Chapter 104 "Sakura Sogoro" After Viewing

After watching "Sakura Sogoro" performed by the Japan Advance Theater Troupe, I couldn't help the anger and shock in my heart!The phenomenon of people exploiting and oppressing people in the play will never be allowed to survive in this world for a long time! The story of "Sakura Sogoro" which took place in 1600, like ours, is the subject of popular novels, commentaries and songs that are deeply loved by the people.In 1851, it was compiled into a kabuki script and staged.The content is: The area of ​​Sakura in Shimoso, Japan has been suffering from famine year after year.Sogoro Kiuchi, the representative of the twenty-nine villages, went to the lord's mansion together with the peasants to request tax exemption.The leading peasant was taken into custody.In order to rescue those farmers who were victimized, Sogoro decided to take the crime of exterminating his family and appeal to Edo Yueya.As a result, he was arrested in Edo and executed, and his wife and children were also beheaded at the same time.

In this tragedy, every scene has shocking scenes.The first scene is a section where countless haggard and ragged farmers in coir raincoats prostrate and beg outside the lord's gate, and are whipped and humiliated by the lord's slaves.In the second act, Sogoro decides to go to Yamen to appeal, and prepares to escape by night to bid farewell to his wife and children.He and the brave old boatman killed the ferry guards with thunder and lightning, cut off the boat locks, and hurriedly sailed in the heavy snow for a while.In the third act, Sogoro bids farewell to his wife and children and walks out of the house. His loyal wife hugs the two young children, sobbing and waving through the window, but his eldest son chases him out. He clung to his father's leg while falling and crawling on the snow, and refused to let go.In the fourth scene, in the most exciting and tense execution ground, countless peasants who came running and crying were all driven out of the bamboo fence by the execution ground guards with knives and sticks.Sogoro was tied to the torture rack and watched his wife and children beheaded one by one. Finally, the beheading officer wanted to blindfold him and prepare to execute the torture. My eyes, but you cannot always blindfold the peasants of these two hundred and eighty-four villages..." He stretched out his bound arms on the frame, his eyes were tearing apart, and he hoarse.This paragraph made people's blood agitated, and tears of sympathy were burned dry by anger!

After the play, there is a twenty-minute break.In the lounge, everyone's mood is still not calm.A Japanese friend said to me: "When young Chinese see this, they must wonder why the Japanese peasants don't rush into the execution ground?" I think that today, not only Chinese young people have such doubts. , Even young people in Japan will have such doubts.The people of the 1960s were different from the seventeenth century when the story happened. The kind and simple Japanese farmers who have endured cruel exploitation and oppression for a long time have a limit to their patience.When I was traveling in Japan in 1955, looking down from the small window of the plane, I saw that even the tops of small islands in the sea were planted with crops.The 800 US military bases are constantly expanding outwards, and farmers' arable land is getting smaller and smaller.When they are crowded to the point where they have nowhere to live, these kind and simple people will also roar soaring!

The peasants, who make up 30 per cent of the Japanese population, are under the dual oppression of U.S. imperialism and the exploiting classes in their own country, and their political consciousness has been greatly raised as a result of their suffering.They have gotten rid of the state of disorganization, and have begun to join the national unanimous opposition to the Nobusuke Kishi government, which has caused disasters to the country and the people, and to the great struggle for independence and democracy. This play is deeply moving, and it is the success of Qianjinzuo's adaptation of the script and the performance of the actors.The artistic treatment of the snow scene and so on, combined with the tense plot in the play, is also doubly moving.Nakamura Roemon, who plays Sogoro, has a deep understanding of the character's thoughts and feelings, and the performance is really vivid, tragic and passionate!In the midst of high anger, the audience doubled their deep sympathy for the peasants and hated the lords. Everyone woke up and became excited, and together promoted the masses of the people, transformed their environment, and moved towards unity and struggle!

Xiaozha". )