Japanese born in China.
In order to become popular in Shanghai, Li Xianglan found and determined his glittering temperament very early. Her original name was Shuzi Yamaguchi, and her family called her Doudou. She is Japanese, 1920, 12 was born in the north of Yantai, Liaoning Province, China in February, and soon her family moved to Fushun. Her grandfather Yamaguchi loved Sinology since he was a child and admired China's ancient culture, so he came to China from his hometown Saga Prefecture in the thirty-sixth year of Meiji (1906) and lived there for a long time. When she was born, the puppet Manchukuo was founded under the banner of "harmony among the five ethnic groups". Many Japanese think that a new era is about to begin, but the fact is just the opposite.
Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was nominally the head of the Puppet Manchukuo, but in fact he was just a puppet. The real power is in the hands of the Japanese Kwantung Army, killing innocent people and making people miserable. Seeing the tragic situation in China, my father, Fumio Yamaguchi, who works in Shenyang Railway Bureau, and my mother, Aishiqiao, who also worships Japanese culture, are both sad but full of helplessness. They can only pin their hopes on their daughter born in China. They promised to betroth her to General Li Jichun, a good friend of the then President of Shenyang Bank, as an adopted daughter. Li Xianglan was named by Li Jichun, and "Lan Xiang" was his own pen name, which was later used as a stage name by Li Xianglan.
From 65438 to 0943, Li Xianglan, a young and naive girl, came to Peiping with her love for China and Japan and her vision for the future life, and studied in Peiping Yi Jiao Girls' Middle School under the name of "Pan Shuhua". "Pan" is her other adoptive father-her father's sworn brother, surnamed Pan, then the mayor of Tianjin; "Shu" comes from the name of Yamaguchi Shuzi; "Hua" means to be born in China. Of course, this name also contains the meaning of hoping for friendly coexistence between China and Japan.
Beiping No.1 Girls' Middle School is a complete girls' high school and junior high school. It was there that she received a good education and laid the foundation for her future acting career. In the book My First Half Life-Biography of Li Xianglan, she recorded her study at that time: "I came from the Northeast to visit my relatives. As the adopted daughter of the Pan family, I went to a Yi girls' school ... When I went to school, three people went the same way, and sometimes I was left alone after school. At that time, I often went to Beihai Park by the way, practiced Chinese pronunciation or looked it up in a dictionary on an uninhabited island, and also visited the ancestral temple in the distance. "
Because of her beautiful birth, fluent Chinese and beautiful singing, her artistic talent and special background, she was quickly attracted by the puppet "Manchuria Film Association" manipulated and planned by the Japanese invaders in "The Li Family has Daughters". They mobilized her to join the club and decided to vigorously package her and push her out of China as a singer to build momentum for the aggressive policy. Young and ignorant, she is full of infinite hope for the puppet Manchukuo. She sang China songs such as The Fisherman's Daughter, Zhao Jun's Complaint and Meng Jiangnv in the new program "Manchu New Songs" of Japanese radio station in Fengtian, and became famous for a song "Evening Primrose". As a result, "singer Li Xianglan" was pushed to the front desk, quickly became popular in the music and film circles, and became a well-known "superstar". After a great success, Li Xianglan also made some films to promote the Japanese army or whitewash the Japanese war of aggression. At that time, everyone thought that she was from China, which also brought her misfortune in the future.
With the escalation of Japan's war of aggression against China and the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Japan has become the enemy of the people of the world and is deeply mired in the quagmire. On the one hand, it is murderous, on the other hand, it is crowing. In the sword, her singing is like wine mixed with ecstasy, soothing people's hearts and killing their strong fighting spirit. Although in troubled times, its popularity is increasing day by day. At the beginning of the Pacific War, her performance in the "Japanese Theater" was warmly supported by the audience, and there were actually seven and a half circles of fans around her, which caused confusion and became sensational news. At that time, she received a letter from Kenichiro Matsuoka, the eldest son of Japanese Foreign Minister Youko Matsuoka. The letter said: "A person's value cannot be measured by his fame or not. People's value is not apparent, you should take care of yourself. Now is the era when personal values are fooled. You must respect yourself more, or you will only be at the mercy of the national situation. I hope you will always respect yourself. " These words are intriguing. In the darkest period of Japanese history, the son of Foreign Minister Matsuoka, who was designated as a war criminal after the war, wrote such a letter to a female star who pretended to be a China (or "Manchurian") and worked for Japan's Far East policy. This makes people feel the strength of liberalism and the weakness of liberalism. Only as a boycott, it won't work.
Fluent Chinese and Japanese, amazing looks and European vocal singing like Di Anna Du Ping, a Hollywood actress at that time, fully reflected the ideal vision of Japanese women in China. In this way, Li Xianglan became the "sugar-coated cannonball" of the Kwantung Army's war policy.
Song Zhe Suiyue
Li Xianglan's experience is unique. Although she is a puppet China actress made by the Japanese, she made a film to publicize Japan's Far East policy to express her condolences to the Japanese army and became a goodwill ambassador for the puppet Manchukuo and China that Japan needed, but these are not.
Enough to erase all her artistic achievements.
Her singing skills are euphemistic and touching, and her singing skills are profound. As a student, she studied coloratura soprano with the famous soprano portos Lesov, and later worked as a singer in a radio station, which was the starting point of her singing career. She has sung countless classic love songs in her life. According to her own memoir My Half Life, the three most popular songs are When Will You Come Again, Suzhou Nocturne and Cordate telosma. When will you come again is an episode of the movie Samsung with the Moon in the 1930s. Although the original singer is Zhou Xuan, her singing skills have a different style. Just like some of her old photos, a charming face of Zhang Yanli, wearing a cheongsam, came from the East but not from China, with a hint of ambiguity in her brow. "Suzhou Nocturne" was written by Japanese composer Hattori Yiyi according to China's melody and referring to American love songs, especially for her.
"Cordate telosma" is probably the most widely known song. This song was composed by Li Jinguang, a composer specially invited by EMI Records Company, with reference to China folk tunes. However, the melody and rhythm inside completely adopted the European and American styles, and became a light and slow rumba, which spread all over the colorful occupied areas. Unfortunately, this is a song that has not been banned so far. Although it sounds good, many people can only sing it in private. She said in her autobiography: "Although this song is very popular, it doesn't last long. Later, the Japanese version and the Chinese version were banned from selling ... on the grounds that any soft foreign love song would make discipline disorder. " And on 1945, she sang this song in Shanghai and was summoned by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She said: "They suspected that I sang this song out of expectation.
Chongqing government or * * * government is back. "Until the second half of her life, she still remembers the songwriter Li Jinguang. 198 1 year, she specially invited him to visit Japan. They sang "cordate telosma" on the stage at a cocktail party, and a group of fans of "cordate telosma" walked while singing.
In her autobiography, she also mentioned another song, Parting Blues, which was banned because it was accused of being "decadent and demoralizing music". This song is very popular with Japanese soldiers. When the actor was asked to sing this song, the officer pretended to have something to leave the meeting, but he also hid his tears and quietly enjoyed it. Series such as Three Years of Her, One-night Stand, and I didn't see you before I got married have made fans feel nostalgic. 1In June, 945, when she performed this song at a concert in Shanghai, Chinese and Japanese fans at war were crazy about her. This is also her last public performance in Shanghai. Two months after the war, she was arrested on the charge of "colluding with the Japanese army".
In addition to singing, she has also made many films in Puppet Manchu, Shanghai, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. 1991April, she personally selected seven films she shot to participate in the Hong Kong Film Festival. These seven films are: The Night of Zhina, The Cylon Clock, My Nightingale, The Brightest Day of My Life, Escape at Dawn, Scandal and The Devil's Love of the White Snake. Among them, "My Nightingale" is a film she shot in the pseudo-"all-movie" era. This film took nearly two years and cost 250,000 yen, which is equivalent to five times the investment of ordinary movies. The film describes the joys and sorrows of the father and daughter. She thinks this is "a worldwide musical film and a real musical film in Japanese film history." The most brilliant day of my life is her masterpiece after returning to Japan after the war. Produced by Matsutake Film Company of Japan, it tells the story of a dancer who falls in love with an enemy who killed his father, and was selected as the fifth of the top ten best films. Escape at Dawn is a love tragedy written by Akira Kurosawa, which was once rated as the third of the ten best films of that year. The Legend of the White Snake is a film adapted from the China folk story The Legend of the White Snake. The audience was impressed by a beautiful China woman and her sweet singing voice.
Her singing gives people dreams, and her movies are also a sensation. She filmed Mulan Joining the Army and Forever. In Forever, she became famous in China film industry for playing the daughter of Lin Zexu. She has different interpretations of the two films. She believes that from the perspective of patriotism and resistance to the enemy-anti-Japanese, they can be completely understood by Japanese audiences. She even said that these films are acceptable to both China and China. However, her real success was that after performing Hollywood movies and Broadway operas in the 1950s, she made several films at the invitation of Hong Kong film companies, including Jin Ping Mei, One-night Stand, Mysterious Beauty, etc. All the episodes were interpreted and recorded by her. Although some people accuse her of being full of Japanese militarism, art cannot be a propaganda tool of militarism. In addition, she also participated in the documentary art film "Yellow River" and the Russian-style musical "My Oriole", followed by spies from the Soviet Union and Japan. For these, she said: "Japan is definitely defeated, but because of the defeat, it is more important to leave good art films." When the US military occupied Japan, it can be proved that Japan not only made war films, but also made excellent art films as good as European and American business cards ... "
Love and friendship
Li Xianglan and Zhang Ailing had this conversation on the cool party of a Japanese-funded literary publication Magazine. Zhang Ailing said: "Even at the age of 30, you must still be as lively as a little girl!" she
He said, "Yes, it's really boring for these old people to play shallow and pure plays. I want to play something special! " So Zhang Ailing later said, "What she wants is not ordinary and formulaic love, but' passionate'. "
According to Chen Gexin's son Chen Gang, she and her father may have a passionate love affair with Shanghai. Chen Gexin wrote many songs for her, such as Night, Dawn, Stream, Lake, Fisherman's Daughter, I wish I could not meet you before I got married, The Girl Without Sorrow and the coloratura soprano solo Haiyan written for her. At that time, when Mr. Yayoi Kusama, head of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Japanese TV stations visited Shanghai, she told TV reporters that she almost married Chen Gexin. When the reporter asked her why she didn't mention anything in the published autobiography, she smiled: "The most important thing is that it can't be written in the book."
1992, when she came to Shanghai again, Chen Gexin had already passed away. As soon as she saw Chen Gang's face, she asked Chen Gexin about his life and recalled their deep feelings 47 years ago. When she left, she choked up and looked at Chen Gang: "Your father and I are fine ..." Later, when she saw Chen Gang again in Tokyo, she also said to him: "Your father is a handsome man, but for your mother and you, I would have married him ..." She hummed Chen Gexin's "A Girl Without Sadness" over and over again: "Love, the sky is full of stars, and you are here. Love, the world has fallen asleep, and I don't feel empty with you around. I meditated on your name in the mud and forgot this worrying day. Love, although it seems that the water is ruthless, my leaves will last with you in my dreams. "
In any case, she was born in the puppet Manchukuo full of Japanese aggressive ambitions, and as an actress in China, she showed her respect for Japan. She can never be an aria of love. 1952 After returning to Japan, she married an American sculptor Noguchi who was 15 years older than her and broke up four years later. When talking about the reasons for breaking up, she said: "It is neither a third party issue nor an economic issue. It's just that time can't be together, leading to personality differences. " In fact, before they got married, they agreed on the so-called "divorce conditions": mutual respect does not affect each other's work, and once there is a contradiction, they break up as friends. Married for four years, actually lived together for less than a year.
After her divorce from Noguchi Yong, she was invited to perform the opera Shangri-La in new york. During the performance, she met a young Japanese diplomat who was sent to work in the United Nations. The 28-year-old Japanese youth sends her a bouquet of bright roses every day and visits her backstage several times in succession. Under such bold and enthusiastic courtship, they soon fell in love and finally got married. In order to cherish this rare feeling, after marrying Ying Hong, she changed her name to Ying Hong Shu Zi. Soon, with her husband's support, she retired from the film industry and became a member of the Japanese parliament (senator of the Liberal Democratic Party), and was re-elected for 18 years.
Although her love life has experienced many twists and turns, it is commendable that she always has a precious friendship. 10 years old, in the third grade of Fushun Primary School. On the train to Shenyang for an autumn outing, she met a Russian Jewish girl of the same age living in Shenyang-Liuba. She attaches great importance to this friend. She said, "June 8th is my most precious friend. Because of June 8th, I became a singing Li Xianglan; Because of June 8th, I became a living Li Xianglan. Liu Ba is like an amulet arranged by God in my life, sometimes like the sun, sometimes like the moon. She will always be with me. " With the help of Liuba, she began to learn coloratura soprano from portos Lesov, a famous opera singer of the Soviet Grand Theatre, and a friend of Liuba's family. It is precisely because Mrs. portos Lesov holds a solo concert in Yamato Hotel every autumn that she was discovered by Dong Jingsan, the section chief of Fengtian Radio, and hired her as a full-time singer of the new radio program, which made her embark on the road of performing arts. Recalling all this, she said with great emotion, "Isn't it?" Without June 8th, I wouldn't learn to sing, and there would be no singing Li Xianglan! "Not only that, Liu Ba saved her life. After learning that Li Xianglan was imprisoned and was about to be shot, Liu Ba returned to her home in Beiping and got a Japanese household registration certificate belonging to Yamaguchi's family for her, which saved her from treason.
Imperfect love plus perfect career and perfect friendship, in this way, she drew an unsatisfactory full stop for her first half of life.
Ah, I'm going home!
History is often embarrassing and makes people feel a kind of pain that tears their bodies and minds. After the Battle of Midway, Japan was losing ground. With the arrival of Japan's defeat day, the illusory history of Japanese empire's manipulation of "puppet Manchukuo" in 13 also came to an end.
With the demise of the "Puppet Manchukuo", a nationwide crusade against traitors was launched. Li Xianglan, a famous movie star and singer, was also put on the bench.
1946 In February, as the heroine of the Puppet Manchukuo Film Association, she was convicted of assisting the Japanese aggressors in propaganda. The prosecutor finally sentenced her to death for "being a Japanese, but co-producing Japanese films pretending to be China, helping Japanese mainland policies and betraying China" and "using Chinese and Japanese languages and using friends to engage in espionage". However, she knows in her heart that she has never been engaged in espionage and she has never helped Japan's mainland policy. In order to prove her innocence, she presented a document to prove her Japanese identity in court, and the judge declared her innocent. This amazing fact made people in court very angry. In the face of everyone's roar, she sang a song with tears, expressing her deep affection for China, who raised herself, and at the same time deeply repenting her crimes in the first half of her life. The song resonated, and all the people told her with songs: "Let's return good for evil."
Looking back on her life, it is hard to understand why she was almost sentenced to death just because she sang unconsciously. She is simple and kind, hoping for Sino-Japanese friendship, but she was used and fooled, became a tool of Japanese aggression against China, and was hated by Japanese people. From this perspective, she is only a victim of history, and all the subsequent experiences are caused by the times. "A person fooled by the times and illusory policies is also happy if he wakes up from a nightmare and has the opportunity to reflect or explain his behavior at that time." What she said to the puppet Manchukuo "Gonggua" and Yoshioka, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, can also be used as an explanation for her first half of her life.
1On February 29th, 946, she said goodbye to Shanghai with tears and returned to Japan by boat. After returning to Japan, she began to develop her career and became a Japanese actress, Shuko Yamaguchi, and named herself "Lan Xiang Yamaguchi". She claims to be a "Sino-Japanese hybrid" and a "spiritual hybrid" of Japan and China. During this period, under the guidance of director Akira Kurosawa, she reached a new peak in her film career and played many roles in American films and musicals. 1974, she was elected as a Japanese senator, and she was active on the social stage as a politician. At the same time, she also co-authored Days in China-Li Xianglan: My First Half Life with journalist Fujiwara Zomi. Through this autobiography, she bravely exposed the great disaster brought to the Japanese people by the Japanese militaristic war of aggression against China, and expressed her sincere desire for peace that "China and China should stop fighting, we are both black-haired and black-eyed". As a victim and witness of history, she also taught Japanese teenagers to remember: "It's all true!" 1989, Fuji TV released its TV series Goodbye, Li Xianglan. Subsequently, Mr Azzari Keita successfully adapted the musical Li Xianglan. The musical has been performed 184 times since it premiered 199 1 in Tokyo Castle Peak Theater in June, with an audience of over180,000. /kloc-Gao Qiao Yahong, a 0/7-year-old Japanese high school student, once wrote to asari keita: "The musical" Li Xianglan "not only tells me the historical events and the background of the times, but also tells me the facts of the war and gives me inspiration for how to open up the future with neighboring China."
During the period from 1974 to 1992, Li Xianglan was successively elected as a member of parliament to help Japan and China rebuild their old friendship. After the latest idea of "open door policy" was put forward, the China government extended her welcome arms. With the publication of her autobiography and classic album, she has regained favor in the eyes of a new generation of China people.
Two Motherland, Two Mothers
Li Xianglan called Japan the motherland and China the old country. She said that she has two mothers-one is Japanese and the other is from China; She has a heart-half in Japan and half in China. Life and history, including stories about Sino-Japanese relations.
Memory will not be wiped out because of its "misfortune" and "unhappiness". China raised her, and Japanese nationality is an indisputable fact for her. This special identity makes her heart in contradiction all her life.
1937, as a native of China, accompanied her to Zhongnanhai to attend the silent prayer meeting for the dead compatriots in the "12.9" incident. At the meeting, everyone expressed their determination: some went to Nanjing to find the national government, some went to northern Shaanxi to join the Red Army, and some said they would stay and fight until the last breath. When asked what to do if the Japanese invaded Beijing, she didn't know how to answer, so she had to say, "I'm standing on the wall of Beijing." This is a difficult choice for her who loves both her motherland and her native land. Standing on the Wall of Beijing may be the best choice, as she wrote in her autobiography, "I can only say so." Standing on the wall, the Japanese artillery fire came from the outside, and China's shooting came from the inside of the wall. No matter which side is hit, bullets from both sides may hit me, and I may be the first to die. I instinctively thought, this is my best way out. "
This emotion has been bothering her for a long time. In her autobiography, she described her helplessness and great pain in the face of this contradiction: "China people didn't know I was Japanese, and I cheated China people. A sense of guilt is wrapped around my heart, as if I have entered a dead end and fallen into a desperate situation. " She herself made up her mind several times to announce the fact that she was Japanese, but she didn't have the courage to do it. Nevertheless, as she has lived in China since childhood, her feelings for China are very real. She is a historical witness to the Japanese militaristic war of aggression against China. She experienced the "September 18th Incident" and "Lugouqiao Incident" and witnessed the "Pingdingshan Incident". When some Japanese denied this evil history, she dared to solemnly and sadly announce that Japan should apologize to the people of China under the pressure of the Japanese right wing! In her autobiography, her language expressions are often "going to Japan" and "going back to China".
1987, she finally got her wish and returned to Shanghai as a politician and a friendly person, looking for her old country, hometown and old friends. Their hearts smelled of cordate telosma. 1992165438+1October, she was invited to attend the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Guilin. Although she lives in Japan, she still speaks Beijing dialect. During her stay in Beijing, she visited her former residence. Although she has already "changed her appearance", she can still clearly identify it. She also tasted snacks from Beijing, satisfying her deep homesickness. Later, she returned to Shanghai, met Li Jinguang again at the Garden Hotel, and told about the old friendship. Both old people were in tears. After the meeting, she carefully helped Mr. Li step by step out of the hotel. Who knows this is the last time they met, and Mr. Li died the next year.
In the same year, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Mr. asari keita, head of Four Seasons Troupe, led the troupe to visit China again with the musical Li Xianglan after 1988' s first visit to China. There were 15 performances in the places where the story of "Li Xianglan" took place-Beijing, Changchun, Shenyang and Dalian. At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Culture, this performance was highly valued by senior officials in China and People's Republic of China (PRC). Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru takeshita also made a special trip to Dalian to attend the premiere of Li Xianglan. The Four Seasons Troupe also sent its best team to send "Li Xianglan" back to the motherland 47 years after the end of the war.
The drama describes her ups and downs of life, vividly reproduces the history of the Japanese war of aggression against China, so as to warn people not to forget the war, which has aroused great repercussions in China. Every performance of the troupe has been well received by the audience, with nearly 500 performances.