The Fate of Two Strangers

The Fate of Two Strangers
2007.02.14 2:07

Japanese woman Yoshiko Yamaguchi was born in Fushun, China's region Manchuria to Japanese parents in 1920. Later she became famous as Chinese singer known to Li Xianglan. After the war ended, she was caught and interrogated whether she committed the crime of treason, Hanjian, which means Chinese traitor, she was acquitted because she was identified as Japanese.
Aisin Gioro, a woman born in 1907, one of the daughters from the last royal family of Qing dynasty was sent to Japan in her youth, after raised and educated in Japan she was sent back to Shanghai, China and known as Yoshiko Kawashima. This is a Japanese name. She was executed by Kuomintang government in treason or Hanjian in 1948. If she were certified as Japanese, she would be acquitted. She was refused to be identifed as Japanese by Japanese government. She was Manchurian Chinese in linege.
The fate of two stranges was completely opposite. Kawashima vanished in the valley of history. Yamaguchi later became the member of the Upper House and still alive. She's now 86 years old. We are now watching the film of her entire life.