Chapter 286: "War"

Repeatedly disagreed, the Japanese government brazenly dispatched the police to suppress, and the demonstrators did not show weakness to fight back, for a while, the scene was extremely lively, because the demonstrators occupied the main factory of Toho, so the task of the police was to regain control of the company's location, arrest the leaders of the demonstrations, and dismiss the demonstrators. But the funny thing is that in the confrontation and clashes between the two sides, the police attacked three times, and on three occasions the demonstrators beat them from the studio and fled back in embarrassment.

In this case, not to mention outsiders like Downing, even the police superintendent in charge of this matter was puzzled, and when he inquired about the police who had returned from defeat, he knew that this place was really inaccessible: because a large number of war-themed films were often filmed here for many years, in order to strive for authenticity, the entire studio was crisscrossed and dug trenches, roadblocks were set up at key locations such as intersections, and the barbed wire was as dense as a spider's web, and the actors were also orderly in advance and retreat, and the command was smooth, forming a complete defense system.

Tang Ning was completely stunned at this moment, what happened? Aren't these guys all actors, how can they behave more than the regular army?

Through the understanding of Jerry's spies, Tang Ning realized that the main role in the cast was originally 300 actors who were conscripted into the army during the war, and these people were regarded by Dongbao Company as having stopped acting for several years, their acting skills were rusty, and they had been reduced to idle meals, so they were planning to fire them, which was also a fuse for this strike march.

In the commander is a guy named Saito Kunio, he was a full-time actor in Toho Pictures in the early days, due to the lack of soldiers in the later stage of the war, he was recruited into the army in 1941 (it was a hard recruit not a recruitment), when he was a machine gunner of the 63rd Division of the original Japanese Army, and later transferred to the Kwantung Army sequence, he not only fought with the Celestial Empire army in the stronghold and sweep, but also served as an officer of the brigade intelligence room for a time, and once devoted himself to the study of the chairman's "On Protracted War". In his later years, he served as the president of the Tokyo Children's Manga Association, and also published a book "Army Infantry Manga Story" (if you can find it, I recommend it, it is very fun to draw. In addition, his own experience is also very legendary, it can be said that with the help of the Japanese Army Intelligence Office, he was successfully reformed by our party's policy, and he once made a private release of our party's scouts.

Actors like Kunio Saito were reluctant to fight in the first place, so they not only tried every possible way to evade military service before the war (for example, Kunio Saito once drank soy sauce for a long time, because it was said that he would fail the medical examination...... But in any case, they have gained experience in serving in the army and conducting wars, and they have also absorbed the essence of our party's army's defensive warfare, so when it came to strike, they organized the defense naturally in a decent and professional manner, and quickly transformed it into a fortification with barbed wire and barricades by using the original facilities of the Dongbao factory.

And against these semi-professional soldiers, it was the Japanese police who had no combat experience, so it is natural to imagine what the result would be. In addition, due to the Allied management policy at the time, the whole of Japan was disarmed, and the police were not allowed to carry knives and could only use batons, while the actors had "standard weapons" such as angles and shovels, and they were very military-literate. The final result was that a group of police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department could not subdue a group of rebellious actors, and there was an embarrassing situation of three attacks and three defeats before.

Faced with this embarrassing situation, the police chief in charge of the scene was forced to ask the allies to intervene to suppress it, but unfortunately, the heavily armed US troops could not subdue these protesters without paying the price of blood, because they found that these people did have combat experience and military literacy, and even some tactics were not from the Japanese army, but learned from the Celestial Empire army.

Eventually, the U.S. military had to use heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles to storm the studio, and according to one comedian who participated in the strike, the U.S. military used all the equipment except the warships......

Being able to force the opponent to dispatch tanks, Toho Pictures can be regarded as ushering in a new era in the history of strikes.

Seeing that the U.S. military dispatched such a vicious weapon, the actors naturally stopped resisting and scattered one after another, but their resistance did not stop, the actors withdrew, and it was the turn of the actresses to play at this time. I saw a large number of popular actresses pretending to be village women and performing a "collective crying scene" on the spot, which is said to be of a very high level and tear-jerking.

By this time, the march strike had come to an end. Several of the organizers were taken away by the police and fired afterwards, and the management negotiated with the rest of the cast and promised to increase the pay of the cast and crew, and the matter was barely ended.

In fact, at the beginning of this incident, Dongbao didn't want to use the method of improving the treatment to resolve the dispute, but the first is that this kind of atmosphere must not be promoted, otherwise once the actors' strike is formed, the company will increase the habit of salary, and then there will be no way to manage it, and it must wait for the strike to be suppressed and the organizers are punished, and then slightly increase the treatment of other cast and crew, so as to have an effect. Another reason is because Dongbao really doesn't have much money in his hands now, and the last time he went to Hollywood to buy a movie, he spent too much, and he didn't get much income after he came back to broadcast it, so he had to cut his salary and lay off employees.

Therefore, Dongbao's promise to the cast and crew this time is only to increase the salary after the company's efficiency is better, and everyone needs to tide over the difficulties together for the time being, but everyone naturally refuses to accept such a result, but they also know that a general strike has just been launched, and several leaders have been arrested and imprisoned, and it is difficult to organize again.

Originally, according to Downing's meaning, these diehards who dared to undermine the friendship between the United States and Japan and resist the import of American movies must be severely punished, but before he could make a move, the arrival of a woman changed Downing's decision, speaking of which, everyone may not believe that the woman who made Downing, a captain of the United States Army, was actually a Japanese woman, and she was also a Japanese actress, of course, her identity was not so simple, otherwise Downing would not have given her face like this! (As for the identity of the Japanese actress, everyone is welcome to guess!) Actually, I think it's quite easy to guess)