One, Yasujiro Ozu and his people
He is one of the world's most famous directors, but he also participated in the war of Japanese aggression against China in his early years.
The unit he belongs to is the No. 2 Field Squadron of the Gas Team Headquarters, which was sent to Shanghai by the Japanese Army. This unit belongs to the Second Wing of the Guards Infantry (equivalent to a brigade), and the task of the Gas Team is to release poison gas and disinfect it. When he was in the army, his rank was corporal commander (probably entitled to command a squad), and when he left the army he was promoted to sergeant and was able to command a squad (equivalent to a platoon).
"Iperite", because it smells like mustard oil, it is called mustard gas, and it is one of the erosive poisons. This "erosive toxin" mainly invades the human body through the respiratory tract, skin and eyes, and can damage the body tissue cells, causing respiratory mucosal necrosis, skin erosion, photophobia and even blindness. In addition, irritant poisons mainly irritate the eyes and upper respiratory tract; incapacitating poisons mainly make people temporarily incapacitated, and may experience symptoms such as dizziness, confusion, and slow movement.
His photography assistant, Daofu Bichuan once said, "Ozu spit poison gas on the Yangtze River". In modern warfare, chemical warfare and chemical weapons are prohibited by international law, and Japan signed the Hague Convention as early as 1897 and the Geneva Convention in 1925. Therefore, Japan's use of chemical weapons is completely illegal.
After the founding of New China, and even after 2000, there were still many cases of mustard gas left by the Japanese army wounding people in China, and the Tokyo High Court rejected the victim's application for compensation.
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Ozu mentioned comfort women in his letter:
"There was a comfort station here about four days ago... The comfort station is as follows: 1. The purpose of the station is to be quiet, and there must be no despicable behavior that hinders other people's fighting behavior or competes for comfort members; 2. In order to prepare for the next battle, except for In addition to maintaining combat effectiveness, just like how to break through the detoxification zone, you must wear protective equipment, and never use it for a while, or turn the protective equipment over. 4. Those who are inadvertently infected with willow disease shall notify the village head of Ding, the city of their origin; To refer to sexual behavior, "weapons" are intended to refer to "genitals", and "protective devices" are used to describe contraceptives.)
In his diary on January 13, 1939, Ozu, who was in Yingcheng, Hubei, made the following remarks: "Today, there was a comfort station outside the city. Issue two comfort coupons, Xing Mi cream, and some rubber, three from the peninsula (note: refer to North Koreans), and twelve from the Chinese. A large scene of fifteen people is counted. The comfort coupon reads: No alcohol and food in the comfort station; Those who are very drunk are allowed to enter and leave the comfort station; pay attention to guarding the military aircraft so as not to leak to ensure safety; strictly observe the time and pay attention to hygiene; Yin. Soldiers are one yen per hour from 13:00 to 16:30, corporals are 100 yen and 50 per hour from 17:00 to 19:30, and 2 yen per hour." ("Rubber" in the diary For contraceptives, "Xing Mi Cream" may be a hygiene product.)
2. Ozu's attitude towards war
——You can't treat war with a dark mood. To put it a little more complicatedly, it is impossible to hold the spirit of negation. Everything must be affirmed. In this way, the strength as a person can come out.
——“When I see this kind of Chinese soldiers, I don’t think they are people at all. They are like bugs that can be seen everywhere. It is impossible to recognize the value of people from them, but they are just enemies who arrogantly resist, no, look Going up is like something, no matter how you shoot (them), you will be calm." "Ozu Yasujiro Battlefield Talk"
Netizens commented on his interviews and memoirs:
3. The state of the victim
mustard gas victim
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comfort women
It is said that only 2 people have survived in the country so far, but they have not waited for an official apology from Japan. The comfort women's story:
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Movies include "Thirty-two", "Twenty-two", "The Last Comfort Woman", "Grandma's Secret", "Ghost Town", "Snow Road", "Wang Township", etc.
Photos of 30 Survivors of the Nanjing Massacre
Fourth, why boycott the director
Please look into the eyes of the survivors upstairs. Can you forgive those who hurt them at will and have no regrets so far? Do you have the heart to tell them that the movies made of your criminals are so good that every Chinese with normal aesthetic ability should watch them carefully? Can you say to them, you see, the people who hurt you in the past have now made great achievements and honors in China?
Usually, in the face of the news of cat and dog abuse, it is still necessary to condemn the murderer as having no humanity, and the criminal who committed heinous crimes against living people has not received any punishment and has not accepted the inner condemnation. I cannot accept that war is not a fig leaf for the rationalization of crime.
I would like to say to these elderly victims that there are still people who remember your pain, the crimes they committed have not been forgotten, and these criminals do not deserve to be respected and remembered more than you. In front of these war victims, please don't show this director's works in China during their lifetime! The public screening and applause of the criminals' works, compared with the tragic lives of the victims of the war of aggression, eclipsed by no one cared, is a sharp sword that pierces their hearts.
Fifth, Israel's attitude towards anti-Semitic attitude artist and Hitler's spiritual mentor Wagner -
Public performance of German composer Wagner is a taboo in Israel, and every touch sparks widespread debate. In October last year (the article was published in 2001), I saw a classic photo in the newspaper: in the solemn and solemn opera hall, a Jewish old man with a pouting mouth vigorously shook a "Purim" toy, let It made a high-pitched noise, with anger and disdain written all over its face. The old man, a Holocaust survivor, was alone against a "Siegfried Pastoral" played by the Rishon LeZion Symphony. This is the first public performance of Wagner in more than 50 years since the founding of Israel.
Wagner, who played an important role in the history of classical music in the 19th century, died in 1883, and there was still a considerable amount of time before the rise of the German Nazis, but he always had anti-Semitic tendencies, and was "the maker of anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic theories and a leader of racial superiority. Advocate". More importantly, Hitler, the Nazi devil, has always admired Wagner, calling his music an outstanding representative of the "Aryan spirit", and named Wagner his "spiritual godfather". In 1981, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, performed a fragment of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde in the encore of a performance, and a Holocaust survivor took to the stage on the spot. Unbuttoning his shirt to reveal his scars from the camp, Mehta had to stop playing. Ten years later, the Israel Symphony Orchestra had planned to perform Wagner's work, but had to cancel it due to public pressure. Recently, the topic of Wagner has become the focus of the Israeli media again, because the Israel Culture and Arts Festival held in July this year is scheduled to stage a fragment of Wagner's opera "Ring of the Nibelung", act 2 "Valkyrie". The Israel Culture and Arts Festival is an annual cultural event, scheduled to perform some of Wagner's most famous epic works, with a spectacular line-up: the Staatskapelle Berlin, conductor Barenboim, principal tenor Domingo. Immediately after the news came out, there was an uproar, and people who supported and opposed the performance immediately started a full-scale debate in various media. For a time, the Wagner issue and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that had lasted for more than 7 months became a hot topic in the media. topic.
Opposition to staging Wagner's work were mainly representatives of the 300,000 Holocaust survivors who still live in Israel and some politicians. Since the festival announced the performance list, some Holocaust survivors have jointly signed a petition, President Katsav and Minister of Science, Sports and Culture Villenay also sent letters to the cultural festival board, urging them to cancel the performance plan, because For survivors of the Holocaust, Wagner meant "a symbol of a totalitarian regime that destroyed their entire world and took away their beloved relatives".
The Knesset Education Committee held a debate on May 8 on whether to approve the performance of Wagner's works. The final vote was as follows: Except for the left-wing secular Merez Party, all parties unanimously agreed to urge the festival board to cancel Wagner's performance, because the performance meant a negative Every Holocaust survivor and family suffered "tremendous, outrageous and irreparable" damage.
The current director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Avi Shushani, said that although more than 90% of the members of the orchestra hope that Wagner's works can be performed in public, "as long as there is one Holocaust survivor who objects", as Israel's national symphony orchestra, they Both were "against the public performance of Wagner".
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Of course, Israel also supports art without borders, but Wagner is only anti-Semitic, not a war criminal, and the German government has apologized to the Jewish nation. The work of the bloody executioner will be scolded as a barbarian who doesn't understand art... Please take pity on the victim before empathizing with the murderer?
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