Taiwan media: Don't let the "paradise in the army" distort the truth about comfort women

China News Network, 19 Nov (China News Service) Taiwan's "Lianhe Pao" published an article saying that Taiwanese film director Niu Chengze has repeatedly become a news figure recently, and the report also recalled that his recent work "Paradise in the Army" did not have the box office as expected. The analysis said that in the face of the issue of comfort women, which is still debated in the international community, we should not ignore the plot of the film that deviates from historical facts, otherwise how will we face the problem of seeking justice from the Japanese for comfort women?

An excerpt from the article follows:

Chen Changqing was the business undertaker of the Kinmen Defense Department's opening of the Military Paradise, and he once produced a realistic book called "Kinmen Special Tea Room" with his personal experience. After the release of the "Paradise in the Army" movie, he published three articles in succession, questioning the sensational and animated aspects that deviated from historical facts, including the surprising film in which the waiters of the Park in the military actually had female prison inmates who exchanged the commutation of their sentences to serve in the park, and the waiters went out to see a doctor and wore hand buckles and were monitored by the soldiers accompanying them.

Two Japanese literary and historical workers recently made a special trip to Visit him in Kinmen, and during the meeting, they particularly raised the controversy that the Comfort Women of the Japanese Army in World War II were forced or volunteered to say different things in the international community for a long time.

After the release of the "Military Paradise", perhaps as Director Niu said earlier, making a movie is not about history, and the audience may not care whether the content deviates from the historical facts, but if someone thinks of it and the truth about the comfort women of the Japanese army, and the waiters of the military paradise really recruit female prisoners to participate, then in the face of the comfort women issue that is still debated in the international community so far, we should not ignore the plot of the film that deviates from the historical facts, otherwise how will we face the problem of seeking justice from the Japanese for the comfort women?

What is the truth of the matter? The fact that the business undertaker published three questioning articles in succession naturally has its historical basis; moreover, during the period when the financial establishment of the military paradise, the author often went to Kinmen, often saw female waiters waddling on the street, but never saw a situation in which a hand buckle was followed and imprisoned. The director only mentioned the above doubts in the past, and did not put forward specific evidence, and the credibility is of course incomparable.

The author, Chen Changqing and two Japanese friends, who have never known each other, would like to pay tribute here, and appeal to the film audience not to believe that it is true, let alone to be compared with the issue of comfort women. (Ye Genghan)