Japanese TV drama 《李香蘭》 RIKORAN 《李香兰》 Li Xianglan - on set 上戸彩 帝比

After showing the childhood scene, a Japanese actress Ueto Aya acted as Li　Xianglan in the TV　drama "Rikoran" 李香蘭(TV Tokyo, テレビ東京）Feb. 2007.

Li Xianglan(李香蘭、李香兰) was born in China in　1920.　When she was 13, her Chinese foster father(養父)gave her name Li Xianglan. She lived as a Chinese singer and actress, hiding the fact that she actually was a Japanese named Yamaguchi Yoshiko(山口淑子). In order to avoid anti-Japanese movement against the invasion of Japanese army, she had tried to hide it till the end of WW2 .
Feb. 1941, Li Xianglan （李香蘭、李香兰）went to Japan to have a concert as a Chinese singer at The Japan Theatre (日本劇場). Japanese fans believed that she was a famous and mysterious Chinese movie star who could speak Japanese and loved Japan.

In those dark and painful war days, Japanese people wanted fun time bringing some dream. On the first concert day, about 100,000 people gathered to see her though they didn't have a ticket. In the theater, more than 3,500 fans were standing up to sing a Japanese lyric song with Li Xianglan. The last part of this video shows the scene. The song was Italian opera "Libiamo"(乾杯の歌).


Li Xianglan, in her young ages, simply believed the Japan's slogan "Goodwill between Manchuria(満州国) and Japan". But the purpose of Japanese government was to utilize her popularity.　The Japanese government aimed Japanese people feel that Manchuria was a dream land worth emigrating and aimed maintain the capital right. About 320,000 Japanese farmers emigrated to Manchuria with a dream of prosperity.

Four years later, August 1945, when Li Xianglan was still singing in Shanghai, the Japanese emigrants in Manchuria lost everything. 1/3 of them were able to go back to Japan. Others, mainly ladies and children, were violated and killed by Russian army and Chinese robbers. Japanese male were taken to Siberia, forced to work in cold woods. Some Chinese kindly became the foster parents(養父母) for the Japanese lost children.

The hell for the Japanese emiglant continued for several years. This is behind the beautiful scene.
崛川敦厚 Horikawa Tonko 堀川とんこう

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[JUKIO01]

whats this? some japanese tv show about chinese ww2?

[MrKurousa]

解説ありがとうございます。当時の満州の歴史がわかりやすく書か­れていると思います。

シーダ＝そうだ、コーソ＝うそ、イーベン＝日本、オーザイ＝無罪­などの中国語をはじめて知りました。

[d23t]

just download it on youtube, it will be a pain to find it somewhere else. There is not enough information on there.

[crerjp]

That is "white snow" by Japanese singer song writer Kokia.

[hanna1801]

can i get the name of the song?