The Korean movie "Battleship Island" starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub and Song Joong-ki tells the story of a North Korean laborer who fought against Japanese military businessmen on Hashima, Japan during World War II, and finally gained his freedom.
In the first half of the film, ordinary North Koreans living in the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" serve the Japanese at a lower level every day. Some sell their skills, some flatter them, and some act as the mouthpiece of the Japanese to call on young Koreans to go to the battlefield to shed blood and sacrifice for Japan. .
However, when these people were forcibly conscripted to Hashima, they had only two identities: men as laborers and women as comfort women. The Japanese also seem to formally formulate labor contracts for North Koreans: North Korean men are paid wages for labor, but the actual wages are deducted from all expenses incurred by a person in Hashima. At night with a pass to plagiarize North Korean women. North Korean women work during the day and receive reception at night.
This division of labor is absurd and essentially no different from slaves, but it still pays the laborers. Because Japan underwent capitalist transformation after the "Meiji Restoration", all social activities succumbed to the powerful driving force of the beast capital. The huge profits generated by Hashima Kaihai Coal were all attributed to the Mitsubishi Group, which was the integration of military and finance at that time. Every ton of coal dug up by the North Koreans, every tunnel dug, the pension for every collapse of the coal mine...is money, and it flows into Mitsubishi, the beast of capital.
It is absurd that Hashima has a Mitsubishi company, and it is even more absurd that the North Koreans have the chairman of the labor union. This person is Yin Xuezhe, who specially negotiated with the Japanese for the North Koreans. The pension for the collapsed accident and every labor strike movement were led by this leader to reach one settlement after another with the Japanese.
If it wasn't for Park Moo-young, a special soldier of the Restoration Army, who discovered the secret ledger, no one might have thought that North Koreans had chosen a "North Korean traitor" as the chairman of the trade union. The chairman of the union must stand on the same line with the workers, not with the boss. After learning that the Americans had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that Japan was defeated in World War II, the former leader demanded not only the money but also the lives of his North Korean workers.
At this point in the film, the North Koreans are awakened. The Japanese are jackals that suck blood and eat flesh. The company contracts are all absurd and unreasonable waste paper. How can jackals let them go after eating human blood, and they will never give up until they suck up their flesh and blood. In the dark mine, I'm a slave, I'm a gangster, I'm a jerk, but you not only drain me, but you want me to die. If I want to live, I will fight with you!
Just live for justice!
Park Wuying called for a coal carrier, Cui Qixing bought time for the Koreans to board the ship, and Li Jiangyu built a fortification to send a large number of Koreans on the carrier. Justice may be not to deceive people too much. As many North Koreans go out, there are as many people who can accuse the Japanese of their crimes on Hashima. "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent"
During the same period, not only North Koreans, but also 3,765 Chinese workers were forced to be requisitioned in Hashima. They dig sea coal on Hashima day and night and breathe mineral dust every day. As of the end of World War II, there were 722 Chinese workers in Hashima. Tortured to death on the island.
Japan's Kyodo News reported on 4th 2018 that in June 2016, Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corporation reached a settlement agreement with the Chinese victims regarding the issue of forced recruitment of Chinese laborers during World War II, paying each victim 10 10,000 yuan, and set up a fund within 2018, the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship. The agreement is currently undergoing final coordination. If the last hurdle of establishing a fund is realized, it will be possible to pay the bereaved family members, and targeting the largest number of 3,765 people in history, the example of Sino-Japanese reconciliation will be established .
The credits end in the mushroom cloud of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. I have read the information that the moment the atomic bomb explodes, human flesh will directly vaporize. The person hiding in the house vaporized and turned into a shadow forever imprinted on the wall. The Japanese in Nagasaki were civilians, and the Korean and Chinese laborers were also suffering civilians. Terrible weapons end terrifying wars.
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