During the demonstrations, the Japanese actors played the banner of "protecting Japanese culture and resisting cultural invasion", I have to say that this reason is the most famous, which is more than "actors also have to eat!" "If we don't raise wages, we won't film", this statement is much more reasonable, which shows that the organizers are still a bit cultural.

The slogan is very high, and the momentum is even more spectacular, claiming that there are 8,000 cast and crew on strike, and the actual number is certainly not that much, but it is true that all the film companies in Tokyo went on strike that day, and no one went to work. In terms of popularity, the leader was Toshiro Mifune, the most popular star in Japan at the time (representative works are the famous "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai", "Red Beard", etc.), and the cheerleaders are all composed of popular actresses from Toho

At this time, Tangning happened to be in Tokyo, adhering to the nature of Chinese, such a lively naturally could not be missed, and under the support of the escort team, he took Russell and Nanako to the door of Toho to watch the excitement

Toho Pictures is the largest film studio in Japan, and his status in Japan is equivalent to China's Shanghai Film Studio or Changchun Film Studio, and other studios such as Kadokawa are also one of the six monopoly manufacturers in Japan.

No government will let this kind of behavior disturb the social order go unchecked, especially since Toho's march was aimed at the cultural aggression of the United States, which was absolutely not allowed to happen during the period when Japan was under American rule. As a result, the Japanese government sent representatives to negotiate as soon as possible, but the two sides could not reach an agreement on the most critical issues at all, and Toho actors demanded that Hollywood films be banned and local films protected; But how dare the government agree to such conditions, so the negotiations reached an impasse.

Repeatedly disagreed. The Japanese government brazenly dispatched the police to suppress it, and the demonstrators also fought back without showing weakness, and for a while, the scene was extremely lively. Because the demonstrators occupied the main factory in Toho, the police were tasked with regaining control of the company's premises, arresting the demonstrators, and dismissing the demonstrators. But the funny thing is that in the midst of the confrontation and conflict between the two sides. The police attacked three times, and on three occasions the demonstrators beat them from the studio and fled back in disarray.

In this case, not to mention outsiders like Downing who watch the excitement, 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 and fluent. A complete defense system was formed.

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 Matsuda Yoshiko'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 Toho Company as having not acted 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.

The commander in it was a guy named Kunio Saito, who was a full-time actor at Toho Pictures in the early days, but in the later stage of the war, due to the lack of soldiers, he was forced to enlist in the army in 1941 (it was a hard recruitment, not a recruitment). At that time, he was a machine gunner of the 63rd Division of the former Japanese Army, and later transferred to the Kwantung Army. He 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 legendary, so to speak, with the help of the Japanese Army Intelligence Office. Successfully transformed by our party's policy, and once made a private release of our party's investigators, interested friends, you can Baidu his information).

Actors like Saito Kunio were reluctant to fight, so not only did they do everything possible to evade military service before the war (for example, Saito Kunio once drank soy sauce for a long time, because it was said that he would fail the physical examination), but also was passive and war-weary on the battlefield, the specific manifestation was to look ahead and backward, rushing left and right (to go left to right is not to move forward), but in any case, they all gained experience in serving in the army and conducting wars, and also absorbed the essence of our party's army's defensive warfare, so it was time to strikeThey organized the defense in a very good and professional way, and using the original facilities of the Dongbao factory, they quickly transformed it into a fortification with barbed wire and barricades.

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. (This chapter borrows some of Mr. Sassou's information, and I would like to express my gratitude!) (To be continued.) )