Mothers killing their own sons with their own hands is rare in the world, but it is by no means absent.
The Japanese film "Human Witness", which caused a sensation in China in the 1980s and became popular with the episode "Straw Hat Song", tells such a heavy story.
Many viewers who have lived through that era must still remember this film vividly.
Nowadays, whenever the melody of "Straw Hat Song" sounds, the scene of the movie "Witness" still comes to mind.
Film shows: In the elevator of the luxurious Royal Hotel in Tokyo, a young black American is suddenly stabbed to death, and the deceased is called Jonny, who came to Japan from the United States to find his biological mother.
Who killed Jonny? Who is his mother?
After a series of police detective efforts. The truth has finally come out.
It turned out that the person who killed Jonny was the mother he had been looking for and had found---- The Japanese costume designer and the wife of the parliamentarian Kyoko Yasugi.
The plot of the film is explained: Jonny's black father, Wilshire, served in the military in Japan after world war II. At that time, Kyoko Yasugi lived with Welshya in order to earn a living, and gave birth to a mixed-race son, Jonny.
Later, Wilsia returned to the United States with her children. Many years later, my son Wanli came to Tokyo looking for his mother. In order to protect her honor and position, and to preserve the future of her son Kyohei, who was later born to her husband, a member of the Councilor, kyoko Yasugi, she ruthlessly assassinated Jonny.
At this time, Kyohei, the prodigal son of Kyoko Yasugi, fled to the United States for a crime and was eventually killed by the police. Velsha also died of poverty in the slums.
When Kyoko Yasugi was winning the grand prize at the annual costume design awards ceremony, the police rushed to the venue to announce her arrest.
Seeing that both of her sons are dead, Kyoko Yasugi is unable to restrain her inner pain and complicated emotions and comes to the cliff to commit suicide.
This film is very depressing to watch from beginning to end. The film allows Chinese audiences to see the after-effects of Japan's post-war period and the current situation of Japanese society at that time.
After the defeat of Japan, the city and countryside were in ruins, and people starved. Many young women make a living by selling their bodies to the American occupying forces. Kyoko Yasugi, the heroine of the film, has to sell newspapers on the street for a living after the black soldiers take away their children. Gang-raped on the street by a group of American soldiers. A Japanese man came to stop him, but was knocked to the ground by the American soldiers and peed on him...
Thirty years later, Wilsia, a black man who lives without a living in the United States, does not hesitate to "touch porcelain" with a car in order to raise money for his son to travel to Japan to find his mother. Jonny, who got the money raised by his father and went to Japan and found his mother, got a ruthless knife to beware of inserting.
In the film, it can be seen that when the son happily embraces the birth mother, Kyoko Yasugi stabs a knife into the abdomen of her son Jonny Hayward.
The heartbroken son stabbed his mother not deeply, and then stabbed himself deeply into his abdomen.
The son saw in his eyes the tower of the hotel in the distance and the light below forming a huge light straw hat, and he chanted the straw hat and walked toward the light, forever towards the ethereal sky.
All the "witnesses" who can prove how this all happened are dead. Although the pursuing police struggled to find out the truth, they could only watch the straw hat that Jonny used to recognize him fly into the sky.
The mother killed the previous illegitimate child for the sake of her immediate vanity and the honorary status of her later child... This theme is too harsh.
When Kyoko Yasugi throws her straw hat into the valley in the film, the audience is shocked as the tear-jerking "Straw Hat Song" sounds, and as Kyoko Yasugi reminisces about everything that happened with her son Joni.
The movie interlude "Straw Hat Song" was deeply remembered by the audience.
The film stars Jasmine Okada, a famous Japanese actress who was born in Tokyo in 1933 to a film actress of the silent film era and a dancer to a dancer.
Influenced and influenced by her family since childhood, Okada has loved literature and performing arts since childhood.
In 1954, she came to prominence by starring in the classic Japanese business card "Floating Clouds", and then starred in many business cards such as "Late Spring" and "Tokyo Story" by film master Yasujiro Ozu. In 1977, he was widely known to Chinese audiences for his role as a mother in "Witness".
In 1987, Jasmine Okada disappeared for some reason. Since 2002, she has been active in the Japanese film industry again, continuing to work on the performing arts of the films she loves and loves. In 2019, he received the President's Merit Award at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Awards.
In the film, Kyoko Yasugi hears the news of her son's death and is confused and incoherent at the award-winning ceremony.
This wonderful performance and line is unforgettable:
Kyoko Yasugi: My son is dead. He is my heart and liver, and I live for him.
··· He was the only one, and I did everything to love this child, because I loved him.
I read him a poem before:
"Mom, Mom, it was that summer, on the way to Kerizmi, that my straw hat, not knowing what it was, fell into the abyss. Remember, Mom? ”
I've lost one straw hat now, so I'm left with another straw hat and don't want to lose it anymore.
"Mom, how much I love that straw hat." But a gust of wind blew away my straw hat, and I regretted it so much.
··· ···
Kyoko Yasugi came to the top of the mountain. She threw the straw hat down the hill, and the straw hat swirled up and down with the air current, floating, and gradually drifted away. Kyoko Yasugi, who was full of gray thoughts, finally chose to jump off the cliff in front of her conscience and the law.
In the film, Kyoko Yasugi's black son, Jonny Hayward, is played by Joe Yamanaka. Born in September 1946 in Yokohama, Japan. His background is basically the same as that of Jonny Hayward, who played him in "Witness", the father of an American occupation army soldier and the mother of a Japanese.
Joe Sanzhong's performance in the film is actually like playing himself. Therefore, his grasp of the inner emotions of the characters and the desire to find a biological mother are delicate and accurate, achieving an effect that ordinary people cannot replace.
Joe Isaka is also a singer and boxing enthusiast. The "Straw Hat Song" of the film "Witness" is his lead singer. In August 2011, Qiao Shanzhong died of lung cancer at the age of 65.
Yusaku Matsuda, the actor of the criminal police in "Human Witness", is a Japanese multi-habitat star who combines film and television, singing, and action movies. He has played roles in many film and television dramas such as "Roar to the Sun" and has won many awards. In 1989, Yusaku Matsuda died of bladder cancer at the age of 40.
Filmed in 1977, the film "Witness" is based on the novel "Proof of Human Nature" by the famous Japanese writer Seiichi Morimura.
The older generation of speculative novelist Masashi Yokomizu pointed out: "'Proof of Human Nature' is Seiichi Morimura's highest masterpiece, and it is also the best work in Japanese speculative fiction. ”
Seiichi Morimura's mystery novels are very good at digging into the hearts of the characters.
Some people have commented that he is a writer with a conscience and integrity, so that he can make outstanding contributions to speculative fiction.
His speculative fiction not only has a great shock in the content of the subject matter, but also has its own artistic expression method.
He himself was a writer, lawyer, professor, and expert on the Japanese 731 problem.
In the 1980s, Seiichi Morimura wrote the famous reportage "The Devil's Feast", which once again attracted the attention of the world literary circles.
In the book, he uses a large number of facts to expose the evil of using Chinese as biological experiment objects to test bacterial biological and chemical weapons during the Japanese invasion of northeast China during World War II. As soon as the work was serialized in the Red Flag Newspaper, it caused a sensation, and 3 million copies of the book were sold out.
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