In China, there was once a group of women who were sexually abused during the Japanese invasion of China, and they were comfort women who had to serve a long line of Japanese soldiers. Over time, by 2014, only 22 comfort women had survived Chinese mainland, and even fewer now.
From 1931 to 1945, the Japanese army invaded China and forcibly recruited 200,000 Chinese women as "sex slaves", and "comfort women" were the titles imposed on these women by the Japanese army. The Japanese army established the world's first comfort station in Shanghai, which lasted the longest and had the largest number of comfort women.
On the eve of Japan's surrender, the Japanese military, fearing that the atrocities would be exposed, went on a killing spree, at least 75 percent of whom died in the massacre. The few survivors who survived thought they could live a good life, but what awaited them was another kind of pain.
The feudal concept of chastity made many backward people discriminate against these comfort women and exclude them. They can't live a normal life, let alone get married and have children.
Qiao Liang's film "Zhenzhen" tells the story of comfort women. Based on Ding Ling's novel "When I Was in Xia village", the film starred Zhang Tong and won the second prize and best screenplay award at the 4th Film Channel TV Movie Lily Awards, and the Best Film Award and the Best TV Film Director Award at the 10th University Student Film Festival.
01. After Zhenzhen and Dog Baby Niang escaped from the Japanese military camp, Dog Baby Niang committed suicide
At the beginning of the film, Zhenzhen and the dog lady, who have been tortured for three years in the Japanese military camp, escape from all kinds of hardships.
The two fled to a village entrance and washed their faces with water at the well. At this time, an old woman in the village came out, and after she knew that Zhenzhen and the dog baby lady had escaped from the Japanese military camp, she said with emotion that the wife of the ten-mile blacksmith had also escaped from the Japanese military camp, and she hanged herself.
The dog girl was stunned and said, "Why did she die?" She died her baby? ”
The old woman sighed and said, "Why are you so confused, what does the child want her to do as a mother?" In the future, I can't even say a daughter-in-law. ”
Only then did the dog girl realize the new problem, she and Zhenzhen were no longer innocent. The old woman said again: If you are a comfort woman, you should not come back. Then, the old woman walked away trembling.
The dog girl was stunned for a long time, and she said to Zhenzhen in despair: "If I die, you must tell the dog baby that as soon as his mother entered the Japanese military camp, she crashed and died." ”
Then, when Zhenzhen was not paying attention, the dog baby lady jumped into the well and committed suicide, and her ring was placed on the well platform.
02, after Zhenzhen returned home, she was not accepted by everyone
Zhenzhen looked at the well, surprised, and tears immediately flowed. They had worked so hard to escape, and now they saw that they were about to arrive home, but the dog lady committed suicide. With tears in her eyes, Zhenzhen put the ring on her finger and went home alone.
Zhenzhen returned to Kasumi's home, which was in ruins and had nothing left. It turned out that after Zhenzhen was captured by the Japanese, Zhenzhenniang went crazy, and later she set fire to the house and burned herself to death.
Zhenzhen spent the night in the ruins, and the next morning when she went to her second aunt's house, she heard two women in the village discussing her. One said she was wearing a ring on her hand, which must have been given to her by the Japanese soldiers; the other said that Zhenzhen was not even as good as her broken shoes now.
After Zhenzhen arrived at the second aunt's house, the second aunt did not even open the door, and said across the door panel: "Don't blame the second aunt, your two sisters are not yet married!" ”
Zhenzhen went to find her fiancé Xia Dabao, who had already married her. He hid from chastity like a dirty thing, not even looking at chastity in the right eye.
03, Chastity is full of ashes, and I thought of hanging myself
Three years ago, my mother wanted to give the 19-year-old Zhenzhen Xu to the rice shop owner in a neighboring village and become the second wife of the rice shop owner. But Zhenzhen insisted on being with Xia Dabao, and she did not dislike Xia Dabao's poor family, and the two were in love.
Then one day, Zhenzhen and Xia Dabao came home from outside the village with a donkey and found that the village had been occupied by Japanese soldiers. As soon as the Japanese soldiers saw the jade-like chastity, they were beastly, and five soldiers gang-raped chastity in front of the whole village.
Xia Dabao was held at the top of the gun and could not save Zhenzhen. When the virgin saw her daughter being ruined in the crowd, she could not save her daughter, so she slapped herself. Later, the Japanese soldiers took Zhenzhen away, and Zhenzhen became a comfort woman.
Now Zhenzhen has escaped back, but the family is gone, the mother is dead, the lover is gone, the relatives reject her thousands of miles away, the people in the village discuss her, and everyone avoids her. ZhenZhen's thoughts were all gray, and he thought of hanging himself. But at the moment of hanging, she saw the ring on her hand and thought of the dog's mother's instructions.
Zhenzhen found the dog doll, who had become a beggar since her mother was taken away. When Zhenzhen gave the ring to the dog, the dog said that he was hungry, and Zhenzhen took him to find food.
04, Zhenzhen took the dog into the bandit's village
Zhenzhen and the dog baby mistakenly came to the bandit's village and tried to steal some food, but they were discovered. The bandit leader, Zhu Laosi, saw that Zhenzhen was very beautiful, and said that as long as Zhenzhen played with their brothers, he would give Zhenzhen something to eat.
Zhenzhen was very strong, and immediately grabbed a gun, released a shot, and said, "As long as you don't go to Kang, you can do anything!" ”
Zhu Laosi was stunned, he was impressed by Zhenzhen's courage and backbone, and left Zhenzhen and the dog doll behind. After that, Zhenzhen helped the bandits to cook and wash, etc., and her life was temporarily settled, but every night she always had nightmares and dreamed about things in the Japanese military camp.
Chastity lit a fire and brandished torches to drive out demons. After Zhu Laosi saw it, he guessed that Zhenzhen must have experienced something terrible, and he was very distressed about Zhenzhen.
Later, there was very little grain left in the village, and Zhu Laosi led people to grab the grain of the Japanese. However, after they arrived at the Japanese military camp, they were unfortunately found, and the dog in charge of the sentry was killed by the Japanese on the spot, and Zhu Laosi was also shot.
05. Zhenzhen saved the bandit leader Zhu Laosi
After fleeing back to the village, Lang Zhong said that he could only ask a Western doctor to take a bullet for Zhu Laosi to save his life, but where to ask for Western medicine? Zhenzhen knew the Western doctors in the Japanese military camp, so she immediately took a few bandits to arrest the Western doctors.
When Zhenzhen was arrested as a comfort woman, the Western doctors in the Japanese military camp sterilized her and spoiled her. Now, after this Western doctor was caught, Zhenzhen's work as a comfort woman was exposed. After Zhu Laosi's bullets were taken out, the bandits killed the Western doctors.
Because Zhenzhen had been a comfort woman, the bandits began to dislike Zhenzhen and did not let her take care of Zhu Laosi. Zhenzhen felt that she could not stay in the village any longer, so she could only quietly leave.
After leaving the village, Zhenzhen met a coal merchant who wanted to find a woman to have a child and decided to take Zhenzhen home. When they arrived at the town to stay, they met a comfort woman who had also escaped from the Japanese barracks, and she knew Zhenzhen. When the two were talking in private, they were overheard by the merchant, who threw down his virginity.
After Zhu Laosi's health improved a bit, he learned that Zhenzhen was gone, so he immediately rode his horse to chase Zhenzhen. After he caught up with Zhenzhen, he fell off his horse and fainted because of the wound attack, and Zhenzhen sent him back.
06, Zhenzhen detonated explosives and died with the Japanese army
After returning to the village, Zhu Laosi heard that the Eighth Route Army was recruiting troops in Xia Village, and he wanted to join the Eighth Route Army and fight the Japanese army together. Because Zhenzhen was from Xia Village, he asked Zhenzhen to go back to Xiacun to inquire about the situation, but Zhenzhen did not have the courage to go back when she thought of the attitude of the villagers to her.
Zhu Laosi immediately said domineeringly, "You are my woman Zhu Laosi, and there is no place where Zhu Laosi's woman cannot go." ”
Zhenzhen was very touched and felt that she was being treated like a person again, so she bravely returned to Kasumi Village. The Eighth Route Army came to Xia Village, and everything changed, and the Eighth Route Army respected Zhenzhen very much. They said they welcomed all anti-Japanese forces to join their ranks, including bandits.
Zhenzhen was very happy and immediately went back to the village to tell Zhu Laosi, but the Japanese had already gone to the village one step ahead of her. In the village, Zhu Laosi and the bandits were killed, and their daily necessities were looted. Zhenzhen looked at all this, grief-stricken, and she vowed to avenge everyone.
Zhenzhen dressed herself up and then used her status as a comfort woman to return to the Japanese barracks. The Japanese army saw Zhenzhen, an acquaintance, and let down their vigilance, and Zhenzhen detonated the explosives tied to his coat, and then the barracks instantly became a sea of fire, and Zhenzhen and the Japanese army died together.
epilogue:
Zhenzhen's body was ruined by the Japanese soldiers, but her heart was always pure. When Old Zhu Si asked her to play with her brothers, she did not break the jar for a mouthful of food, she still maintained the dignity of being a woman. Because of this, Zhu Laosi was touched, and he was impressed by the personality charm of Zhenzhen.
The comfort women were victims of the war, and Zhenzhen fled the Japanese barracks and returned to her own side. But the ignorant villagers, because of the concept of chastity, mentally persecute chastity, how terrible is this human nature!
In World War II, the Japanese army not only recruited Chinese women as comfort women, but also women in other Asian countries were deeply persecuted.
On September 27, 2017, the Women's Family Committee of the South Korean Parliament passed a bill to designate August 14 of each year as the Day of Remembrance of Comfort Women.
Comfort women should not be forgotten, and it is necessary to remember history and its victims in order to remember the cruelty and horror of war and not to let history repeat itself.
Looking back at history, we should not forget the national shame, our generation should be self-reliant, and we must strive to build a strong motherland. If society wants to progress, it must abandon those feudal concepts and know how to respect and tolerate.
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