Recently I saw a short documentary named Japanese living in Nanking, made by a Chinese Media company.
This documentary lasts about 14 mins but I think it is very worthy and meaningful. It talks about few Japanese who live in Nanjing where is the city happened Nanking Massacre during the World War two. Only hundreds of Japanese live in that historical city with approximately 8 million Chinese, I think those hundreds of Japanese are really brave. Because of the historical issue Nanking Massacre, many Chinese who live in Nanking hate Japanese, they even don’t care did they kill someone or not. I hate Japanese because you Japanese government and army massacre my city, this kind of emotion and mind actually can’t be moved from their brain.
Those hundreds of Japanese they choose to stay in Nanking, they choose to face to the history and suffer the dander or maybe curse from Chinese stranger. I do think they are warriors.
This documentary wants to tell all the Chinese that not all Japanese doesn’t admit the Nanking Massacre, to those Japanese who want to be friends with us Chinese, who want to live in China to have their new life, we should accept. Don’t hold the part as a whole. It will take a long time to moderate the relation between China and Japan, but now, to those kind and friendly Japanese, please accept and take care of them.
To make meaningful, worthy and remarkable documentaries, is one of the reason I chose this studio, Ecologies of Noticing. I hope I can learn more than I think in this semester.