When I was a child, I loved fairy tales.
Sleeping Beauty gets kissed by true love, Cinderella puts on crystal shoes, and Snow White marries the prince.
In fairy tales, happiness and joy are the endings.
However, princes and princesses are rare after all, and Cinderella has thousands.
Their journey in life will not be as beautiful as Hans Christian Andersen's story, full of purple morning glory flowers, and a blue dragonfly has fallen on each flower bud.
The vast majority of Cinderella's life is not a fairy tale at all.
Today's Amway movie, the protagonist is Cinderella, who has a life of rejection more than Pine Nuts.
"Wangxiang"
The film is also called Sandakan No. 8 Prostitution House.
There are two reasons for this,
First, the place where the heroine works is called Sandakan No. 8.
Second, the film is adapted from the documentary literary work "Sandakan No. 8 Prostitution House".
This work is the representative work of the famous Japanese female historian Tomoko Yamazaki.
The film features Keiko Mitani (yamazaki Tomoko) as the clue character, played by Kurihara Komaru, who is born beautiful and difficult to abandon.
In 2008, she also won the China-Japan Friendship Exchange Promotion Award.
Of course, the most exciting thing for fans is probably Tanaka Atsuyo, who plays Akira.
As the only actress who has stood tall in silent films and sound films for more than fifty years, she represents the highest level of Japanese actresses.
"The Daughter of the West Crane Generation", "The Tale of the Rain Moon", "The Examination of the Mountain Festival" and other immortal film masterpieces have her appearance.
▲ Stills of "The Examination of the Mountain Festival"
In "Wangxiang", in order to shape Azaki's old age dilemma, Tanaka Seiyo actually pulled out all the good teeth.
Due to the long time span of the characters, Azaki Po has two actors.
In her youth, she was played by Yoko Takahashi.
In order to get rid of poverty and let his brother have money to marry and have children, Azaki, like many Cinderella, decided to go abroad to work.
The place they went was Sandakan in the Southeast Ocean.
Later, these people had a common name, Nanyang Sister.
At that time, the Japanese opened nine prostitution houses in Sandakan and named them in order, so there was the Sandakan No. 8 Pavilion.
Azaki was sold to The Eighth Hall.
At first she did just some errands to clean up errands.
When she was 14 years old, her boss ordered her to pick her up.
Selling his body, Azaki Po refused.
The boss said that if he wanted to leave here, he would have to earn more money to redeem himself.
In order to get out of here, she gave in.
Taking the first step, the boss opened the brainwashing mode for Azaki Po,
Now to go back is also to find a poor man to marry, and marriage is also a long-term prostitution
Thinking of his impoverished family and his promise to his brother to "earn money to help him marry his wife" before leaving, Azaki gave in.
In order to earn more money, she actively learned the local language and expanded her customers.
Her colleague solicited only japanese people, and she even pulled locals.
If there is any shining point in this meat selling career, it is not money, but the appearance of Hideo Takeyama.
Hideo Takeyama, so poor that he only had a bitter background of feelings.
He can give Azaki love, but he can't even come up with the money that can "that night".
Fairy tales tell us that lovers eventually become dependents, and then reality is very face-slapping, telling us that rich people eventually become dependents.
Hideo did not give her a future, and disappeared into the vast sea of people.
Love is gone, and Azaki's career is not going well.
Hall 8 also hosted Japanese soldiers.
The military demanded that a woman pick up 30 men.
Even if it can withstand this anti-human test, Hall 8 ultimately did not resist the fate of decay.
Its last shopkeeper is Aju Mama, a good man with capital letters.
She can fight for the personal interests of Nanyang Sister and erect a tombstone for the dead Nanyang Sister.
Before her death, Aju's mother told Nanyang Sister that she would never return to Japan.
Azaki po expressed his disobedience and resolutely returned to China.
After going out to sell her body and earn money to help her brother start a family, she turned out to be a family disgrace.
Only then did Ah Qi Po understand that Aju's mother did not let them go back.
Selling themselves has become a birthmark that they can't wash off, and their hometown has become a foreign land that they can never go back to.
Disheartened, Azaki went to northeast China, where she married a Japanese who was also born bitterly.
However, the family was devastated by the war.
The husband died, and the son refused to live with her in order to get rid of the shame of his mother being Nanyang sister.
His son lived in Tokyo, while Azaki spent a long time alone in the town of Sakizu in Amakusa, Kyushu.
Without Keiko Mitani's interview, Azaki's life would have been buried in a grave unknown.
"Wangxiang" has a distinctly critical color for the Japanese government.
When Azaki made her first sexual transaction in her life, she ran to the heavy rain, hoping that the rain would wash away her shame.
Later, the Japanese army asked a Nanyang sister to receive 30 Japanese soldiers, which directly stated the attitude of the film -
Because the fate of Nanyang Sister is not only a personal tragedy of Azaki's mothers, but also a sadness of the Japanese government.
The birth of Nanyang Sister is the deformed fruit of the Strange Policies of the Japanese Government.
During the Meiji period, Ito Hirobumi advocated the retention of the Tokugawa-style "yukuo policy".
The economic effects of this industry are quite outstanding. After the Russo-Japanese War, "Nanyang Sister" once became the main source of subsidies for the Japanese economy.
At the end of the 1930s, 140,000 Japanese women became Nanyang sisters.
There is an Azaki po in the movie, but in reality there are 140,000 Japanese Cinderella in the South China Sea.
They use their precious flesh to earn money, and when they are old and decaying, they are insulted and never return to their hometown.
What caused their tragic fate was the indifference of the Japanese people, and even more the dereliction of duty of the Japanese government.
"Wangxiang" uses a lens at the end to express this accusation.
Nanyang Sister's graves are all facing away from Japan.
The country that had squeezed their flesh and eventually abandoned them, they would never go back.
After the release of "Wangxiang", the response was enthusiastic.
In 1974, he won the first place in the newspaper.
Also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Berlin Film Festival gave the film to Tanaka Atsuyo.
Of course, the most worth mentioning is that "Wangxiang" has caused a sensation in China.
As a large-scale drama film, it is not easy for "Wangxiang" to pass the review in the mainland. Because the film also shows female nudes.
In order to avoid causing riots in mainland theaters, the mainland special edition still moved a scalpel.
Despite this, there are still people who denounce "Wangxiang" as a pornographic film and demand that it be banned.
"People's Daily" made a big report on this, calling for the release of "Wangxiang",
The policy of confinement is a dangerous policy, which can lead people to decline in their thinking, to fight alone, not to see the world, and not to sing to the stage. What good does this have for our socialism?
Ba Jin also expressed strong opposition to the ban on the screening, and personally wrote an article,
"I would like to ask: Is what is positive in our great socialist motherland dominant? So why are there still many people today who are worried that young people will fall into the abyss of evil when they leave the greenhouse, and they are eager to transform young people into "five hundred type" robots with 'no sexual programs'? ”
In any case, "Wangxiang" completely exploded in China.
At that time, the film's ticket price in Beijing was 1.5 jiao. In order to see the film as soon as possible, it was fried to 2 yuan.
That's two bucks from 40 years ago.
In the 1980s, Tomoko Yamazaki went to Shanghai to cover the atrocities of the 1932 Massacre of Shanghainese citizens by the Japanese Army. The victims of that year had a cold attitude towards her interviews.
However, when they learned that "Wangxiang" was adapted from the work of Tomoko Yamazaki, they actively cooperated with the interview.
This surprised Tomoko Yamazaki that "Wangxiang" has such a big influence in China.
Of course, Yamazaki wrote a biography of those who were humiliated on the margins, representing that the conscience of mankind has not been extinguished.
▲Tomoko Yamazaki interviews Azaki Po
And the popularity of "Wangxiang" in the world has always made me confident in the conscience of mankind.