Why is Li Xianglan, who was popular all over China during the Anti-Japanese War, just a pawn packaged by the Manchurian Film Association? Just hoping to use her to paralyze Chinese's fighting spirit?
Li Xianglan advertising poster
"Night incense I sing for you, night incense I think for you..."
During the Anti-Japanese War, a song "Night Fragrance" became popular all over the country and was sung by thousands of people.
To this day, as long as this melody sounds, people's thoughts will still be dragged back to the old Shanghai Beach, remembering the scene of the coexistence of two scenes of war and song and dance in the Ten Mile Ocean Field.
This song has also made countless Chinese familiar and remember this flowery and moon-looking woman, Li Xianglan.
Li Xianglan was a touching man since childhood, and at the age of 13 he studied vocal music with the soprano singer Mrs. Podolesov, the Bolshoi Theater.
At the age of 17, just after graduating from Peiping Yi's goddaughter high school, the versatile Li Xianglan was discovered by the Manchurian Film Association and invited to sing and dub songs.
She sang songs such as "Fisher Girl", "Zhaojun Resentment" and "Meng Jiang Nu" on the radio station, and soon rose to prominence.
In 1942, Li Xianglan went to Shanghai to develop, starred in the movie "Ten Thousand Worlds Flowing" and sang the theme song "Selling Sugar Song" and the episode "Quit Smoking Song", which attracted the attention of people from all walks of life and became a rising star.
Later, with the launch of songs such as "Night Fragrance" and "Hate to Meet When I Was Not Married", Li Xianglan's name quickly spread throughout the country and became a hit.
At that time, the movies starring Li Xianglan were often released in Taiwan, Japan, North China, Shanghai and other places, and under the promotion of the Manchurian Film Association, Li Xianglan was also known as the four actresses of the Republic of China together with Butterfly, Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Xuan.
But what Li Xianglan didn't know was that from the moment he stepped into the Manchurian Film Association and starred in movies, he laid the groundwork for the sorrow and pain in his life.
The glorious big star Li Xianglan is actually Japanese? Watch her torn and manipulated life.
This naturally beautiful beauty, the songs she sang have been sung by countless people as classics, and the starring movies have been firmly remembered by a generation, but in fact, she is a "sugar-coated cannonball" carefully packaged by the Japanese, and was launched as a Chinese by the Japanese authorities who were planning to paralyze the will of the Chinese people to fight.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, Li Xianglan was arrested on charges of espionage and cultural traitor.
Because many of the movies he starred in are the same plot: a Chinese girl falls in love with an excellent Japanese youth, and the Chinese girl played by Li Xianglan has experienced various obstacles and misunderstandings and wants to marry a Japanese youth or a Japanese soldier.
It is nakedly whitewashing Japan's aggression against China, beautifying Japan's military and political image, and vainly trying to brainwash the people.
At the trial bench of the national military court, Li Xianglan defended herself, believing that she had only played some roles according to the arrangements of others, and did not realize that she had become a political tool.
In the end, Li Xianglan, who had no choice, took out her Japanese household registration certificate and said, "I did not harm the motherland because I am Japanese."
The words shocked the four seats, and after careful investigation, the court found that the identity certificate provided by Li Xianglan was indeed true.
In the end, the court could only acquit Li Xianglan, but also clearly pointed out that Li Xianglan starred in "Branch" under the stage name of Chinese. Films such as That Night are ethically and morally questionable.
It turned out that Li Xianglan's real name was Shuko Yamaguchi, her ancestral home was Saga Prefecture, Japan, and her father Fumio Yamaguchi came to Fushun in the northeast in 1906, married a Japanese girl Ishibashi Ai and gave birth to a daughter, named Shuko Yamaguchi.
A few years later, Fumio Yamaguchi recognized his daughter as a righteous father Chinese Li Jichun, and his daughter also had a Chinese name, Li Xianglan.
Li Xianglan, who has studied in Peiping since she was a child, has never been suspected of being Japanese by people around her.
Star Li Xianglan was arrested on charges of traitor, proved her Japanese identity and was released, and actively promoted Sino-Japanese friendly relations after returning to Japan
The year after the trial, Li Xianglan, who received a deportation certificate, boarded a cruise ship and returned to Japan.
On the way back, Li Xianglan carefully thought about the plot in the movie she starred in, and suddenly realized that she was full of regret, Li Xianglan's mood is mixed, both regret and infinite entanglement and contradiction, because she was born and raised in China since she was a child, and the memories of her life in the first half of her life are in China.
For her, China is her hometown. But what cannot be changed is that her home country is Japan.
Once, when she returned to Japan, she was asked by a Japanese customs official: "Aren't you ashamed that you are a national of a first-class country, but you wear the clothes of a third-class country?" ”
Li Xianglan recalled: "The people of my motherland despise the mother country that gave birth to me and raised me, and I feel very sad. ”
Her life is destined to be torn and contradictory, and after starring in those deliberately arranged movies, she has a shame that cannot be washed away.
She was tormented by a long-term feeling of pain and self-blame.
After returning to Japan, Li Xianglan actively devoted herself to the work of Sino-Japanese friendship, eager to make up for her mistakes.
She also published books exposing Japan's invasion of China and telling Japanese teenagers that this was all true.
In 2005, 85-year-old Li Xianglan published a long article opposing Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, clearly expressing his opposition to Japan's invasion of China and expressing his repentance.
In her later years, Li Xianglan made a lot of contributions to promoting Sino-Japanese friendship, and in September 2014, 94-year-old Li Xianglan passed away, ending her legendary life.