The film 黄石的孩子 "the Children of Huangshi"(4.2008), produced by Hollywood in 11.2006 and cooperated by China, Australia and Germany, will have 杨紫琼 Yang2 Zi3 Qiong2, a Chinese-Malaysia-Hong Kong actress and 周润发 Zhou1 Reng4 Fa1, a Chinese-Hong Kong actor who were one leading and one supporting roles in film 藏龙卧虎 "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" together with 章子怡 Zhang Ziyi, again head roles in this film (both as supporting roles here). This upcoming war tragedy film recalls the Nanjing Massacre, and will be released soon to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. It's based on a true story that a British journalist and an Australian nurse have helped a group of Chinese children to escape the Japanese aggressors' over a six-week-long bloody period in 1937. The release of this film is among the waves of many related activities so far as in the memorial of victims and their families from 70 years ago by 南京大屠杀 Nanjing Massacre (12.1937 - 1.1938) during which Japanese aggressors have slaughtered over 300,000 innocent Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in a bit of over a single month and a single city of 南京 (the capital of China during that time, before 蒋介石 Jiang3 Jie4 shi2's Nationalism government's withdrawal to 四川重庆 Sichuan Chongqing due to Japanese army's move).
Today, there are around 7 films of drama and documentary worldwide including China and Hollywood which are in producing, and trying to be released either by the end of this year, or the early of next year of 2008, to memorialize the victims from Japanese warlord's appalling atrocities in those horrific days and evenings. Among them, including an AOL's executive who happens to be in VA of this WDC metropolitan area, and who happened to read the book of "The Rape of Nanking: the forgotten Holocaust of World War II" (a best-selling book by Iris Chang, 1997), and who happened to have turned to be a producer for the documentary film "Nanking", inspired by the book (...The book prompted AOL executive Ted Leonsis to fund and produce Nanking, a 2007 documentary film about the Nanking Massacre, after he read it.[5] ... Leonsis became involved in film-making through producing Nanking, a documentary that made its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival[8]. Wikipedia).
Please remember it's those Japanese ghosts 日本鬼子 ri4 ben2 gui3 zi3 (a name referring to Japanese aggressors, called by Chinese during the Japanese occupation) who particularly chose the holiday seasons to invade China and Nanjing, the capital of China, aggressively even worse than animals, but even animals couldn't have imaged, imitated and acted like those Japanese butchers, in these important days - traditional Chinese New Year - Lunar Year's Spring Festival (1st of the first month of the lunar year) - and Rice Ball/Lantern Festival (15th of the first month of the lunar year) for which Chinese people and most Asian people in this Far East and Southeastern regions joyously and heartily celebrated with and cherished the most, and Christmas and the A.D. New Year between the year of 1937 and 1938, to implement its "烧光，杀光，抢光"，called 三光政策, literally and meaning "burn to zero, kill to zero, rob to zero", a Japanese military's policy and slogan whenever they entered a place in China.
When we celebrated our Christmas eves and New Year's days, our Chinese New Years and Rice Ball/Lantern Festivals, this year and every past years and future years, do we have ever thought about those souls - who are still sleepless in the heaven and who still open their eyes - yell loudly questioning if justice has been served? Can we recall and image those souls' cries and pains in those horrible evenings and days in that holiday season 70 years ago, that no one could come over to help and rescue them, but the whole world was cheerfully celebrating the holidays with loved ones and families? And those souls have been forgotten and buried for 70 years and may continue to be and may forever?
And can we, or you, or anyone image that we have been waiting for Japanese, or its government one word - a formal apology - for a 70 years, and still waiting for now? Don't you think, as a human, that simply an apology will be enough, as a final deal? For a figure of 300,000 brutally killed people, and 20,000 frightfully raped women? And a total of died 30,000,000 Chinese people and other Asians (figures?) in World War II due to the Imperial Japanese Army's invasion and murders? Not enough, Japan has never prosecuted those murderers in the days of the bloodbath, contrary to Germany, instead of, they destroyed all the evidences, and allow those killers to live comfortably and freely everywhere within Japan, allow those butchers become more powerful today in every corner of Japanese society, and allow murderers growing old to today to admit their war crimes publicly without shame and being punished (those old soldiers now confided they slaughtered Chinese 100 each, they did so by competitions, they did so by group watching, and they did so by happily laughing ...); on the other hand, Japan continues to shamelessly deny the Massacre in this 70 year period as a country and as a government and as a whole. They continue to worship and honor those war criminals who have been executed at the Tokyo Trials (total only 14! - for the whole crime in WWII!) and fallen soldiers as national martyrs and heroes.
Remember it's Japanese warlord who bombed the Pearl Harbor at 2am just after midnight when most unarmed American soldiers were sleeping? Can they deny this too?
This was the 2nd Sino-Japan War in history. And this history will never be forgotten and forgiven!
Quoted from Wikipedia:
Other nations (comparing to Japan self - my note) usually believe the death toll to be between 150,000–300,000.[6] This number was first promulgated in January of 1938 by Harold Timperly, a journalist in China during the Japanese invasion, based on reports from contemporary eyewitnesses. Other sources, including Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking, also promote 300,000 as the death toll. In addition, on December 12, 2007, newly declassified U.S. government documents revealed an even higher additional toll in the 500,000 range, in the area surrounding Nanking before it was occupied.[7]
(Related links: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/12/content_7236237.htm
In 1947, at the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, the verdict for Lieutenant General Hisao Tani—the commander of the 6th Division—quoted a figure of more than 300,000 dead. This estimate was made from burial records and eyewitness accounts. It concluded that some 190,000 were illegally executed at various execution sites and 150,000 were killed one-by-one. The death toll of 300,000 is the official estimate engraved on the stone wall at the entrance of the "Memorial Hall for Compatriot Victims of the Japanese Military's Nanking Massacre" in Nanjing.
In China today most estimates of the Nanking Massacre range from 200,000 to 400,000, with no notable historian going below 100,000.
A 42-part ROC documentary produced in 1995, entitled "An Inch of Blood For An Inch of Land"[27] (一寸河山一寸血) - a very popular statement, deep in sorrow in Chinese then when fighting against Japanese invasion - , asserts that 340,000 Chinese civilians died in Nanking City as a result of the Japanese invasion, 150,000 through bombing and crossfire in the 5-day battle, and 190,000 in the massacre, based on the evidence presented at the Tokyo Trials.
Warning - the materials within the following links can be very disturbing
http://centurychina.com/wiihist/
the Nanjing Massacre Facts 南京大屠杀惨案资料 (12.1937 - 1.1938)
http://www.cnd.org/mirror/nanjing/
WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆
the Nanjing Massacre Facts 南京大屠杀惨案资料 (12.1937 - 1.1938)
http://www.cnd.org/mirror/nanjing/
WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆
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