Understanding and Choice

Understanding and Choice

1988
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Overview

A documentary produced to disseminate historical truth about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre to international audiences. It records the Shorinji Kempo Organization of Japan’s 40th-anniversary visit to China, but rather than serving as a simple travelogue, it uses the 299 participants’ journey—beginning in Nanjing—as a confrontation with the facts of Japan’s wartime aggression and the choices demanded in the present. Through Chinese filmmakers’ perspectives, testimony, archival images, and narration addressing the Nanjing Massacre, nuclear war, militarization, and historical responsibility, the film asks viewers to reject indifference, self-justification, and the concealment of inconvenient history. It argues that peace cannot remain an abstract ideal or be left to governments and power-seekers; each person must begin from the shared human right to survival, face history honestly, and choose concrete action toward mutual understanding and peace.

Status: Released

Language: ZH

Production Information

Production Companies
Xinhua News Agency
Production Countries
China Japan
Spoken Languages
Mandarin

Quick Facts

Original Title 理解与选择
Release Date August 21, 1988
Status Released
Language ZH

Cast

Key Crew

Chen Jue
Director
Wang Zijun
Director

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