Not long ago broadcast tv series "Will Night" and "Will Night 2" are sought after by the audience, this carefully crafted fantasy drama not only highly restores the classic scenes in the original work, but also conquers the audience with the beautiful lakes and mountains, magnificent mountains and rivers in the play; gorgeous action scenes, realistic special effects; and the wonderful performances of the actors. However, many viewers will not think that this bloody and inspirational costume, hardcore fantasy drama is from the hands of a seemingly weak female director.
Yang Yang, a national first-class director, her first film was "Chinese Police Flower" starring Hu Huizhong, and the TV series "New Bright Sword" starring Huang Zhizhong was also written by her. In addition, she has also directed the TV series "Heart Technique" starring Zhang Jiayi, Wu Xiubo, Zhai Tianlin, Haiqing, Yang Zi, etc. Today's introduction is a suspenseful anti-war drama "Proof of Memory" directed by her in 2002 with a Douban score of 9.1 points, which tells the true story of a group of Chinese prisoners of war and laborers who were arrested to build a military base on Kurazu Island in Japan at the end of World War II. It stars Duan Yihong, Pei Xiubin, Koji Yano, Li Guangjie, and Miyuki Muto.
Through the Japanese girl Aoyama Sayuri, the drama inadvertently breaks into a courtyard and meets the Chinese youth Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi's grandfather, Xiao Hansheng, recalls 60 years ago, the story that is extremely strange and cruel to today's young people and opens the whole play: one stormy night in 1944, the bottom cabin of a Japanese cargo ship was crowded with captured Kuomintang prisoners of war, the Eighth Route Army, and some ordinary Chinese people. Among the prisoners of war were Zhou Shangwen, the commander of the Kuomintang colonel with the highest rank, Xiao Hansheng, the company commander of the Eighth Route Army, and Xia Mingyuan, who was once an agent...
On the eve of Japan's defeat, many laborers were captured from China and transported to the mainland, including prisoners of war of the Nationalist Army and prisoners of war of the Eighth Route Army, who were inhumanly tortured in Japan and were immediately executed if they escaped. Xiao Hansheng (Pei Xiubin) and Xia Mingyuan (Li Guangjie) know that they are currently building important fortifications, so they secretly tell their subordinates to be passive and idle, looking for an opportunity to escape. At first, the Kuomintang prisoners of war were worried about the problem, but Xiao Hansheng's great righteous responsibility caused all the laborers to germinate a strong national sentiment, and everyone was closely united. In order to prepare for the armed uprising, Xiao Hansheng asks the laborers to secretly prepare explosives during the labor, and tries to find a way to let the Korean laborer Lee Ji-sung (Jia Hongwei) escape the labor camp, instructing him to prepare for the periphery. The director of the labor camp, Okada (Koji Yano), receives an order to kill all the laborers after the fortifications are completed, and Xiao Hansheng feels that the time of life and death has come...
The drama was co-produced by China, Japan and South Korea, in which Xiao Hansheng, who plays the company commander of the Eighth Route Army, is played by South Korean actor Bae So-bin, while Zhou Shangwen, a colonel of the Kuomintang, is played by the famous actor Duan Yihong. There are also six professional actors from Japan who play important roles in the play. "Proof of Memory" uses the expression of modern and past interwoven narratives to carry out two main lines at the same time, one main line is to find the truth of the Japanese army's arrest of labor during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the other main line is based on the theme of this labor camp rebellion story that occurred 60 years ago, exposing the disasters and harms caused by war to mankind, as well as the cruel atrocities of the Japanese army invading China.
The play has shaped the communist party, the Kuomintang, the Japanese soldiers, ordinary people, bandits and other characters, and carried out a meticulous depiction of them and profound human nature excavation, intuitively showing the good and evil and distortion of human nature in the context of war, these characters are vivid and vivid, they do not have the same face of the enemy and us in the previous anti-war dramas, but through the profound analysis of human nature, showing their different psychological behavior changes, the value of this drama also lies in the internationalization of the perspective, the drama analyzes the great impact of war on mankind from an objective point of view, It exposes the evils of Japanese militarism and truly restores the historical facts of the war that cannot be looked back.
The most impressive thing in the play is Zhou Shangwen, played by Duan Yihong, who still maintains the dignity of a soldier after being captured, spotless, standing straight, and his confrontation with Okada is also the biggest attraction in this play, whether it is Zhou Shangwen's gentle way to cooperate with the Japanese army to complete the work, or to save his companions and fight for himself, Zhou Shangwen has always maintained a humble gentleman's demeanor, but he has long put his life and death aside, he said, "Do you think I am afraid of death? It was because of me that my brethren became prisoners of war. I'm going to take them back without falling. In the end, he was seriously ill in exchange for the lives of his companions, and used suicide to maintain his last dignity, undoubtedly poking the audience's tears, heartache, shocking, his national righteousness and responsibility made his opponents admire. Duan Yihong used his solid and excellent acting skills to portray the respectable style of this elegant soldier, and his performance in this play was not inferior to his performance in "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment". Koji Yano filmed the drama with a mentality of atonement, saying that exposing the historical truth and restoring the historical truth is a very important thing for him.
Different from previous works on the theme of anti-Japanese resistance, the biggest feature of the drama is the truth, and this drama has been called "the most documentary-like TV series" by the media. The significance of "Proof of Memory" also lies in the fact that it unveils the surface of the war, conducts a serious critique and reflection on the war, makes the play reflect the historical facts and is higher than the historical facts, and at the same time, the production of the play is well-made, rigorous artistic creation, and realistic scene reproduction not only gives people a strong sense of reality and shock visually, but also makes the audience pay more attention to the rational thinking brought by the plot and resonate with it. It was called one of the most successful anti-war works by the audience.