"Warm Current" was premiered in Tokyo. Photo by Hua Yi
TOKYO, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The premiere ceremony of the large-scale documentary "Warm Current" commemorating the normalization of Diplomatic Relations between China and Japan and the second "Warm Current" Practice and Peace Youth Forum of the 2019 China-Japan Youth Exchange Promotion Year was held in Tokyo on the 4th, and nearly 100 guests from all walks of life in China and Japan attended the premiere meeting.
Approved by the Information Office of the State Council, the large-scale documentary "Warm Current" is a documentary that shows many true, objective, vivid and touching stories between the Chinese and Japanese peoples, with Hu Deping, former member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as the general planner of the film, Nie Li, former vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, Chen Haosu, former president of the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and others as general advisers. "Warm Currents" was originally scheduled to be 6 episodes, and eventually produced as an 8-episode documentary.
"Warm Currents" tells the touching past of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and other revolutionaries of the older generation who interacted with Friendly Japanese figures, Nie Rongzhen's adoption of Japanese orphans on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese medical workers saving lives and helping the wounded of Chinese officers and soldiers during the Liberation War, the repatriation of Japanese war criminals and overseas Chinese in the early days of the founding of New China, and the sino-Japanese nongovernmental trade exchanges before the normalization of diplomatic relations. The film tells the audience through the little-known examples of oral accounts of witnesses of the two countries and their descendants: History has not gone far, the people still remember those Sino-Japanese friendship and people of insight who exude the light of humanity, and people's friendship is the eternal theme.
Wang Taiping, general counsel of "Warm Current", delivered a speech on the spot. Photo by Hua Yi
"Warm Current" was originally planned to be broadcast in September 2012 as a large-scale gift documentary on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and in 2011, "Warm Current" encountered the serious impact of the "cold current" of Sino-Japanese relations when it started, but under the leadership of Mr. Hu Deping, the chief planner, and with the support of friendly people and institutions from all walks of life in the two countries, the documentary "Warm Current" was finally completed. According to the chief producer Yoko Sakurai, "Warm Current" will be broadcast in the mainstream media of China and Japan within this year.
On the same day, the second "Warm Current" Practice of Peace Youth Forum was also held, and representatives of university students from China and Japan talked about their experiences of participating in people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. The stage play "Warm Currents of Parent-Child Love" (Japanese name "Go to See Mother Onion") was also held on the same day. This is a Japanese stage play based on the theme of nursing care, which tells the story of friendship between family members, and will be performed in Beijing in October this year as the Sino-Japanese cultural exchange program of "Warm Current".
Group photo of the crew of the stage play "Warm Current's Parent-Child Love" (Japanese name "Go to See Mother Onion"). Photo by Hua Yi