#Article Debut Challenge#CCTV Movie Channel has always been affectionately called the "Six Princesses" by the audience because of her cute and contrasting characters. She once broadcast "Japan Sinks" on the anniversary of Chinese the Nanjing Massacre, "Pearl Harbor" when the United States visited Japan, and "Heroic Children" and "Shangganling" during the Sino-US trade war.
But recently, some netizens discovered that the movie channel actually included three Japanese movies called "Samurai Trilogy" into the broadcast catalog, which caused dissatisfaction among many Chinese people and blamed them. They felt that the broadcast of these movies was to promote and praise the spirit of the Japanese samurai, and it was the "bushido spirit" that was exalted during the Japanese invasion of China. Therefore, there is a great deal of resistance to this from the point of view of national hatred and national feelings.
So in the end, are the Chinese people's worries right? Is it a weak leg or a cultural exchange, let us carefully analyze.
What exactly is the samurai trilogy about?
Japan's "Samurai Trilogy" includes three films: "Seibei at Dusk", "Hidden Sword Ghost Claw", and "Samurai's One Minute". These three films are set against the historical backdrop of the declining samurai system in the Edo period, and tell the story of three low-level samurai.
"Seibei at Dusk" tells the story of a low-level samurai, Kiyobei who is skilled in martial arts but is content with poverty, willing to take care of his mother and family, and interprets the gentleness and responsibility of a man; "Hidden Sword Ghost Claw" tells the story of the samurai Katagiri Sozo's poor and happy life; "Samurai's Points" tells the story of the lower-level samurai Shinnojo who upholds the dignity of the samurai after his eyes are blind.
The protagonists of all three films are lower-class samurai, and the director uses the lower-class samurai samurai, who are at the bottom of the samurai class, as a starting point to show their lives. Their daily routine is not to fight and kill, but more to firewood, rice, oil and salt. The samurai is more akin to a kind of work, and outside of work is warm family affection and touching love. Through these three films, the director critiques and reinterprets the samurai spirit, introducing the concept of "life", and in fact, the final theme of the trilogy is anti-samurai.
Therefore, if you throw away the national attributes of these three movies, you will not lose the fact that they are all relatively good films, and the Douban score is above 8 points. The relevant comments did not accuse these three films of implying wolf ambitions, but were more moved by the brilliance of humanity displayed by the little people.
Is playing the "Samurai Trilogy" a cultural invasion?
The reason why many netizens reacted so strongly to the broadcast of the "Samurai Trilogy" on the CCTV movie channel is that there have been endless cultural invasions in recent years.
The most representative of the invasion of Japanese culture is the anime invasion and the poison textbook incident. Among them, the animation invasion began in the eighties and nineties of the last century, when TV was full of Japanese anime, and the content of these anime was uneven, and many of them hid different values and influenced generations of Chinese. Now if you ask the young people Ultraman, everyone must know it, and if you ask about stories such as Hotaru Yingxue and Kuafu, there must be some people who stutter and it takes a long time to tell it, and with the promotion of anime, Japanese goods at that time will be so popular.
The "poisonous textbook" incident has refreshed the bottom line of a country, and the Jingri culture has been hidden in the textbooks, which has imperceptibly affected our next generation.
In addition, there are various Japanese cultural festivals, Japanese schools, Japanese style streets, and so on, which are gradually incorporating into the minds of teenagers. This invisible cultural infiltration and invasion is slowly transforming the minds of our next generation, and more and more students are learning Xi Japanese, and more and more young people are traveling to Japan. When they come to identify with them, they will forget history and the suffering of our nation.
How terrible is a cultural invasion? It breaks our backbone!
Speaking of the "Samurai Trilogy", although art has no borders and the themes of its connotation are good, the result of artistic influence has borders. The main character in the movie dressed as a samurai may have a special political and historical meaning under the love house and the black house, which makes many people misunderstand the samurai spirit and think that it is actually good.
Our country has made great efforts to carry out patriotic education, and Japan's invasion of China has also brought indelible pain to our nation, and forgetting history is betrayal. So I think that the "Samurai Trilogy", even if it is not a cultural invasion, is also a kind of soft infiltration of culture, which is worthy of our vigilance, and the worries of netizens are not groundless.
Recommendations for guarding against "cultural invasion".
The broadcast of the "Samurai Trilogy" this time should be related to the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between CCTV and Japan's Yoshimoto Industrial Company. It is expected that more movies and TV series will be launched on CCTV in the future. If the selected works will be positive, from a positive point of view, it will undoubtedly contribute to cultural exchanges between China and Japan and strengthen the ties between the two countries. From the reverse point of view, there is no doubt that Japan has given the opportunity for cultural invasion, so here are three suggestions.
1. Cultural exchange should be a two-way street. We can't just broadcast Japanese movies and TV dramas in our country, and Japan's national television station should also broadcast China's excellent film and television works. For example, "Shangganling", "Tunnel War", "Bright Sword" and so on, let the Japanese audience also understand our Chinese culture.
2. Strengthen content moderation and beware of cultural espionage. The "Wu Yong" of the poisoned textbook incident is undoubtedly a typical example, and I hope to increase the review of personnel and film and television works, and resolutely put an end to the situation of entrainment of private goods, after all, there are still many people who are willing to be traitors and forget their ancestors.
3. Strengthen balanced history education. After the broadcast of Japanese film and television works, film and television works promoting patriotism should be added in the later time period, and once again ring the alarm bell for everyone, beware of being imperceptibly influenced.
All in all, there is nothing wrong with the cultural exchange itself, which has aroused the worries of netizens, and it is more based on the righteous indignation of Japan's refusal to admit the history of the massacre. Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future, the haze of poisonous teaching materials has not passed, we must take caution and take strict precautions!
What do you think about CCTV's broadcast of the "Samurai Trilogy"?