At the end of 1945, Li Xianglan, who was under house arrest, eagerly awaited a package from Beiping.
The female singer who became popular on the beach because of the song "Night Fragrance", at this time washed away the lead, detained in a detention center in Hongkou, outside the window can see pedestrians celebrating the victory of the War of Resistance, but she is terrified, heard the sound of cars are frightened to hide in the corner, thinking that it is the military police from the execution ground.
Just a few months ago, on August 15, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and the arduous War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally came to an end, and with the victory of the War of Resistance, in Shanghai, the traitors who participated in the filming of Japanese films during the Japanese occupation period began to gradually be summoned and investigated by the authorities, and Li Xianglan was arrested at the end of August together with the Japanese employees of the "China Film Company" for participating in the "Mainland Trilogy" and other pseudo-Manchurian propaganda films, and the charges against her were "traitors", and the newspapers at that time also published the date of her execution.
The streets of Shanghai after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
In fact, Li Xianglan was also charged with "espionage" before, but with the deepening of the investigation, it was found out that she had not participated in political activities in her acting career, so the "espionage crime" was revoked. Near the end of the year, her childhood friend, the White Russian girl Liuba visited her, and also brought a new news: Liuba would go to Beiping to find Li Xianglan's parents to get an important document, as long as this document can be found, Li Xianglan can be exempted from the "crime of traitor".
In early 1946, Li Xianglan received a wooden box that opened as a childhood Japanese doll with one thing hidden in her belt: it turned out to be a copy of the household registration of "Shuko Yamaguchi".
Li Xianglan (left) and Chen Yunsheng
Looking at "Shuko Yamaguchi", her long-lost original Japanese name, Li Xianglan, who was imprisoned, could not help but have mixed feelings, and it was not long before the military trial, although the public was still angry at her participation in the film that flattered the Japanese, but in view of her proven Japanese identity, the military court finally acquitted her and was released back to China.
In the face of an uproar in the audience during the trial, Li Xianglan could only bow and apologize with tears in her eyes, and with tears in her eyes, in March 1946, she boarded the "Yunxian Maru" that had been evacuated and returned to China, leaving China to return to Japan, and the sound whistle of the steamship also separated the two worlds, one was the "Traitor" star who was spit on by the masses in the first half of her life, Li Xianglan, whose real name was Shuko Yamaguchi, and on the other side was the "Japanese traitor" politician Ōying Shuko, who had been atonement for her sins in the second half of her life and was insulted by Japanese right-wingers.
When we look back at her tortuous life, from Shuko Yamaguchi to Li Xianglan to Shuko The Great Eagle, the 3 names reflect her 3 life.
And through the 3 sincere confessions left by Li Xianglan in different periods, we can glimpse the real life of this night incense from the fog of history: she is not just a "traitor star" rumored on the Internet, although the first half of her life was torn into the dirt of war, but the second half of her life was reborn from the muddy struggle.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "I will stand on the wall of Peiping and die under the shells of China and Japan."</h1>
In 1934, the iron hooves of the Japanese army invading China were crossing the Great Wall, coming towards Beiping, the chinese nation's enthusiastic young people have thrown themselves into the War of Resistance, the former quiet City of Beiping has been on the verge of war, at this time Li Xianglan was 14 years old, arranged by his father to join Pan Yugui, with the scientific name "Pan Shuhua" into the Yijiao Girls' High School in Beiping.
Shuko Yamaguchi of Girls' Generation
Her real name "Shuko Yamaguchi" is strictly kept secret, and no one in the great school knows her Japanese identity, and everyone does not know that this "Pan Shuhua" is the famous girl singer Li Xianglan in Fengtian.
For Li Xianglan, the spreading flames of war took away her peaceful campus life, and in the face of the indignant anti-war atmosphere at that time, she felt more and more cramped and uneasy, and at a political seminar, everyone discussed what to do if the Japanese invaded and crossed the Beiping City Wall. Everyone shouted to fight the Japanese army to the death, but Li Xianglan kept his head down.
Finally it was her turn to take a stand, Li Xianglan thought for half a day, and finally gave an answer that was different from everyone else: I would stand on the walls of Beijing and die under the shells of China and Japan.
Why did Li Xianglan say this? That's because in her body, the original family and growth experience have long planted two completely different selves: one is the Japanese girl Shuko Yamaguchi, and the other is the Chinese singer Li Xianglan, facing the crisis of the times, her personal fate is doomed to be unable to escape, nor can she break free.
Why did Shuko Yamaguchi become Chinese star Li Xianglan? It all started with her father.
Born in February 1920 in Shenyang, northeast China, Shuko Yamaguchi was a senior employee of the Mantetsu Company at that time, the Mantetsu Company, the "East India Company" in northeast China, was the core institution of the Japanese invasion of the three eastern provinces, and it can be said that Shuko Yamaguchi was born into a thoroughly colonial family.
Unexpectedly, Yamaguchi Fumio is an authentic "pro-Chinese school", his ancestors are sinologists from the Saga Domain in modern Japan, and the family has inherited Chinese culture for generations, such as Yamaguchi Fumio's father, Yamaguchi Hiroshi, who loves sinology and admires Chinese culture.
Shuko Yamaguchi and father Fumio Yamaguchi
After Yamaguchi Arrived in China, he witnessed the crimes of the Japanese army, was dissatisfied with the invasion of Mantetsu at that time, and began to sympathize with the suffering of Chinese civilians, and had close contact with the Chinese in peacetime. In 1932, after the Fushun Japanese army created the bloody "Pingdingshan Massacre" in retaliation for the resistance of the residents of Pingdingshan, Yamaguchi Fumio was forced to accept the investigation of the Japanese gendarmes because he was suspected of "collaborating with the enemy" and was finally dismissed from his post.
At this time, Shuko Yamaguchi was just a teenager in the cardamom years, she inherited the love of Chinese culture from her original family, and she also learned a fluent Beijing dialect.
The carriage of fate was also opened for this Japanese girl, Who had lost her job, and took the family to live in Fengtian to live, living in the home of the Shandong warlord Li Jichun, who was dressed in red Chinese clothes and was recognized by Li Jichun as a righteous daughter on the spot, named Li Xianglan.
Since then, this Japanese girl, who is almost exactly the same as Chinese in terms of language and appearance, has been changed by this Chinese name for a lifetime.
And if in a person's life, the luckiest thing is to find out what she loves and is good at, Li Xianglan is undoubtedly a lucky person, she quickly discovered the talent that makes her different: singing.
At the suggestion of her friend Liuba, she studied under a famous teacher, worshiped under the Russian soprano Madame Podolesov, and then stood out, in 1933, she was photographed by Fengtian Radio station at the teacher's recital, and the station's planning section chief personally visited and invited her to sing on the radio station, wanting to praise her as a singer.
Li Xianglan and Liu Ba took a group photo many years later
The simple Li Xianglan did not think so much, but his father saw the hint that this seemingly generous gift had actually been secretly marked with a price: after the establishment of the original puppet state of Manchukuo, in order to promote the so-called "Japanese-Manchurian goodwill", Fengtian Radio urgently needed to package a Chinese girl singer who knew both Chinese and Japanese, so as to beautify Japanese rule and dissolve the Fighting Spirit of the Chinese Nation.
Unfortunately, although Yamaguchi Fumio at first resolutely opposed his daughter being packaged as a Chinese girl, but he could not hide from the first fifteen, and then the Manying giant, Mantetsu Co., Ltd. member Masahiko Gan, personally came to the door to "invite", in the face of the life of an old and small family, Yamaguchi Fumio did not dare to refuse such an "invitation", so Li Xianglan entered the Fengtian Radio Station, recorded more than a dozen carefully selected "Manchurian new songs", and thus began his career as a singer.
But singing these propaganda political songs, the young Li Xianglan soon got tired, she instinctively thought of fleeing, and in 1934, with the help of her father, she finally stepped on the train leaving Fengtian to Beijing in the name of "going to school", and the life drama began here.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Japanese superiority and inequality over other peoples in Asia ... What a repulsive nation</h1>."
In 1938, Li Xianglan, who had become a star, was arranged by the film company to visit Japan, and as a result, she was humiliated by the country, which deeply affected Li Xianglan, and she still remembered it in her later years.
That visit was the first time in Li Xianglan's life that she returned to China, that day she was dressed in a cheongsam as before, and when she passed through the Japanese customs, the police officer in charge of "re-entering the country" saw that she was holding a Japanese passport, specially called Li Xianglan out, and reprimanded her severely.
Li Xianglan, who was reprimanded, was very confused at first, thinking that she had not done anything wrong, and then she understood: it turned out that the police officer thought that she was a "superior" Japanese national, but she stepped on Japanese soil wearing "inferior" Chinese clothes, which was an insult! He ordered Li Xianglan to change into Japanese clothes immediately, and finally the staff of Manying came to explain in detail that Li Xianglan was a "goodwill" actor in China, and finally he was able to enter the customs.
Poster of Li Xianglan visiting Japan
In his later years, in the book "The Puppet Li Xianglan of Manying", Li Xianglan indignantly confessed: "How explicit is the Japanese people's sense of superiority and inequality towards other ethnic groups in Asia! What a repulsive nation. "
Why would Li Xianglan, who was originally Japanese, be full of hatred for her motherland and nation? The reason is hidden in the star journey of her "Chinese star".
Full of public events
In 1934, Li Xianglan entered Beiping from Fengtian to study, and in the first few years of her arrival in Beiping, although she temporarily got rid of the control of the Japanese propaganda organs, how could the Japanese in puppet Manchukuo easily forget this nightingale-like singing voice? Her star path was quietly put on the agenda by the conspirators.
Soon, the "Manchurian Film and Painting Association" came to the door through Kawashima Yoshiko's lover, Yama Jiaheng, and told Li Xianglan that a musical film was being prepared, and the actress who invited her to be the backing singer did not need to appear on camera. In 1937, the puppet state of Manchukuo adopted the so-called "National Policy of Cinema", and under this call, "Manying" concocted a series of propaganda films advocating "the promised land of the king" and "common prosperity in East Asia".
In fact, Shan Jiaheng's finding of Li Xianglan is not as simple as just finding a vocal actor, they are looking for a best actress in their minds.
Because she and Shan Jiaheng had known each other before, Li Xianglan agreed to serve as a backstage vocalist, and in the winter of 1937, she returned to Changchun, northeast China, from Beiping, and exclaimed that she had been deceived when she arrived at the shooting scene, "Man Ying" wanted Li Xianglan to play the real heroine! In this way, Li Xianglan shot her screen debut "Honeymoon Train", she was talented and intelligent, under the instructions of the director, the film was quickly filmed and released, and Li Xianglan has since become the number one actress who is "full of pictures".
In the face of the chess game laid out by fate, Li Xianglan at this time did not resist: shining magnesium lights, flowers and applause, fame and glitz are like opium, young girls are easy to immerse themselves in, Li Xianglan is not exempt from vulgarity, she has lived a star life that is highly anticipated, enjoying the support and admiration at her fingertips.
Li Xianglan stills
Entering the fast lane of her life, she then filmed promotional films such as "The Song of Brandland", and even partnered with a famous actor in Japan at the time, Kazuo Hasegawa, a big star of the "Toho" film company, which became a sensation after the release of puppet Manchukuo, and Li Xianglan gained unprecedented fame.
However, in the face of the Chinese who saved the country, they voted for Li Xianglan more than a name, and the films she shot were all authentic colonialist films, and they also portrayed obedient women who had a good feeling for Japan's invasion of China and were willing to be slaves to the country. Compared with her, The Chinese actresses of the same period, from Hu Die to Li Lili, from Zhou Xuan to Chen Yanyan, all actively participated in the film to save the country, even under the fire of the Japanese army, they still did not give up shooting patriotic films and inspired the anti-war soldiers in the front.
Li Xianglan's "Continental Trilogy"
In Li Xianglan's works during the "Full Ying" period, the "Mainland Trilogy" represented by "The Song of Bailan" and "The Oath of Resha" was especially spurned by the patriots at that time.
For example, in "The Song of Bailan", the Chinese woman Guilan played by Li Xianglan, her parents died, her home was destroyed, once she was harassed by hooligans, she happened to meet the Japanese boatman Tetsuo Hasaya, and inevitably fell in love with him after being rescued. One day, Tetsuo Haseya was ambushed by the Chinese army and disappeared, Guilan was heartbroken, in a scene in the movie, Tetsuo Haseya slapped her in the face at the grumpy Guilan, yelling how long you are going to be stubborn!
This slap from the Japanese not only hit the actor Li Xianglan in the face, but also hit all the Chinese audiences watching the movie, because at this time Li Xianglan was packaged by the film company as a "Chinese actress", they deliberately fabricated her identity as a Chinese, and touted her as a spokesperson for the promotion of "Full Japanese Goodwill", "Man Ying" introduced Li Xianglan's caliber at that time was "born into a famous family, her father was the mayor of Fengtian, and she could speak fluent Japanese as a Chinese beauty", under this offensive, everyone thought that Li Xianglan was a Chinese.
And along with the humiliation of her visit to Japan in 1938, the Japanese police's drinking and rebuke was like a basin of cold water, pouring out Li Xianglan's dream of becoming a star, and she saw that the contradictions between China and Japan were already in the same situation, and where she was a "good star," she was just a puppet who whitewashed the war of aggression in the hands of "Man Ying."
At the same time, in China, in the face of the crisis moment of the Chinese nation, the public's denunciation of Li Xianglan's "traitor" was also noisy, and in the face of the surging controversy, Li Xianglan fell into inner struggle and pain, and began to be extremely disgusted with the false propaganda that she was Chinese, and also felt deeply uneasy about her concealing her nationality from Chinese.
At this moment, a letter from a fan from Tokyo touched the confused Li Xianglan, the letter wrote: "The value of human beings is not reflected in sensationalism or becoming famous, if you can not stand firm, the result will only be at the mercy of the times." "
Therefore, Li Xianglan urgently asked to explain the truth of her identity to Chinese, and at a press conference in Beijing in 1939, she strongly proposed to Secretary Li of the Beijing Press Club that she wanted to take this opportunity to declare that she was Japanese, but she was opposed on the spot by the staff of Manying, who ordered Li Xianglan: "Absolutely disapprove, you must Chinese!" "
Toward the end of the press conference, a young reporter shouted, "Miss Li Xianglan! Are you Chinese? Why did you make that kind of slanderous film, where did your pride as a Chinese go, and want to know what you really think! "
Li Xianglan was speechless and could only apologize to reporters one after another.
Group photo with Zhang Ailing during his time in Shanghai
Instead of blindly clinging to it, it is better to give up wisely, the day after the press conference, Li Xianglan formally submitted her resignation to Man Ying, and has never filmed a "Man Ying" propaganda film since then, in 1944, for singing the famous song "Night Coming Fragrant" created by Li Jinguang, she became popular on the beach and became the "Seven Singers of Shanghai Beach" with Zhou Xuan, Bai Guang, Yao Li and so on, until 1945, when Japan was defeated, she was arrested for participating in the pseudo-Manchukuo "Mainland Trilogy" and other traitor films.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "This day is the best day of my life, my motherland and my home country, finally shaking hands and making peace."</h1>
Time flies, in 1972, in the live broadcast of Fuji Television in Tokyo, Japan, when Premier Zhou Enlai and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka hugged each other, a female host turned her back to the camera and burst into tears.
She cried uncontrollably and said: "This day is the best day of my life, my motherland and mother country, finally shaking hands and making peace." "
The hostess is called Shuko Ōtaka, and although she has changed her husband's surname again, she is None other than Lady Yamaguchi Li Xianglan after returning to Japan.
Li Xianglan filmed in Hong Kong
In 1946, after returning to Japan, Li Xianglan reverted to her real name Shuko Yamaguchi, once still filming and singing for a living, and even went to Hong Kong and Hollywood to develop, and also experienced a 5-year failed marriage, and at the time of her depression, she met Hiroshi Oita, then a Japanese diplomat to the United Nations, while touring the drama "Shangri-La" in New York, and accepted his marriage proposal in 1958.
Since then, the movie star Shuko Yamaguchi has gradually disappeared, and the politician Ōying Shuko, who has been running for peace between China and Japan all her life, has stepped onto the stage of history.
After her marriage, she accompanied her husband to visit countries around the world, saw the wider world, and also experienced more civilian sufferings, and after returning to China, she was invited by Fuji Television to host the news program "Three O'Clock You", and in 1970 she went to the Middle East to interview Arafat, and also went to The Palestine refugee camp to interview refugees.
Lady Eagle visits the camp
But what she misses more than the Middle East is still a China with water in her heart, and she once said sadly: "Chinese don't know that I am Japanese, I have deceived Chinese, and a sense of guilt haunts my heart." "
As the saying goes, maybe people will not change, they will only become more and more like themselves, they have been involuntarily in the war, and they have witnessed the great eagle lady behind the politics, when she broke free from the cage of the war, she has always been obsessed with Chinese culture, remembered the kindness of the Chinese people, and rushed to the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship.
In the eyes of Lady Ōtaka, although Japan is the motherland, But China is the mother country, when she was humiliated at the Japanese customs, she once asked herself: "If Japan is defeated in China one day, will Chinese treat the Japanese like the Japanese treat Chinese?" When personal experience gave the answer, the second half of her life ran through her disgust with Japanese aggression and atonement for the Chinese people, and promoted a lot of Sino-Japanese friendship work.
It was at this time that The political ideas of Shuko Ohtaka also caught the attention of the Liberal Democratic Party's Tanaka faction, and in July 1974, she was invited to run for the Senate, and before her, there had never been an actress running for parliament in Japan.
And the process of the campaign is also a twist and turn, although the big eagle Lady is running in the front line of propaganda, but the day near the end, her votes are still behind expectations, when she heard about it, she turned around and walked into the subway car without saying a word, to the passenger voters in the subway to do publicity.
After a few days of hard work, she was finally elected by a slight margin! When Kakuei Tanaka heard the news, he couldn't help but punch her in the shoulder with excitement: "Well done!" "
In the following 18 years, Ōtaka Shuko was re-elected to the Senate for 3 consecutive terms, and from beginning to end, her political actions have been actively promoting the foreign affairs committee's friendship with China, and even triggered accusations in the Japanese Diet that opponents were "traitors" to her, but these controversial voices, for the stormy Andying Shuko, were only like a breeze, and did not shake her determination in the slightest.
Big Eagle Lady visits Changchun Movies
In 1975, bidding farewell to China's nearly 30 years of Great Eagle Shuzi, he followed the LDP parliamentary group to visit North Korea, stopped briefly in Beijing on the way, and on the same day Sun Huaping of the China-Japan Friendship Association came to visit, and the two talked freely late at night.
In 1978, Lady Daying finally made a smooth trip, leading the Japanese environmental delegation to visit China, and when the group visited the Changchun Film Studio, the former site of "Manying", she said with great emotion: "I have two motherlands, China and Japan, so when I go to China, I should say 'back' to China." "
At this time, the Great Eagle Lady, the former Yamaguchi Shuko and Li Xianglan, how many stories have passed away with the smoke clouds of time, and at the moment of revisiting the old place, how much she hopes to make up for the mistakes of the first half of her life with the atonement of the second half of her life.
In 1992, he revisited the old house in Beijing
What is even more rare and valuable is that after retiring from the political arena, Lady Ohying is still on the front line of exposing the crimes of war and promoting Sino-Japanese friendship, and she has long served as the vice chairman of the "Asian Women's Foundation" to urge the Japanese government to publicly apologize and compensate the comfort women who served in the army.
In 2005, when then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi brazenly announced his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, the 85-year-old Ōying Shuko, despite the right-wingers' repeated attack on her as a "Japanese traitor," published the last long article of his life in the press, exhorting Koizumi not to visit the shrine because it would "deeply hurt the hearts of Chinese."
In her later years, she was interviewed by Lady Eagle
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At 10:42 a.m. on September 7, 2014, Lady Oying died in Tokyo at the age of 94, and she quietly left, just as the famous song "Night Comes" that remains in the world sings: the south wind blows cool, the nightingales cry in unison, the flowers under the moon have fallen asleep, and only the night incense is fragrant and perfumed.
Throughout her life, when the storm came, Li Xianglan in the first half of her life was torn between the fates of the two countries, and she also went with the flow, strictly speaking, she had an unshirkable responsibility for invading China, but her valuable point is that the big eagle Lady in the second half of her life turned the second half of her life into atonement and repentance for her mistakes.
Li Xianglan, who has passed away, will naturally be commented on by future generations, and in the face of a controversial life, she once summed herself up in her autobiography: "A person who has been fooled by the times and by a vain policy, if he wakes up from a nightmare, he can have the opportunity to reflect on the behavior at that time, and he is also happy." "
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