Speaking of Kim Dae-jung's life is quite bumpy, although he escaped this time, but in 1976 he was still found by Park Chung-hee and imprisoned, until 1979 when the dictator Park Chung-hee was killed due to internal strife within the ruling group, and Choi Gyu-ha succeeded him as president, which was released. Later, Chun Doo-hwan staged a military coup d'état, forcing Choi Gyu-ha to step down and become president. On May 17, 1980, Kim Dae-jung was arrested on charges of planning a popular movement in the southern Gwangju region in April of that year and brought to court on charges of 'treason'. In November, Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to death by a military court on charges of 'conspiracy to commit civil unrest'. Under pressure from the United States, Kim Tae-jung was finally sentenced to life imprisonment, 20 years in prison, and suspended sentence, and in 1982, he went into exile in the United States for 'medical treatment', starting his second exile in his life.

It was not until 1998 that he became the president of South Korea, during which he devoted himself to reviving the Korean economy, which had been hit hard by the Asian financial crisis, reforming the Korean economic system, and enabling the successful privatization of enterprises and the transformation of the industrial structure of South Korea. He attached importance to South Korea's relations with Asian countries and improved relations with Japan and China; In 2000, he successfully held bilateral talks between the North and the South, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. (In addition, gossip, some people say that Sun Yue is his goddaughter, I don't know if this is true or not)

What's even more interesting is that in later generations, Japan actually made a movie based on this incident, and the movie was quite good.

The reason why director Junji Sakamoto chose to film the story of Kim Dae-jung is because the entire kidnapping incident took place in Tokyo. Moreover, in the film, he clearly pointed out the relationship between the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the kidnapping incident. Although Japanese officials have always denied any involvement in this incident, in the eyes of the creators, they are inseparable from it in any way.

So, in the movie "Kidnapping Kim Dae-jung". The kidnapping itself was just a pretext, and the director's intention was to talk about Japan's awkward position in the entire Asian political landscape at that time. If you briefly comb through the context of the whole event, you will see a lot of interesting things. A political incident in South Korea has to be resolved in Tokyo. However, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, on the premise of knowing the whole case, would acquiesce in allowing this criminal incident to occur on their own territory. And after acquiescence. They are going to test the kidnappers again under pressure from the United States. It is obviously a crime that happened in Japan, but Japan's identity can only be a bystander, an accomplice, a pawn, and an outsider.

At this point, let's go back to the very beginning of the film. The beginning of the film does not talk about the grievances between Kim Dae-jung and Park Chung-hee, but rewinds time to November 1970, comes to the suicide site of the well-known Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, and asks the protagonist of the film, Hiroshi Sato, to present him with a bouquet of flowers. Think about the reasons for Yukio Mishima's suicide, plus the "226 Incident", "Red Army Incident" and so on mentioned later. You will find that the real appeal of the film is not the shady scene of South Korean politics. It's not just this event. Why did Japan acquiesce to the whole incident taking place in its own country? and the United States, the mastermind behind the scenes, who only hears its voice and does not see its shadow, is what the film wants to explore more.

However, even if it records the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung, this film is also remarkable. The film calmly recounts the whole process of the incident in a documentary way. From Park Chung-hee's planning of a car accident that caused Kim Dae-jung's leg injury, to his unsuccessful murder of Kim Dae-jung many times, to the kidnapping incident in 1973 and the resolution of the crisis. The whole film involves the wrestling of South Korea's Central Intelligence Department, Japan's Self-Defense Forces, Kim Dae-jung, the United States, and even North Korea. When dealing with this incident. The director did not deliberately exaggerate the thriller and tension, and South Korean intelligence officers were not as agile as agents in commercial spy films. Even made a lot of low-level mistakes. The narrative weakens the plot and reduces the spectacle of action, which makes the film a clear line from traditional commercial political thrillers. The creator seems to want to make the audience pay more objective attention to the whole event in this way, so as to reflect on the various interests behind the event.

The early 70s was an era of turbulence in the Asian political arena, and when Kim Tae-chung shouted "democracy first or reunification first," Japan was vigorously clamoring for the Red Army Movement. by it. The kidnapping also served as a window into the political trends of the time in Asia. As a result, we can also learn about Korean nationalism and Japanese militarism in the film. In addition, because this is a film about Japan-South Korea relations, the film also mentions the hostile attitude of South Koreans towards the Japanese and the living conditions of Koreans in Japan, which also gives the film more room for interpretation.

And that's not all. At this time in Japan, there was also a very strange TV series, that is, "Water Margin". In 1967, Japanese cartoonist Mitsuru Yokoyama published a comic of the same name in the magazine "Friends of Hope" that was faithful to the original 120 copies of "Water Margin", which was the first Chinese long-form masterpiece in the Japanese comics industry. also made "Water Margin" popular in Japan. In 1972, Japan and the People's Republic of China normalized diplomatic relations, and the Japanese public's interest in Chinese culture grew.

Because Chinese mainland, which was in the midst of "cultural activities" at that time, had not yet opened up foreign commercial television institutions to enter the country for filming, the scenes of the entire drama were completed in Japan. In addition to the exterior of Liangshanbo, which relied on model special effects, Nippon TV spent 50 million yen to build a Song-song-style scenery street in Japan, and commissioned a large number of Song-song-style costumes and weapons, with a total production cost of 600 million yen (equivalent to 3 billion yen today). Whether it is relative to Shi Nai'an's original work or the comic version of Hengshan Guanghui, the adaptation of the play is very large, such as Lin Chong as the first male protagonist, Lin Chong made a stick (when Hengshan Guanghui was creating the comics, because he failed to master the shape of the Zhangba snake spear, he asked Lin Chong to abandon the gun from the stick), completely deleted the "Wu Shihui", Yizhang Qing appeared from the beginning, Gao Yu mistakenly walked the demon, Lin Chong became the spiritual leader of Liangshan, Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng merged into one person, and so on. This drama is not only a political tribute to the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, but also one of the Taiwan celebration programs of Nippon TV to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the station. (If you are interested, you can go and watch this film, the shape is quite strange, and it definitely challenges your imagination!) (To be continued.) )