Matsushima vegetables should be the memories of youth after the 80s and 90s.
In 1998, she co-starred with Takashi Takashi Antimachi in "Spicy Teacher", which was not only popular in Japan, but also introduced to China, becoming the originator of the "campus savage teacher" genre drama.
In 1999, she and her idol Hideaki Takizawa performed "The Condition of the Witch", which is also a unique wonder in the japanese drama campus love category.
The most successful images of Matsushima Cai caizi are all female teachers, and when her Japanese drama was introduced to China, it was exactly the adolescence after 85 to 95, so it is not too much to call it the "youth memories" of a generation.
Matsushima is 173 centimeters tall, but it is not a bone-chilling style, but a very affinity for the oriental beauty, which is why she has won the audience in China.
She has been active in Japanese drama for twenty years, of course, not only relying on the appearance of the goddess, from 1999 to 2013, other actors have rarely won the actress award of the highest award in Japanese drama, she has won five times, and it is not too much to call her the queen of Japanese drama.
However, in 2001, at the age of 28, Naoko Matsushima married Takashi Inomachi, an actor in "Spicy Teacher", at her peak.
In Japan, actresses after marriage have much less opportunities to perform and choose roles.
She is called a "youth memory" because she has not had any new works in recent years.
However, during the National Day in October this year, Matsushima Naoko, who had no new works, was on the hot search because of a "Japanese anti-war drama".
After combing through the North Wind, it was found that during the National Day in 2018 and 2020, Matsushima Naoko and this "Japanese anti-war drama" appeared twice in the Hot Search Topic on the Internet.
What kind of "peculiar anti-war drama" is this?
And what forces for what purpose will this drama be on the top of the hot search every period of time?
I. Unique Japanese "Anti-War Drama"
The most recent thing that made Matsushima Naoko on the hot search was her 2015 starring role in "Red Cross ~ Women's Enlistment Notice".
Some critics define this as an "anti-war drama" and some as an "anti-war film" because its duration is indeed "difficult to define."
"Red Cross ~ Women's Enlistment Notice ~ " is a drama produced by JAPAN's TBS television station , themed on the 70th anniversary of The Japanese Anti-Fascist War , and aired on August 1 and 2, 2015.
Although it is called a drama, it has only two episodes, each of which is 115 minutes long, and the total length is close to 4 hours, so some people define it as "a series of two episodes".
I would suggest that you understand it as a 6-episode anti-war skit.
What kind of story does this "Japanese war drama" tell?
Amano Heshiro, a young girl played by Naiko Matsushima, saw the doctors and nurses take good care of her mother when she was a child, and she had the ambition to become a medical worker.
As an adult, Heshidai Amano received a "notice of enlistment" from the Japanese army (the notice was red and directly clicked on).
Amano Hidai, who was in Japan at the time, was indoctrinated with the idea that "Japan is helping to build Manchuria," which was still a just war.
After becoming the "Red Cross", Amano Hidai was assigned to a hospital set up by the Japanese army in the northeast of China.
The next plot revolves around "Red Cross Doctors rescue The Wounded of China regardless of borders" and Amano's recognition of the injustice of the Japanese war and the germination of anti-war concepts.
Later, Amano Hirshiro married the male protagonist Nakagawa Ande, gave birth to a son Hirohito, and then her husband, who did not want to join the army, was pulled zhuangding, seriously disabled on the front line, and finally sent to the hospital, the husband and wife met for the last time.
If this drama only stays at the level of "medical staff anti-war", "Red Cross personnel fraternity", and "rescue of Chinese soldiers and civilians", it is not a prominent "anti-war drama".
The second half of this drama can be called "the stroke of God".
In 1945, japan was defeated, but the doctors and nurses at the hospital showed a 'smile of relief for peace'.
The most breakthrough of this drama is that it has a very positive depiction of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in northeast China.
When Amano Washidai was preparing to return to Japan by train, the station was bombed by the Soviet Union, and the compatriots in Tohoku saved her and gave her life.
Later, her son Bo Ren went missing with her, and she continued to work as a nurse in the northeast of our country on the one hand, and searched for her son on the other hand.
Her son Bo ren was also taken in and cared for by the kind Chinese.
Later, their hospital was occupied by the "Communist People's Liberation Army".
A group of Japanese doctors and nurses feared being "assaulted," "humiliated," or "shot."
The commanders and fighters of the communist army said:
We are the Communist Party, and we fight wars to liberate all of China.
We fight not by violence, but by ideas.
Our mission is to bring peace to the world.
Although you are Japanese, you are also victims of imperialism and the object of our liberation.
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These lines are so "pure" and make people feel a little abrupt. Because the domestic "anti-Japanese drama" will not talk so directly about the "core of the People's Liberation Army", a Japanese anti-war drama, actually God restored?
The next plot is unprecedented:
These Japanese doctors and nurses really "get comrades" treatment in the people's army. They saved lives in the PLA units and imparted medical knowledge to us unconditionally.
Our army taught them Chinese characters, as well as communist ideas, and gave them the strength of faith.
At the end, Hidai also finds his son Hiroto, who is "completely raised in the care of the Republic" and no longer considers himself a Japanese who committed a criminal war, but has completely Chinese.
The ending ends with the tear-jerking sentiment of "mother and child recognize each other and embrace each other with tears".
This anti-war drama is one of the few (at least the only ones I've seen) in Japan that portrays PLA troops in a positive light.
It is also the first to describe the story of "Japanese military doctors and nurses undergoing ideological reform and settling in China for a long time".
To understand the background of the birth of this "anti-war drama", you need to know five points:
First, this drama is by no means a "Chinese investment" or a "Chinese special edition", but a large-scale production of the 60th anniversary of TvN TV in Japan.
Second, the director of this drama is not an unknown person, it is Katsuo Fukuzawa who directed "Naoki Hanzawa", "Naoki Hanzawa" is still the ratings ceiling of Japanese dramas, and it is also the highest rated Japanese workplace drama in China. Coupled with the queen-level Matsushima vegetables starring, it can be seen that the configuration of this drama is still very sincere.
Third, many of the plots of this drama are filmed in China, and Chinese actors are also hired, and some Japanese and Chinese switching plots are also more respectful to the audience than some anti-Japanese dramas.
Fourth, as a drama of "Japan's Reflection on World War II", is it blindly "elevating the enemy" to reflect its own reflection?
No, this drama also presents the plot of "Soviet soldiers insulting Japanese female nurses", so it is not a reflection film of "the defeated country blindly kneels and licks the victorious country", as an "enemy", only the Communist People's Liberation Army gives a positive image, and represents redemption and faith, and even the future destination.
Fifth, in the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were indeed Japanese medical personnel who were captured by our army, and later accepted our ideological transformation and settled in our country for a long time.
It is precisely because of these five aspects that this "anti-war drama" is not only unique in Japanese dramas, but also considered by many domestic audiences to be beyond some shoddy Chinese anti-war dramas such as "crotch hidden thunder", "hand tearing devils", "buns hiding mines" that do not respect the audience.
Why is this drama on fire at this time?
It must be admitted that "Red Cross" is a refreshing anti-war drama, especially as a mainstream Japanese producer, mainstream actors, on the important anniversary, willing to make such a reflective drama, it is commendable.
However, this is a Japanese anti-war drama from six years ago, which has not been replayed in recent years, but why in recent years, as soon as the National Day file is reached, it has inexplicably turned popular?
That's because in recent years, the National Day period has the main theme of domestic "war theme" movies.
In recent years, after the domestic "war theme" and the main theme of the film have exploded out of the circle and aroused heated discussion among the whole people, there are always some people who put up a "high-pressure grid" and say that they want to let the public see what height foreign anti-war movies have reached?" ”
On this year's National Day, Matsushima vegetables that have not been works for several years suddenly searched, and the "Red Cross" from six years ago was turned over, which is obviously some people pushing for the use of the divine drama of "the defeated country reflecting on the war" to benchmark the war movies and TV series that are popular with the whole people.
We must admit that in Japanese anti-war films, there are "Japanese medical personnel who are indoctrinated by communism."
Japanese medical personnel taught medical knowledge to our army, and eventually settled in our country, and future generations believed that they were "completely Chinese", which was an anti-war drama that was "unprecedented in the pattern".
However, this "anti-war drama" has almost no frontal war 'aggression and anti-aggression' throughout, and the early "saving the Chinese" does not stand on the just stand of anti-aggression, but only the "Fraternal Spirit of the Red Cross".
Therefore, this drama also has "avoidance" in reflecting on the themes of Japan's "aggression and atrocities" in World War II and "the incomparably deep harm to the people of the victimized countries".
The film's reflection on the war is at most sublimated to the level of "harm and disaster for the people of both the invading and occupying countries".
How did even the "anti-war dramas" that were "highly reflective" repercussive in Japan?
The production and broadcast of this drama reflects that there are "very few World War II reflectors" in Japan, but the drama is "mediocre" and has hardly been replayed in the years after its broadcast.
After the episode aired, the director and main cast even received a large number of death threats from the Japanese right.
Therefore, even if "Red Cross" is a reflection on the "history of Aggression in World War II" by a very small number of Japanese intellectuals and entertainers, it still does not represent the mainstream public opinion in Japan.
Therefore, "Red Cross" does not represent the "repentance of World War II" and the good feelings of "the People's Liberation Army and Communism" in the mainstream public opinion in Japan.
On the contrary, once there is dissatisfaction with Japan or the gathering of patriotic enthusiasm in China, there are forces to put this movie on the top of the hot search, and some "add drama to themselves."
How to deal with Japan and Japan's "Reflections on World War II"?
The recent Japanese style street incident and the little boy's "slapping of the Statue of the Japanese Army" have caused some people to shout "the intensification of folk anti-Japanese thinking".
Coupled with the hot screening of the films of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, some people could not sit still, so they put "Red Cross" on the top of the hot search to show Japan's attitude of "people-to-people friendship and reflection on aggression."
What we must clearly understand is that the pace of Japan's "accelerated rightward shift" is intensifying, and the viewpoints of "apologizing to China," "reflecting on World War II," and "being friendly to communism" can only be regarded as "extreme cases" in Japan, and not even "small ideological trends."
Japan did not fully reflect on World War II, comprehensively reflect on the public opinion of aggression, and even adopt an attitude of denying, whitewashing, and deleting from textbooks the Nanjing Massacre and the issue of comfort women in many Asian countries.
The mainstream public opinion in Japan does not have a tendency to reconcile and reflect on apologizing, and we have no right to forgive the victims of World War II!
Of course, the red cross drama, as well as the production and cast of the drama, can spread such ideas in right-leaning Japan, and we should pay tribute to it.
What we need to do is to use the power of thunder at the right time in the future to let the Japanese people learn to reflect, and let them take the spiritual core of the "Red Cross" as the mainstream of the next generation's historical cognition in the future.
Only in this way can we bring "repentance" and "reflection" to the whole Japanese society on World War II!