A "Mulan Joins the Army" made Chen Yunsheng leap from a third-rate star to a pawn in the Chinese world, a proper superstar. But behind the light, there is always a shadow. In 1939, Shanghai was surrounded by the Japanese invading army, and the Japanese invaders, who were good at using cultural control, wantonly produced and screened films beautifying the invasion in the occupied areas.
The Manchurian Film and Painting Association, a society that propagated colonialism
The Xinhua Film Company founded by Zhang Shankun is the best object for the invaders to merge and assimilate, and the production and release of "Mulan From the Army" has the mark of the aggressor's intervention behind it. Zhang Shankun originally looked at this script, in addition to the content of the script is solid enough, the story setting of the protagonist from the military to resist foreign insults is also very convenient for the creative staff to carry out the private goods that have been appealing to the foreign anti-Japanese.
Unfortunately, not everyone has a brain. The film did achieve great success, but on the other hand, a wave of so-called patriots with poop poured into their brains claimed that the film split the feelings of the Han and Mongolian nationalities, depicted the sadness and cowardice of the soldiers who went out on expeditions, insulted national fighters, and was a conspiracy of the Japanese invaders. The brainless masses who accompanied the capital Chongqing even burned the film materials on the street.
The funniest thing is that the "patriotic literati" pulled out the lyrics in the theme song of the movie, indicating that "the sun came out all over the world" And the proper pro-Japanese did not run, and the lyricist Ouyang Yuqian laughed angrily, saying that this is a Hubei nursery rhyme, which has been passed down to the present during the Qing Dynasty. That's not okay either, hypocritical patriots don't accept any explanation. In the end, it was the Chongqing National Government that came forward and suppressed the troublemakers who tried to play by the theme, and the film was successfully released in Chongqing.
Chen Yunsheng became popular in such a controversy, dooming her future film road to undergo various tests. Under the planning of Zhang Shankun, Chen Yunsheng participated in a number of costume films, such as "One Night Queen", "Xiaoxiang Autumn Rain", "Qin Liangyu", etc., all with the theme of defending the family and defending the country, expressing the patriotic feelings of the filmmakers on the isolated island of Shanghai. Chen Yunsheng is a good actor and a good employee, but from the perspective of performing arts, Chen Yunsheng somewhat lacks some exploration of film art. But in the turbulent situation, what about the 20-year-old girl who runs alone on the beach on the isolated island?
The elderly Chen Yunsheng liked the image in "One Night Queen" very much and hung it in a conspicuous place in his home
With the release of more films, Chen Yunsheng's popularity has increased day by day, and he even has his loyal fans abroad. It can be said that Chen Yunsheng worked hard and it was not difficult to enter Hollywood, and the topic that was hyped up at that time was about to come true. Chen Yunsheng suddenly stopped his acting career and announced that he was about to marry a woman.
Fans and various media were shocked by this news and fell several times, Chen Yunsheng is only 24 years old, it is the golden period of the actress's career, seeing that it is about to embark on the peak of her career, how can she be willing to stop filming from now on, only for one person to wash their hands and make soup. After many inquiries, everyone learned that Chen Yunsheng's fiancé was a medical doctor who was the president of Shanghai Zhongbi Leiding Hospital, named Tang Yuhan. This identity background, for female stars, is really a good home.
Zhang Shankun, who was popular with Chen Yunsheng in one hand, hoped that before his marriage, he could play Jia Baoyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" as Chen Yunsheng's sealing work. Zhang Shankun, who is good at hype, originally planned to put the release time of the film on the day of Chen Yunsheng's big wedding and stir up a wave of emotional routes, but Chen Yunsheng refused. Many people say that Zhang Shankun was a rogue gangster who defected to the Golden Rong Mixed Green Gang in his early years, but judging from his attitude toward Chen Yunsheng, he was affectionate and righteous, not strong, and not a good gentleman, but he was not a bad person after all.
Zhang Shankun
Chen Yunsheng suddenly retreated, and her official words to the outside world were: My mother warned me that no matter how red a woman is, she should get married when she should get married, and when she is married, she must stand behind her husband, always be her husband first, and herself second, even if you are a glorious star. This statement may cause extreme discomfort to pseudo-feminism, but in An An's view, the real feminism is that women can freely choose their preferred lifestyle. Marrying a woman and returning to the family does not mean the loss of women's rights. The fact that a single person enjoys life does not show the strength of a woman. What matters is whether you can manage your heart on the path you choose and eventually blossom into a happy flower. The end of Chen Yunsheng and Tang Yuhan's life together is a portrayal of free feminism: independently choose what you want to live, and then use your life to maintain and enjoy.
And Zhang Shankun, who has high hopes for Chen Yunsheng, is also helpless to acquiesce to the crazy actions of his female stars. It is said that Zhang Shankun's younger brother Zhang Shanmin was a not very decent second ancestor, coveting Chen Yunsheng's beauty, using his position to harass Chen Yunsheng in various ways, and also trying to force the other party to read the luminous script with him. Zhang Shankun almost broke his brother's dog leg when he learned of this, but as long as Chen Yunsheng stayed in the show business circle, it was inevitable.
Another important reason is related to the political environment at that time. In 1943, before Chen Yunsheng retired, he starred in the film "Wanshi Liufang", which tells the story of Lin Zexu's anti-smoking and anti-British resistance, and like Zhang Shankun's usual routine, the film borrows the story of Lin Zexu's resistance to foreign insults, metaphorically referring to the patriotic feelings of the people. This film was made with the participation of Japan's full film, to say that the Japanese aggressors are also easy to fool, they think that this is a film against British aggression, help to provoke the people's hatred of Britain and the United States, but they do not want to think, at that time, Chinese only hate the Japanese invaders, all the subjects related to aggression, will be automatically labeled by the people as Japanese invaders.
Of course, the Japanese invaders are full of confidence in the production of this film, and there are also roots, because there are always a handful of self-righteous narrow patriots, which are the same as the brain circuits of the invaders. A small number of brainless fans heard that the film had traces of Japanese participation, and they were very unhappy, and they accused Chen Yun of being a traitor to the public enemy and a traitor, and in the face of brainless spraying, they could not speak clearly with their mouths.
What was even more depressing was that the Japanese invaders also added firewood and fan wind at this time, and a certain Japanese naval officer forcibly abducted Chen Yunsheng and posed for a set of photos of Chen Yunsheng offering flowers to the Japanese warship. Under the internal and external attacks, the actress Li Xianglan, who co-starred in "Wanshi Liufang", blocked a lot of open guns and dark arrows for Chen Yunsheng, protecting Chen Yunsheng for a while. Regarding Li Xianglan, the Japanese female star of the Chinese-speaking circle, we will talk in detail in the future content.
Li Xianglan
Confined to the delicate political situation, Chen Yunsheng resolutely retired to marry, which seems today to be a wise move. When there is a fan base, you can retreat from the political whirlpool, so as to maintain your reputation and not end up in a discredited situation. At the end of 1944, Zhang Shankun, who led the filming of the patriotic film "Wen Tianxiang", was arrested by the Japanese side, and it can be said that the reflection arc of the Japanese invaders was long enough, and the Shanghai film circle has borrowed ancient irony under the eyes of the Japanese invaders for many years to maintain the enthusiasm of national unity.
After Zhang Shankun was arrested, Kawakita Nagamasa, who was stationed in Shanghai by Japan in charge of film and television cultural work, mediated everywhere and exchanged his own life as a guarantee for Zhang Shankun's release. In 1945, Zhang Shankun and his wife Tong Yuejuan secretly left Shanghai and embarked on the road of escape. Objectively speaking, what Zhang Shankun did in the Shanghai film industry retained the living power of the Chinese film industry and prevented the Chinese film from completely falling under the control of the invaders. However, in the midst of the chaotic world, there are many bastard kings who preach black and white, Chinese hate Zhang Shankun for cooperating with the invaders, and the Japanese invaders resent Zhang Shankun for carrying patriotic feelings in the movie, but they have fallen into an embarrassing situation where they are not human inside and outside.
According to the memoirs of Zhang Shankun's wife, Tong Yuejuan, when Shanghai was reduced to an isolated island, a large number of Chinese film tycoons evacuated Shanghai Beach, and the remaining part of the people were also depressed all day long, burying their heads in the filming of the wind and moon theme to escape reality. In order to advocate the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, the Japanese aggressors tried to use culture to suppress the people and forced 12 film companies of "Guohua", "Yihua", "Jinxing", "United", "Chunming", and Zhang Shankun's "Xinhua", "Huacheng" and "Huaxin" to merge into the "China United Production Company" (Zoomlion) to fight for the aggressors.
At first, Zhang Shankun strongly opposed and refused the invitation of the Japanese invaders, but the Chongqing side, through the Kuomintang underground worker Jiang Bocheng, sent a message to Zhang Shankun, hoping that he would use the pretext of cooperating with the invaders to preserve the national autonomy of Shanghai films. Coupled with the Japanese invaders sent to Shanghai to take charge of film culture work, Kawaki Tadashi Nagamasa, a Japanese with international nationalist feelings, he won Zhang Shankun a great deal of free decision-making power, Zhang Shankun later recalled that under the circumstances at that time, if they chose to refuse, there would be others willing to replace themselves, at that time, Chinese films will be completely reduced to the aggressor's cultural sanctions tool.
It was in this situation that Zhang Shankun formed a chaotic brotherhood with Kawakita Nagamasa. Kawaki Takamasa's father was a broad-minded Japanese, who served in the military academy during the Qing government and trained many excellent generals for China, but this move was resented by Japanese extremists, and secretly assassinated Kawaki Dojiro (the father of Kawaki Tada Nagamasa), Kawakita Nagamasa grew up under his father's legacy, and eventually went to the land for which his father fought, with a child's heart, continuing his father's great international nationalist feelings.
Left Mikawa Kita Nagamasa
After Kawakita Nagamasa took charge of the Shanghai film industry, he ignored the shameless orders issued by the Japanese invaders to him, but gave the Shanghai filmmakers the greatest degree of creative freedom, he acquiesced to Zhang Shankun's leadership in filming a series of films that encouraged national unity and resistance to Japan, under the high pressure of the Japanese invaders, resisted the pressure of Wan Jun, and in line with the principle of < love their country and >, they left a sincere international feeling in the chaotic world.
Chuanki Takahata not only supports Chinese maintain the sense of national independence in the film, but also helps the oppressed people in all aspects, during World War II, a large number of persecuted Jews in Europe fled to the Shanghai Concession for refuge, and under the joint efforts of Kawaki Takashi and many Chinese businessmen, they helped thousands of Jews, this is a tragic song of the chaotic world, An An hopes that in the future days, these stories will be turned out one by one and told to everyone.
After Zhang Shankun and his wife escaped to Hong Kong after nine deaths, they did not change their original intentions and founded the Great Wall Film Company in Hong Kong. After the liberation, Chen Yunsheng and her husband also moved to Hong Kong, in order to repay Zhang Shankun's kindness, Chen Yunsheng took the stage with Bai Guang and other top ten Chinese female stars such as Bai Guang on the day of the release of the Great Wall Company's pioneering work "Slut's Heart". In 1951, Chen Yunsheng, who had been in the film for eight years, made a brief comeback and starred in two films produced by Zhang Shankun, "Moon Bending and Bending to Illuminate Kyushu" and "Ren Haiqi Woman". For more than 60 years after that, Chen Yunsheng rarely appeared, living in a hilltop villa with her husband in Shi'ao.
In 1997, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Yunsheng jointly donated funds to establish the School of Medicine of Ningbo University and the Tang Yuhan Research Center. In order to create momentum, Chen Yunsheng was invited to serve as a judge of the Miss Hong Kong Contest that year, and the third runner-up of that Year's Hong Kong Sister was the Hong Kong star She Shiman, who is now half red and not red.
In 2014, her husband Tang Yuhan died, and two years later, on the evening of June 29, 2016, Chen Yunsheng died in peace at the age of 97. Perhaps at some point in the future, due to some hot event, Chen Yunsheng will once again appear in various media reports as the heroine of chicken soup, but An An hopes that until then, with this kind of documentary description, the unused text will be preserved.