Chapter 285: Yamamoto Fifty-Six

Martin Luther King Jr. was a well-known leader of the American civil rights movement and one of the most prominent advocates of "nonviolence" and "direct action" as methods of social change, with great prestige among black Americans.

On August 28, 1963, he presided over a rally of 250,000 people in Washington, D.C., and then led the crowd through the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Millions of people watched the event, and many still remember it vividly. At the same time, he delivered a memorable speech at that mass meeting -- "I Have a Dream." "This ideal of mine comes mainly from the American dream," he said. I dream of the day when our nation will stand up and truly live its credo, which is that we believe these truths are self-evident and that all men are created equal. The speech was selected as a Chinese textbook. Luther. Kim is also well-known in China.

In fact, this is not the first time he has been assassinated, in the late fifties, he was stabbed in the left chest in a department store, and a bomb was thrown at his church, but this time he did not escape the bad luck, the death of the 39-year-old civil rights leader sent a strong shock through the Golden City of Memphis and the entire United States. Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington ordered 4,000 National Guardsmen to march into the city to keep the law and order. At the same time, a curfew was imposed on residents. 40% of the residents here are black.

The four major cities of Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, and Cincinnati were hit the hardest by arson, looting, and violence.

5,000 federal troops were sent to Chicago to contain the riots. These rioters have wreaked havoc along 28 miles of West Madison Avenue. So far, 11 people have been killed and 300 injured as a result of sniper fire, street fighting and indiscriminate shooting; More than 125 fires have resulted in millions of dollars in property damage.

In Baltimore, five people have died. Governor Spiro Agnew ordered 6,000 National Guardsmen to rush to the heart of the riots. However, the people who looted did not seem to be afraid of the guards. They continued to smash shop windows, loot items en masse, and run away. Police have arrested more than 500 people, including one on suspicion of homicide.

A white graduate student was pulled out of his car and stabbed to death with a knife while trying to drive through a black neighborhood in Cincinnati. Despite the presence of federal forces, groups of black youth set fires. Looting stores. Federal forces eventually suppressed most of the unrest.

In the capital of the United States, 8 people died in the riots. Many areas of Washington have been destroyed into piles of rubble that are still burning. A total of 31 people died in this violent riot across the country.

So Jimmy, a coward who was afraid of death, ran to Guam to hide and relax, planning to wait for things to stabilize before going back, but Tang Ning shook his head and sighed: "How much do you think Japan will stop, I don't believe you go to Tokyo to see, it's also a mess, and a lot of my business is about to go on." ”

Jimmy said: "No, other businesses may be affected. At least your cartoons can't be fine, right, are even children under the age of ten making a fuss now? ”

Tang Ning hesitated for a moment and said: "That's not true, but the current animation market is indeed a bit chaotic, and everyone is a little unsure of the direction." Nowadays, the major companies are basically spoof animation and life comedy genre cartoons. For example, "Goku's Great Adventure" is being shown on Fuji TV, and "ピュンピュン" produced by Toei on NET TV (if I have to translate, I will translate it as biubiu Maru, in fact, this can be regarded as the ancestor of gintama animation). It's a pity that the results are not very good. ”

Jimmy seemed to think of something and said, "No, Tony, I remember that there was a movie in Japan that did very well at the box office recently." What does it seem to be called "Yamamoto Fifty-Six"? ”

Tang Ning nodded: "That's right, this film is very well made." The plot is very real, the scenes are very shocking, Maruyama Makoto is indeed a good director. ”

It's not that Downing is deliberately praising it, because it's really a good film. Maruyama Makoto was very serious when filming this film, and in order to realistically reproduce all the details of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the crew examined many valuable materials from World War II and carefully made a model of Pearl Harbor. It is because of the all-round effort. The film feels real and believable, and the scenes shown are very grand. From the description of this important figure in the history of Japanese warfare, Yamamoto Isoroku, one can peek into some important details of Japan's military and provoke thinking about the war itself. It was the second highest-grossing film in Japan in 1968.

Even the country attaches great importance to this film. It was just a screening as an internal reference, and at that time such "reactionary films" as internal references, such as "Yamamoto Fifty-Six", "Ah, Navy! and "Tiger Tiger" have to be leading cadres above the middle level to be able to watch them with this movie ticket. It is said that after reading it, there will be a meeting to criticize it. The "Admission Rules" specifically emphasize the need to study relevant documents before watching the film, analyze and criticize them after watching it, and even stipulate that "no weapons are allowed to enter the venue". From this, one can imagine the social conditions at that time

And there is also a very real place in the film that shows Yamamoto Isoroku's two personal hobbies. One is a woman who likes to have skills, Shimbashi is a famous place in Japan where art and skills gather, and Yamamoto Isoroku is also a frequent visitor to Shimbashi Festival. Among the artists of Shimbashi, Yamamoto has a very famous nickname: Eighty Money: The origin of this nickname is that the artists of Shimbashi Artists charge 1 yen (100 money) for manicures for prostitutes, which is combined to 10 yen per finger, while Yamamoto only has three fingers on his left hand, of course, it costs 20 yuan less than others, and he only needs to pay 80 yuan each time, and his nickname of 80 yen spread.

Another hobby was gambling, and he was quite skilled, and it is said that he was the second Japanese to be rejected by the Belles de Monaco, and he himself once said that if he was given two years, he could win the cost of building a warship. Another rejection was the Japanese Army general, secret service genius, and the man who financed the 1905 revolution in Russia, Genjiro Akashi, who is said to have played purely on his reflexes and statistical analysis of data. (To be continued.) )