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During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Xianglan, a popular Chinese film star and singer, performed for Japan at Japan's Founding Festival, and said: "Thank you for the scars on the warriors." ”
In the eyes of Chinese, this is a naked traitorous behavior, which makes it difficult for many viewers who love her to accept, however, what makes everyone even more unacceptable is still behind.
In 1945, after the defeat of Japan, Li Xianglan was indicted for "traitorous crimes", and just when everyone thought that she would be sentenced to death, she exonerated herself with one sentence and was released in February 1946.
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Li Xianglan, formerly known as Shuko Yamaguchi, was born on February 12, 1920 in Bei yantai, next to Fengtian (Shenyang), and is now a city of beacons in Liaoning Province.
Li Xianglan's grandfather was Hiroshi Yamaguchi, a man with a great love for Chinese culture, and came to Manchuria with his family in 1906. Her father, Fumio Yamaguchi, held a position at the Fushun Coal Mine owned by the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., and Li Xianglan moved to Fushun with her family.
At the age of thirteen, her father was suspected of collusion with the Japanese army, so she was imprisoned, and she and her family had to choose to flee in order to survive.
On the train to Shenyang, Li Xianglan met the person who changed her life's destiny. This person is Liuba, she is a Russian, because she and Li Xianglan are very close, so they became friends.
After liuba's introduction, he was under the door of a famous singer in the Soviet Union at that time, and this master was Madame Podolisov. As the saying goes, a famous teacher makes a high disciple. Li Xianglan worshiped under a singing master, and then absorbed more singing knowledge after the teacher's click.
Due to her natural good voice and outstanding appearance, Li Xianglan soon debuted as a female singer. In the second year, Li Xianglan officially changed her name, she was no longer called Shuko Yamaguchi, and her father finally determined his daughter's name as Li Xianglan after a variety of considerations and many factors.
In fact, the word "pandan" has a source. Fumio Yamaguchi is a sinologist who used to use "pandan" as his pen name when writing haiku (Japanese classical short poems), and the orchid symbolizes high purity and elegance, from this point of view, Li Jichun is also quite cultural.
Li Xianglan grew up in her father's education since she was a child, learning Chinese with him and learning various Chinese customs and habits, so her behavior is no different from Chinese. Whether it's chatting or going to school, no one can tell that she's actually a foreigner.
By the 1930s, Li Xianglan had become a hot superstar in the northeast region. However, the northeast is a small place after all.
At that time, The Northeast had already established the puppet state of Manchukuo at the instigation of Japan. If the next step of aggression was to be carried out, the Japanese would have to systematically unfold their plans. Among them, cultural aggression is an important part.
Thus, in the year that Japan began its all-out invasion of China, Li Xianglan officially entered the film industry in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Because of the japanese propaganda, coupled with Li Xianglan's own outstanding strength, she quickly became popular, but this also made her a "tool" to whitewash peace, performing in Manchuria, Taiwan and Chinese mainland.
Because of the propaganda and momentum of the Japanese side, almost no one knew that she was Japanese, and everyone at that time thought that she was a Manchurian-born Chinese, so the name "Manchurian Flower" was born.
Under the publicity and packaging of the Japanese side, Li Xianglan's acting career can be said to be smooth sailing and smooth.
At that time, Li Xianglan starred in many movies, but these films had a strong political element.
Li Xianglan recalled afterwards that she was very helpless about "Man Ying". She said that the Japanese persuaded her parents in Fengtian to sign an exclusive contract with her on the grounds of "for the sake of the country", and that she had a full schedule of filming for the year without her knowing.
Starting from "Honeymoon Express", Li Xianglan has successively filmed "Song of Bailan", "Night of China", "The Oath of Resha", "Rich And Noble Spring Dream", "Spring Flower", "Flowing Fang of All Ages", "Revenge of the Wronged Souls" and other series of movies. However, in these movies, it is a theme of "goodwill in the day".
In 1940, Li Xianglan's "Night of China" caused strong dissatisfaction among Chinese.
Because this film tells the story of a Japanese boy who slaps the Chinese girl played by Li Xianglan, but makes the Chinese girl fall in love with the Japanese boy.
This story seriously hurts Chinese people, believing that the Chinese girls in the movie insult China's national character and are a betrayal of the Chinese.
Li Xianglan always plays Chinese women who sympathize with the Japanese in the film, and even the kind of Chinese women who have suffered from the Japanese and originally have hatred for Japan.
She perfectly achieved the goal of making a full film, that is, to beautify the image of Japan through movies, to confuse Chinese perception of aggression with movies, and to constantly rationalize aggression.
This kind of "brainwashing" was amazingly powerful through Li Xianglan's harmless image and outstanding performance, and she was famous throughout the Japanese occupation zone at that time, with a large number of fans.
Li Xianglan
Many of these fans were deceived by this "brainwashing" and unconsciously developed sympathetic and even rationalized ideas for the Japanese invaders.
For this reason, Li Xianglan has a deep sense of guilt, and she feels that this practice of concealing her identity has deceived the feelings of the Chinese and Japanese peoples at the same time.
In the early 1940s, Li Xianglan began to move to Shanghai Beach. Before Li Xianglan, there were already Zhou Xuan, Bai Guang, Zhang Lu and Wu Yingyin collectively known as the "Four Queens of Shanghai Beach".
In 1941, Li Xianglan went to Tokyo as a messenger of goodwill to give a solo concert. Thousands of people flocked to the ticket office to grab tickets in order to watch her performance, and the venue was full of discarded clogs and women's red scarves, which was no less crazy than the current star chasers. This incident was later known as the famous "Seven-and-a-Half Laps Incident of Japanese Theater" in Japanese history.
After the performance, Li Xianglan was draped in a dirty coat by Kodama Hidemizu to escape from the theater.
In 1944, Mr. Li Jinguang composed lyrics and composed music, originally sang Li Xianglan, and a song "Night Fragrance" caused a sensation in the world. The song also pushed her artistic career to the pinnacle.
However, Li Xianglan behind the aura has been struggling in the abyss of pain.
"I was accidentally manipulated by fate in the guise of 'Age of War'... By the time I realized, I was caught between china, the rival mother country, and my motherland, Japan, with sparks of fighting all over my body," Li Xianglan recalled.
On August 9, 1945, a concert jointly organized by China and Japan, "Night Fragrance Fantasia", was held at the Shanghai International Racecourse, the protagonist was Li Xianglan, when she sang the last song, even Zhou Xuan and Bai Yang also came on stage to present flowers and hugs for her, goldfish beauty, nightingale singing, and the scenery was unique for a while.
However, after only six days, Li Xianglan fell from the highly anticipated stage to the Hongkou Shelter in Shanghai.
On August 15, 1945, Li Xianglan took to the street as usual in order to go to Ms. Bena Mazell to receive vocal instruction. When I first walked to the vicinity of Fuxi Road, the street was already crowded with people, like a festival, noisy and noisy.
Li Xianglan intermittently heard some Chinese comments from the crowd: "Japan has surrendered!" "The war is over!" "China is still Chinese!" ”...... Li Xianglan immediately realized that Japan had surrendered.
Subsequently, the government of the Republic of China began to arrest and liquidate the traitors, including Li Xianglan.
According to the data, when Li Xianglan was escorted to the car on the charge of adultery, she was silent the whole time, and during the interrogation, she was also very cooperative in confessing in the face of the crimes listed by the Republic of China government as a "traitor."
When he learned that the result of the interrogation was "death penalty", his emotions did not fluctuate much, and just when everyone thought that all this was a foregone conclusion and would end with the "death penalty", on the day of the execution, Li Xianglan, the "female traitor", actually opened her mouth to defend. Li Xianglan told the truth that she was Japanese.
At that time, the Chinese people unanimously believed that Li Xianglan said that he was Japanese in order to escape the punishment of "traitorous crimes".
The judge questioned Li Xianglan: "How can you prove that Shuko Yamaguchi, Li Xianglan, and Pan Shuhua are the same person?" ”
Li Xianglan and her father Fumio Yamaguchi
Li Xianglan cried and said, "I am really Japanese, really Japanese!" My name is Shuko Yamaguchi, my father Fumio Yamaguchi was a Chinese language instructor in Fushun Mantetsu, and my mother's name is Aiko Ishibashi..."
In February 1946, the courtroom of the Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government in Shanghai was once again opened, and the auditorium was full of people. Li Xianglan showed documents proving her true identity.
The judge faced Li Xianglan, who was standing in the defendant's seat with his head hanging down, and announced the final judgment: "After investigation, the defendant ... Li Xianglan, formerly known as Shuko Yamaguchi, is a Japanese expatriate born in China. ...... Due to the confirmation of his Japanese nationality, according to the Geneva Conventions... In the relevant article, the previously determined death penalty is not convicted of immediate execution,...... He is hereby released in court and repatriated at a later date. ”
After receiving the verdict handed by the bailiff, Li Xianglan's excited tears flowed down her cheeks.
On the day of departure, she heard "Night Incense" on the Shanghai dock, and unlike when she came, none of her fans appeared at the Shanghai dock when she left, after all, no one would want to send an invader back.
At this moment, a person hurried to arrive, he was the author of "Night Incense" Li Jinguang, Li Jinguang waved to Li Xianglan, the two people looked at each other and smiled, and then Li Xianglan sang "Night Fragrance" again with tears.
That is, on that day, there was no more Li Xianglan in the world, only Shuko Yamaguchi in Japan.
After being sent back to Japan, Li Xianglan did not stop her work on stage performances, mainly active in the film and television industry, and for a while planned to enter Hollywood. While studying in Hollywood, she met many American artists, including Chaplin, and met her first husband, the Japanese-American carver Isamu Noguchi, but the two divorced shortly after their marriage. After unsuccessfully entering Hollywood, Li Xianglan is no longer obsessed with the identity of an artist.
In 1974, Li Xianglan was invited by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to accept the nomination of the Liberal Democratic Party, participate in the election of the 10th House of Councillors and was elected, officially entering the political arena. Since then, Li Xianglan has served as vice minister of environmental affairs, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Issues, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and director of the LDP Women's (Female) Bureau, and retired from politics in the early 1990s as vice chairman of the Asian Women's Foundation, hoping to promote the Japanese government to publicly compensate and apologize to the victims of that war, especially the comfort women.
In 2005, when then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi brazenly announced his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, Li Xianglan, who was already 85 years old, even disregarded the right-wingers' attack on her as a "Japanese traitor" again, and published the last long article of his life in the press, exhorting the Japanese prime minister not to pay homage to those who were Class A war criminals, because "that would deeply hurt the hearts of Chinese."
At 10:42 a.m. on September 7, 2014, Li Xianglan passed away at the age of 94. Some media commented: "Ms. Li Xianglan supported and participated in the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship after the war and made positive contributions to this end, and we mourn her passing away." "
After her death, the spokesperson of the Mainland Foreign Ministry also said that Li Xianglan has made certain positive contributions to the friendly relations between China and Japan, and although she has done some things for Japan to hurt China, she knows how to recognize her mistakes and is a person worthy of mourning, and we also deeply regret Li Xianglan's death.