Chapter 135 I like to watch the Japanese repertory troupe perform in Beijing

The news that the Japanese drama troupe jointly composed of five excellent Japanese drama troupes——Literature Academy, Comedian Theater, Folk Art Troupe, Grape Club, and Tokyo Art Theater—came to visit and perform in China gave me great joy and excitement.It is the first time for a Japanese drama to be performed in China, and these famous theater troupes have played a great role in encouraging and promoting the Japanese people's struggle against the Japan-US military alliance treaty, striving for world peace and promoting China. Contributions have also been made to the friendship of the Japanese people.The Chinese people sincerely welcome their visit, and welcome their performances in China to deepen mutual understanding between the two peoples and strengthen cultural exchanges between the two countries.

The artists of the Japanese Repertory Theater fired the first shot in the warm welcome of more than 3,000 literary and art workers in the capital! Carrying the enthusiasm of the Japanese people's anti-American struggle and the friendship of the Japanese people to the Chinese people, they threw colorful flags, enthusiastic slogans and slogans at the station, and threw themselves into a sea of ​​flags, flowers, gongs and drums to welcome the masses.The people and artists of China and Japan marched side by side in the voice of opposing US aggression and defending world peace! On the evening of the 24th, I was with the audience in Beijing and watched the first performance of the Japanese Repertory Theater with great excitement.

Junji Kinoshita, the playwright of "Yu He", is an old friend of mine.As early as the winter of 1957, when we were in Cairo to attend the Asian-African People's Unity Conference, he gave me a still photo of "Sun Crane".But this is the first time I have seen the performance of "Evening Crane" on stage.This is a Japanese folklore from thousands of years ago, which is a bit like our "snail daughter-in-law" or "person in the painting".A kind and honest young couple yearned for a peaceful and happy life, but they were destroyed by the evil power of money.Unable to withstand the lure of money and luxurious life in the capital, Heping, a farmer, finally asks his wife Atong, a pure and beautiful woman who is the embodiment of a repaying crane, to weave the last two pieces of cloth with her own snow-white feathers. , so that he could take him to the capital to seek huge profits.The story turns out to be a tragedy, as the disappointed crane, after exhausting its feathers, sadly flies away.Feeling remorseful, Heping had no choice but to embrace the two pieces of white cloth and stare at the snowy sky.

The play is extremely popular with audiences in Japan.They realize that although the story is ancient, it still has alarming and realistic significance in modern life. After that, there will be three recitation plays: "Miike Coal Mine", "Okinawa Island" and "Records of Struggle Against Japan-US "Security Treaty"".There are movies, dances and singing in these three recitation plays.These powerful interludes vividly and vividly present the anti-American struggle of Japanese workers and the broad masses of people before our eyes.Many words and images are deeply impressed into the hearts of the audience, making people never forget.Such as: Miike coal miners’ miserable and oppressed life, their indomitable struggle, and their heartfelt gratitude to the Chinese coal miners for their warm support; the beautiful Okinawa Island, because of the Japanese imperialism and the American empire The site of the final battle of ism, and thus become an island swarming with flies and maggots, and a place where two hundred thousand people are buried. . . .But the people were not intimidated by the brutal U.S. occupying forces. They turned their grief and anger into strength, and joined hands with the Chinese people, Asian people, African people, and Latin American people to fight against U.S. imperialism and fight for world peace.

The last one, "Records of the Struggle against the Japan-US "Security Treaty"", pushed the audience's passion to the climax. Teams of angry people, flags waving in the wind, and passionate slogans... on the stage, the great struggle of the people for independence and freedom, unprecedented in Japanese history, was reproduced on the stage.With their chests raised and arms shouting slogans, the serpentine marching team bravely and firmly braved the bloody suppression of the reactionary rulers' trucks and iron bars in the shadow of lights and flags, marching like a furious tide!The reports on the more than 20 unified actions of the Japanese people that we saw in the newspapers all came to life in front of us at once!When the demonstration team on the stage walked off the stage holding high the flag and singing battle songs, how could the audience not burst into thunderous applause?How can we not stretch out the hot hand of the same enemy, and tightly hold the representatives of the 90 million great people of Japan?

It was almost midnight when the episode ended, and I couldn’t fall asleep for a long time that night, staring at the light rainy sky outside the window, I was thinking excitedly, just like what is said in the recitation of the drama, in Japan, the dawn has not yet come, but the night is dark In the darkness, the anger of the people's struggle, which is burning more and more vigorously, has reflected the eastern sky red, and the dawn is not far away.The brave and united Japanese people are confident, proud and optimistic, because they are not alone, they have the Chinese people, the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America fighting side by side with them.The final victory must be theirs!

I wish the Japanese Repertory Theater a successful performance! I wish the Japanese people the final victory in their patriotic and just struggle against the United States!