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Mar 19, 2021 · Tracing Her Shadow: Directed by Peng Fei Song. With Yanshu Wu, Ze Ying, Jun Kunimura, Masatoshi Nagase. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China.
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- Drama
- Peng Fei Song
- 2021-03-19
Apr 2, 2021 · Tracing Her Shadow is based on the true experiences of these war orphans, known as riben yigu (日本遗孤, “Japanese orphans”) or canliu gu'er (残留孤儿, “leftover orphans”) in Chinese. When Japan surrendered, millions of Japanese children were left stranded in China.
Sep 13, 2021 · In a slow-cinema mode, “Tracing Her Shadow” takes its time to narrate a collective story of forgotten people (in Chinese riben yigu “Japanese orphans” or canliu gu'er “leftover orphans”), shadows lingering between two places and two hearts.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China. With the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the 1970s and 1980s, many orphans returned to China, including Lihua, the adopted daughter of Grandma Chen (played by Wu ...
An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
- Song Peng Fei
- Hengye Pictures, Xstream Pictures
Apr 12, 2024 · TRACING HER SHADOW, SONG Peng Fei. An elderly Chinese woman journeys to Nara in search of her daughter, a war orphan whom she adopted in post-WWII China but lost contact with after Japan's repatriation efforts. Joined by her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman, they navigate the complexities of the diasporic community in t...
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Sep 12, 2021 · Tracing Her Shadow, the third feature by Song Pengfei (whose films are credited to just his given name), deals with a relatively little-known historical tragedy: the Japanese “war orphans” of World War II, the children left behind in the Manchurian northeastern region of China when Japanese soldiers and settlers fled the country after Japan ...
