between right and wrong.
Well, about the film is introduced to this, let's review this history as usual--- the 226 incident.
The reason for the occurrence of the "226 Incident" is inseparable from the dual factors of the international environment and Japan's unique national conditions.
At that time, the international environment was that the world was in the midst of the Great Depression after the largest economic crisis in history, and island countries such as Japan, which had fewer resources and more people, caught up with the Great Kanto Earthquake, resulting in a sharp decline in living standards.
It was the consistent practice of the Japanese to rob others if they did not fare well, and the national conditions at that time were that as the command organ of the state bandits, the military department, there were also two different robbery schemes, which gave rise to the dispute between the "Imperial Taoist Faction" and the "Unification Faction".
The members of the Imperial Taoist faction are mainly young officers, middle- and lower-ranking army officers, who preach the spirit of Bushido, pledge allegiance to the emperor, and hope that the country will carry out thorough political reforms and realize a militarist state government directly under the emperor's rule and with imperial military officers as the core. Externally, he advocated that Japan should fight a decisive battle with the Soviet Union.
The members of the unification faction, mainly senior generals, advocate that the military department should take the lead in military modernization and the country's domestic and foreign affairs, and steadily promote national development. Foreign countries advocated avoiding the Soviet Union and conquering China first.
Speaking of this, you can see that the two gangs do not have a good person, they are both robbers of the house, and the difference is how to rob them.
At this time, the Japanese Army also had a strange tradition -- "lower kagami" was led by lower-ranking officers to lead the nose of the decision-making level. The "Huanggutun Incident" and the "918 Incident" are both typical cases of the success of this kind of "Xia Ke Shang".
Compared with the old-fashioned control faction, the flesh-and-blood Imperial Daoist faction was even more indignant and frequently carried out assassinations. Even the head of the Military Affairs Bureau was nailed to the door panel with a saber by members of the Imperial Daoist Faction.
Such a non-talk about martial arts play, the control faction was afraid, and planned to quickly transfer the 1st Division regiment, which had been stationed in Tokyo for 30 years as the base camp of the Imperial Daoist faction, to Manchuria as cannon fodder.
Knowing that they would never come back as soon as they left Tokyo, the Imperial Daoists jumped off the wall and decided to do the big thing.
On the morning of February 26, 1936, in the face of heavy snow, about 1,500 Tokyo garrison soldiers, with the imperial military officers as the core, attacked the prime minister's residence, the army province, and the army staff headquarters under the banner of "honoring the emperor and seeking adultery" in several routes.
The rebels killed Admiral Minoru Saito, Army Education Director Natsutaro Watanabe, and Minister of The Great Tibet Takahashi. The Emperor's attendants Kantaro Nagasugi and Metropolitan Police Prime Minister Keisuke Okada escaped death.
On the same night, the rebels further occupied Kasumigaseki (the seat of the japanese central government's provincial offices) and the five major newspapers in Tokyo, requiring each newspaper to publish their "Declaration of Rise" and posting slogans in the areas they occupied, such as "Honoring the Emperor for Adultery" and "Seven Lives repaying the country", and for a time the coup seemed to be really going to succeed.
After handing over the letter to the Emperor, the group of stunned young people dreamed and waited for the Emperor's reply.
In their essay, they put forward seven demands (how always seven), including the restoration of the emperor's absolute power, the arrest of the "culprits and rebels" of the anti-imperial Taoist faction, and so on.
After the incident, the attitude of the Japanese Army Ministry is very interesting. On the evening of the 26th, the Army issued a statement:
"At about 5 a.m. on this day, some young officers attacked the following places: the Prime Minister's official residence, and the Prime Minister died on the spot. Minister Saito's private residence, the Minister of the Interior died on the spot. Watanabe's education director's private residence, the education director died on the spot. Makino's former Minister's Quarters, Yukawahara Itoya Inn, Whereabouts of Count Makino are unknown. Suzuki guards the residence, the guard chief is seriously injured. The private residence of the Minister of Great Tibet in Takahashi, the Minister of Great Tibet was injured. The officers declared that their purpose in raising the matter was to eliminate the elders, important ministers, chaebols, warlords, bureaucrats, political parties, and other culprits who undermined the state system at a time of crisis at home and abroad, so as to uphold the state system in order to uphold the state system for great righteousness. In view of the above situation, the special troops stationed in Beijing were put into a state of extraordinary alert. ”
This is at best a communication stating facts, ignoring the nature of the most critical events. Should the dead deserve to die? Did the officers do it right or wrong? Without saying, the confused Japanese people continued to be confused after reading the statement.
Emperor Hirohito, who wanted to be "restored to power", could not sit still after reading the rebels' notes: Hachigado Road! What do you do? All dead dead there are!
Hirohito's attitude is very resolute and must be suppressed! At this point, the backward military department began to be embarrassed.
After all, the big men of the Imperial Daoist Sect were all in the military department, and their little brother had to cover up no matter how much he made a fool of himself. As a result, sympathizing with the coup to dissuade the coup d'état army once became the mainstream of the military.
Later known as the "Tiger of The Malays", Yamashita Washumi was responsible for coordinating back and forth between the military and the coup forces.
Although wartime vigilance orders were imposed in Tokyo, food supplies were provided to the coup forces.
Compared with the ambiguity of the Army, the Navy has a clear position. Originally, the Japanese army and navy were seriously antagonistic, even to the point where the army built submarines and the navy built tanks, but now your army is fighting in the nest, and it is a matter of our navy, why did you click the people of our navy?
On the first day of the coup, the bubbly navy drove the fleet into Tokyo Bay, aiming its guns at the coup troops and blasting them to smithereens at the first order.
After waiting for a few days without any movement from the Army, the Marines began to assemble and go ashore, even planning to take the Emperor to the warship so as not to be held hostage by the Army.
The emperor also asked three questions a day, did he send troops? When will the troops be dispatched? Why haven't troops been sent yet? He even told the Minister of War, who wanted to ask for mercy, that if the army did not suppress it, then he would personally lead the Janissaries to suppress the rebels.
Both the Emperor and the Navy had done their part, and the military department could only thank the world for not taking any action. As a result, the 29th Japanese army finally designated the rebel army as a rebel and ordered the army to suppress it.
The Martial Law Command read out the "Letter to the Soldiers" by radio and sent planes to distribute 30,000 leaflets to the coup forces, demanding that the soldiers "return immediately", that "all the resisters are rebel thieves, shoot and kill", and "your parents and brothers will become thieves of the country".
When the rebels, who were starving and frozen in the cold wind, heard that their loyalty was described by the emperor as treason, they withered when they ascended, the moral high ground was gone, and the momentum was gone, and they did not wait for the counterinsurgency army to return to the team and surrender.
At this point, the "226 Mutiny" came to an hasty end.
The soldiers were all well returned to the camp, but the 17 mutinous officers could not be all right and were uniformly detained.
Ninji Okamura, who was in charge of the detention, wanted them to kill themselves so that the government would not intervene. And prepared disinfectant potions and degreasing cotton, and also prepared more than 30 coffins (17 people prepared more than 30 mouths, this old devil does not know how to count).
But the rebel officers refused to commit suicide, wanting to "expose the warlords' conspiracy" in court through a public trial.
The War Department, which had suffered a loss once, learned a lesson and did not conduct a public trial, did not allow a defense, and the verdict was final at the first instance. All 17 officers, as well as kita,Ichiki Kita, the imperial thinker who supported the rebellion behind the scenes, and Nishida, a retired military officer, were executed.
After that, the military department carried out a thorough purge of the members of the Imperial Daoist faction, and the unification faction established absolute control over the military department.
On this basis, the Military Department extended its hand to the cabinet and took control of the cabinet's personnel and administrative powers.
As a result, the military department controlled by the unification faction began to override the government and achieve the goal that the Imperial Taoist faction had desperately wanted to achieve before -- the full fascism of the state power.
Since then, Japan has also begun an unhindered desperate race on the road of militarism that will never be recovered.
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Let history shine into the future
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