Author: Rainbow Kursk
According to Japanese media reports on July 18, Japanese actor Haruma Miura was found dead at his home in Tokyo and suspected of committing suicide.
The sudden bad news made fans express disbelief.
In 2007, 17-year-old Haruma Miura starred in the movie "Love Sky". Most Chinese audiences' first impression of him is that of a handsome male student with silver hair, Hiroki, and an invincible shinigaki yut sitting in the back seat of the bicycle.
Photo: Popular Japanese actor Haruma Miura committed suicide at home.
For military fans, the understanding of Haruma Miura may have begun with a militarist movie "Forever Zero" cloaked in anti-war clothing.
Contradictory films like "Forever Zero", Japan actually made many, many films after the war, such as "Yamamoto Fifty-Six" and "Ah! The Navy," "Yamato the Man," "The Death of Me," "The Battle of Archimedes," These films are basically similar in appearance and content.
On the one hand, it takes the anti-war sentiment of the little people as the main line, and on the other hand, it also writes a big book to be loyal to the emperor, go to the battlefield to fight, etc., shaping the protagonist into a "hero" who has to go to the battlefield and sacrifice small righteousness for the great righteousness, called anti-war, but in fact, "anti-war defeat"!
Image: Haruma Miura plays a young man who pursues the history of his ancestors in "Forever Zero".
The movie "Forever Zero" is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Naoki Hyakuda, which is a war film based on the pilot of the Japanese Zero fighter jet during World War II, and the Japanese media said that it was an exploration of the brutal background of the war of aggression and the pursuit of personal life and peace.
In the movie, Haruma Miura is not the male protagonist.
He plays a young boy named Kentaro Saobō who has failed the judicial exam and has been transformed from a highly qualified student with excellent lawyer qualifications to a crippled young man.
Because Haruma Miura's appearance is still more in line with the "Heisei" style, and it is very different from the "Showa face" in World War II, it is not possible to expect him to play a Zero fighter pilot.
In the film, Kentaro Sabo, who happens to be at the trough of his life, receives a semi-forced employment call from his sister to investigate the life of "that person"—Kentaro's brother's maternal grandfather, kentaro's mother's biological father who died in the war, Miyabe Hisazo.
Photo: The "Showa" face in old Japanese movies is very different from the "Heisei" and "Reiwa" faces of modern Japanese male stars.
Since then, the story has entered the routine of Japanese "anti-war" movies, piecing together a complete image of the real protagonist, Miyabe Hisazo, a master of air combat struggling in psychological contradictions, from the mouths of various veterans.
He struggled to fight death, survived bloody battles, and only to see his wife again. In the end, he suddenly chose to become a kamikaze and blew himself up before Japan surrendered (still called surrender but the end of the war in the movie).
Before Miyabe's death, he entrusted his wife and daughter to a young pilot, Lieutenant Oishi. The so-called "entrustment" is to let the other party marry his own wife and replace him to "accompany his wife and daughter".
Image: The movie "Forever Zero".
This strange transformation came very suddenly, but it was the "best of both worlds" in the Japanese mind, and the tangled Miyabe Kuzo chose to be loyal to the emperor in the end, although it seemed to take the form of personal feelings such as avoiding the death of young pilots.
So why didn't Lieutenant Oishi, who was chosen by Miyabe Kuzo, choose to "crush jade" and maintain his image of a loyal monarch?
Because the teacher's entrustment is "small love and small righteousness", dying for the emperor is "great love and great righteousness".
That's how it's solved in the movie!
The Emperor's Edict of the Final Battle has been issued! Well, now there is no need to die, the emperor said no fight! Historically, the Allies were also confused, and the little Japanese, who had just been fighting fiercely and were about to die, suddenly surrendered, and then took the Allied soldiers to inspect their barracks, and it was possible that the whole battalion would surrender to a small group of Allied soldiers.
Image: Stills from Forever Zero.
This is the loyal monarch in the minds of the Japanese, the emperor can not be wrong, the emperor said to fight, the emperor said "the end of the war" will stop.
The Japanese people are deeply aware of the true meaning of the "Edict of the Final War", and the quotation in the film is precisely where the "essence" lies: it is difficult to endure the desire to endure, it is difficult to endure, and it is difficult to endure, thinking that the peace of all the worlds is too peaceful...
The emperor spoke grandly and compassionately, because he could not bear to see his subjects killed or wounded again, and chose to end the war rather than surrender, without the slightest repentance. It is precisely in this way that those war criminals have also become "heroes" in the Yasukuni Shrine who are visited by political parties and the people!
So why is the anti-war in the movie actually anti-"defeat"?
Because many places in Japan are entangled in various "anti-war movies", but the entanglements and reflections here are stuck in the details.
For example: there should be no war with the United States (because it should have known that the fight could not be won); naval aviation should be developed first; the Battle of Midway should not be exchanged between torpedoes and bombs... Japanese reflection has never risen to the level of justice and philosophy, and he considers all his mistakes to be "technical mistakes."
It seems like, if I had been like that, it wouldn't have ended like this...
Image: Stills from the movie Forever Zero.
In this mindset, films such as "Forever Zero" that summon the soul of militarism in the guise of anti-war will be available in the future.
And because of the layer of clothing he wears, it seems that he will also be sought after by some Chinese audiences.
We still have to polish our eyes, see clearly under those anti-war cloaks, and remain vigilant!