The domestic movie "Yaobai" announced that it will be released in Japan this autumn and released a Japanese version of the trailer. This film is a war of resistance against Japanese aggression, and as the name suggests, it is about how Chinese soldiers fought heroically against the Japanese Kou and was a judgment on the history of Japan's invasion of China. Therefore, as soon as the news came out, many people were shocked that an anti-Japanese film could actually be screened in Japan? I don't know what Japanese people think when they see it.
As soon as "Eight Hundred" was released in China, it achieved unprecedented response. As we all know, this film is based on real events, telling the story of "eight hundred heroes" who were ordered to stick to the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai and stubbornly resisted under the siege of the Japanese army. The fierce and tragic war scenes in the film have created one after another legendary heroes with flesh and blood who are not afraid of sacrifice for the great righteousness of the nation.
"Eight Hundred" is not only the domestic box office champion in 2020, but also achieved great results in other countries, with a cumulative box office of 461 million US dollars worldwide. If it can be released in Japan, it will also be a good cultural export.
However, it should be noted that Japan has always been reluctant to admit the history of aggression against China, and Japanese government officials have even visited the Yasukuni Shrine many times, and even downplayed the aggressive nature of the war waged against China in propaganda. It is reported that under the supervision of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, their textbooks were required to ignore and cover up the barbaric crimes of the Japanese army. Moreover, most of the war-themed films in Japan, although they express historical reflection and anti-war ideas, most of them still portray themselves as a "victim". It's like if you go and hit someone, but you hit an iron plate, and after you are injured, you feel that you are a victim, which is nonsense. Even under the brainwashing of the Japanese government, many Japanese people after the war always had the absurd idea of "Japan leading Asia against the West" in their hearts.
From this point of view, whether "Yaobai" can eventually be successfully released in Japan is still a question. It is not excluded that the Japanese right-wing forces will obstruct and slander this film in every way and question its "authenticity"; or the Japanese side may delete the content of the film, thus causing misreading; in addition, will the plot of the soldiers shooting Japanese prisoners of war in the warehouse in the film be over-interpreted? All this is still unknown. However, if the film can be released in Tokyo as scheduled, at least there is a chance to put the cruelty and barbarism of the war of aggression against China in front of the eyes of the young Japanese people, so that they know that the criminal acts of their ancestors have been undoubtedly a slap in the face to the right-wing forces in china.
Unfortunately, in the Japanese pilot propaganda film, the war of aggression against China was changed to "Sino-Japanese War", so its meaning is completely different! It can be seen that the Japanese still have not faced history squarely and are still blurring the nature of war. Chinese netizens have also mocked: it's like a joke, can they understand it?
The historical truth is indisputable, and the attitude of a country and a nation toward history also determines its position and future direction, which is also what Chinese often say: take history as a mirror. Today, Japan blatantly distorts the facts, which is simply shameless.
In any case, I hope that while the film goes abroad, it can bring the historical truth to the world; I hope that one day in the future, all Japanese people will know that it is a war of aggression launched by Japan, not just a "Sino-Japanese war"!