Index

Abe Kōbō, 29

Actors Studio, xxix, 263, 279

Aisin Gioro Pujie. See Pujie

Aisin Gioro Puyi. See Puyi

Aisin Gioro Xianyu. See Kawashima

Yoshiko

Aizawa (intelligence agent), 49–51, 52

Amakasu Masahiko: death, 203, 296n20;

intelligence agents, xxvi; Kawakita

Nagamasa and, 192; as Man’ei

director, xxv, xxvii, 91, 92–94, 95–97,

121, 298n37; meetings, 202–203;

Ōsugi Sakae Incident, xxvii, 91, 92,

94, 193, 318n14; political activity, 92,

193; Shigeki and, 120

Andrews, Julie, 283

Arichi Ichirō, 233, 234

Arthur, Jean, 259

Asahina Takashi, 96, 101, 320n9

Asahi Shimbun, xxviii, 123, 127–128,

129–130, 131–132, 133, 260, 299n45

Asai Takeshi, 177

Atsumi Masako, 74, 84, 138, 143, 144, 153,

154, 171–174, 175, 176, 258

Awaya Noriko, xix, 19, 104, 105, 310n8

Azuma Keizō, 26–27, 28, 51

Bai Guang, xviii, 150, 159–160, 162–163,

167, 326n17

Bai Hong, 217

Bai Juyi, 107

Bai Mei, 73, 76

Bai Yang, 191

Bei Lin, 103, 320–321n14

Beijing: anti-Japanese sentiment, 44,

45, 46–48, 50–51, 58–59; cinemas,

60; demonstrations, 46, 50; films

set in, 98; Forbidden City, 36, 37;

hutongs, 37, 312n4; markets, 53–54,

314n3; parks and lakes, 39, 42,

45, 46–47, 61–62, 201–202, 312n9;

Picai Hutong pigeons, 40; press

conference, 200–201; restaurants,

54, 62, 314n3; schools, 38, 39–40,

44, 45, 50, 51, 61; Tiananmen

Square, 37; train journey to,

32–35; Yamaguchi family in, 241,

250–252; Yamaguchi Yoshiko in,

28, 29, 35–48, 49–54, 58–63,

148–151, 199

Beijing Opera, 18, 95, 206–207

Beltramelli, Yoshiko, 259

Benedict, Ruth, 108–109

Berlin Film Festival, 273

Bernhard, Joseph, 264

Blood of Arms and Heart of Wisdom

(Tiexie huixin; Japanese title,

Utsukushiki gisei), 77

Bogarde, Dirk, 274

Bogart, Humphrey, 274

Booth, Robert H., 277

Boyer, Charles, 137, 323n5

Brancusi, Constantin, 273

Brynner, Yul, xxix, 264–265, 339n13

Bu Wancang, 188–189, 193, 197, 331n17,

332n22, 335n21

Buck, Pearl, 265–266, 278

Buruma, Ian, The China Lover, xviii

345

346

Index

Cai Chusheng, 28, 191, 330n9, 331n11

“Candy Peddling Song, The” (Maitang-ge),

197–198, 212, 213

Canon, Jack, and Canon Unit, 276–277

Capra, Frank, 259

Chagall, Marc, 273

Changchun Film Studio (Changchun

Dianying Zhipian’chang), 73, 74, 75–76

Chang’e Flies to the Moon (Chang’e

benyue), 207

Chaplin, Charlie, xxix, 267–269, 273, 278,

300n51, 340n19

Chaplin, Oona, 268, 273, 340n19

Chen Bo’er, 191

Chen Gexin, 212, 213, 214

Chen Gongbo, 231, 233, 335n1

Chen Yanyan, 207, 231

Chen Yunchang: fame, xxv, 196–197; fi lms,

189, 193, 194, 195, 197, 207, 332n18;

Japanese ship visit, 196–197; Li

Xianglan and, 195, 299n43; treason

charges, 231

Cheung, Jacky (Cheung Hok-yau), xviii,

xx, 294n7

Chiang Kai-shek, 152, 154, 171, 231, 275,

325n3. See also Kuomintang

Chiba Sachiko, 179, 328n13

China: anti-Japanese resistance, 32–33, 43,

44, 45–46, 50, 160, 199–200; antiJapanese sentiment, 194, 195, 196, 199;

atrocities in, xlviii, 10–13; Baoding

Military Academy, 187; collaborators

with Japanese, 20–21, 42–43, 231,

310n5, 312n8; cultural differences

from Japan, xlv–xlvi, 44, 53, 90–91;

currency reform, 34; end of, 230–231;

fi lm audiences, xvii–xviii, xxii–xxiii,

xlii, 95–96, 100; fi lms, 18, 188–189,

193–194; foot-binding, 18, 41;

Japanese writers on, xlvii–xlix;

opium, xxii–xxiii, 43–44, 197–198,

332n19; Opium War, 193, 194. See also

Beijing; Shanghai

“China Nights” (Shina no yoru), 101, 102,

126

China Nights (Shina no yoru): audiences,

xvii, xxii, xxxviii–xxxix, 100;

characters, xxxiv–xxxvi, 303–

304nn77–80, 304nn82–83; Chinese

title, 99, 100, 303n75, 319n6; violence

scene, xxxvii, xxxviii–xxxix, l,

99–100; fi lming, 88, 98, 108, 109, 134,

191, 303n75; music, xvii, 102, 105–108,

109, 303n76; plot, xxxv–xxxvii,

xxxix–xl, xlix, 319n2; as propaganda,

xxxvi–xxxviii, xxxix–xl; screenwriter,

xl–xli; script, xxiii, xli; success, 98,

106, 303n75; used to train U.S.

intelligence officers, 108–109

Chinese Communist Party, 45–46, 171,

173, 205

Chinese language: Beijing dialect, 18, 52,

71; learning, 2, 3–5, 16–17, 18, 21, 39;

proficiency in, 21, 50, 75, 295n12;

Shanghainese accent, 197, 332n22

Chorus of Prayer (Chikai no gasshō), 199

Cixi, Empress Dowager, 61, 62, 162, 326n19

Columbia Recordings, 103, 104–105, 121,

122, 211

Communism: in Japan, 319n23; U.S.

blacklist, xxix, 273–276. See also

Chinese Communist Party

“Comrades” (Sen’yū), 175

Conference on the Alliance of Continental

Films (Tairiku Eiga Renmei Kaigi),

192, 193

continental trilogy (tairiku sanbusaku),

xxxiv, xlii, 88–90, 98, 99–101. See also

China Nights; Pledge in the Desert;

Song of the White Orchid

Cooper, Gary, 274

cultural traitors (wenhua hanjian),

231–233. See also treason trials

Dai’ei, 182, 189, 262, 319–320n7, 329n23

Date Munekatsu, 184, 291

Dean, James, xxix, 278–280

De Havilland, Olivia, 274

Diet, Upper House, Ōtaka Yoshiko as

member, xxx, 111, 243, 301n58

Dietrich, Marlene, 264, 297n26

DiMaggio, Joe, 264

Ding Jin, 187, 330n4

Dmytryk, Edward, 274

Index

Doihara Kenji, 20, 310n5, 310n9, 318n15

Dong’laishun restaurant, 54, 62, 314n3

Dongxinglou restaurant, 54, 55–56, 58, 59,

151

“Drinking Song, The” (La Traviata), 126,

197, 214

Du Hanxing, 67

Du Yuesheng, 247

Duan Qirui, 187

Durbin, Deanna, 126, 197

Duus, Peter, xlvii

Eames, Charles, 268

Eastern Hebei Anti-Communist

Autonomous Committee, 41, 46

Ed Sullivan Show, 283

Elim, Nina, 242–243

Endō Homare, 183

Engelhardt, Nina, 179

Enomoto Ken’ichi, 98, 319n1

Escape at Dawn (Akatsuki no dassō), xxix,

262, 297, 300n49, 304n81, 316n14,

339n9

Etō Shinkichi, 29

“Evening Primrose, The” (Yelaixiang),

xviii, 103, 210, 211–212, 215–216, 217,

238, 255–256, 293n2

“Farewell Blues” (Wakare no burūsu),

104–105, 310n8

“Farewell Shanghai” (Saraba Shanhai), 103

Fengtian, 293n4; birth in, 1; history, 6, 15–16;

Russian exiles, 16, 22–25, 218–219,

242–243; schools, 21, 29–30, 244;

Yamaguchi family move to, 13–14,

22–23; Yamato Hotel, 25–26, 311n17

Fengtian Broadcasting Station, xxxiv,

26–28, 51, 63

Field Army Orchestra (Yasen gungakutai),

202

Fighting Street, The (Tatakai no machi), 199

films. See propaganda films; and individual

studios and titles

First Love Hullabaloos (Hatsukoi mondō),

262

Foghorn (Muteki), 272, 277

Fonda, Henry, 274

347

Fragrant Concubine, The (Xiangfei), 207

Freiberg, Freda, xli

Fuji Television, xxx, 285, 341n32

Fujiura Kō, 104, 212, 293n2

Fujiwara Kamatari, 77, 98, 304n80,

304n82, 319n4

Fujiwara no Kamatari, 98, 319n4

Furukawa Roppa, 79

Furukawa Taikō, 155–156

Furukawa Takahisa, xxxviii

Furumi Tadayuki, xxvii, 94

Fushimizu Osamu, 98, 105, 106, 107, 108,

109. See also China Nights

Fushun: bandit attacks, 6–9; coal mines, 1,

6–9; schools, 1, 6; Yamaguchi family

in, 1–14

Gandhi, Indira, 273

Ganjuurjab, 59, 314n8

Gao Zhanfei, 193, 194, 332n18

German fi lms, 90, 93, 190, 210

Gershwin, George, 209, 214

Glory to Eternity (Wanshi liufeng;

Japanese rendering, Bansei ryūhō),

xxxiv, 96, 193; cast, 193–194, 195,

196–197, 332n18; critical reception,

198–199, 333n25; fi lming, 159, 197;

meaning to Chinese audiences,

xxii–xxiii; popularity, 197, 199; songs,

xxii, 197–198, 295n14

“Going Out to Sea” (Umi yukaba), 174, 177,

327n7

Gomikawa Junpei, 243, 336n2

Green Gang (Qingbang), 247–248

Gurinets, Liuba Monosova: character

modeled after, 180; death, 336–337n4;

departure from Fengtian, 29, 245;

family register obtained by, 249,

250–252; friendship, 22–23, 24, 27,

29–31, 218–219, 221–222, 336–337n4;

in Harbin, 223; languages spoken, 22,

25, 220; postwar life, 241–242, 243,

245–246, 336–337n4; in Shanghai,

218–219, 220, 221–222, 240–241,

244–245

Gurinets family, 22, 23, 218–219, 220,

241–242, 244, 245

348

Index

Hakata: harbor, 258; hotels, 151, 153–155

Hammerstein, Oscar, 265

hanjian (traitors), 231, 233. See also treason

trials

Hara Setsuko, xxv, 77

Hara Ken’ichirō, 97

Harbin, xxxiii–xxxiv, xlii–xliv, xlviii,

178–185

Harbin Opera Troupe, 178, 179

“Harmony among the Five Races”

(gozoku kyōwa), l, 27, 63, 66, 75, 86,

95, 181, 311n20

Hasegawa Kazuo, xlv–xlvi, 86, 87–88, 272,

317n12. See also China Nights;

continental trilogy; Song of the

White Orchid

Hasegawa Shun, 94, 318n18

Hashimoto Shinobu, xli

Hattori Ryōichi, 211; career, 109;

concerts, 225–226; “Farewell Blues,”

104–105; fi lm scores, xvii, 101–102,

178, 208; interest in jazz, 216; Li

Xianglan performances and,

208–209, 210, 213–214, 215, 217;

repatriation to Japan, 238; “Suzhou

Serenade,” 107–108; travel in China,

106–107

Hattori Tomiko, xxxv, 208–209

Hayashi Fusao, xlvii, 18, 308n129

Hazumi Tsuneo, xxxix, 191, 208

He Yingqin, 230–231

He Zhongshan, 231

Heavenly Bliss (Tianshang renjian), 273

Hepburn, Katherine, 274

High, Peter B., xxxvii, 305n97

Hijikata Yoshi, 259, 260, 338n4

Hilton, James, Lost Horizon, 281

Himeda Yoshirō, 191, 238, 336n6

Hino Ashihei, Wheat and Soldiers (Mugi

to heitai), 170, 327n6

Hirata Ryōei, 191

Hiro, Madame, 111–112, 113, 114, 117, 118,

294n8, 322n6

Hirohito, Emperor, 222, 226, 228, 337n2

Holden, William, xxix

Homecoming (Kikoku), 164, 262, 300n50

Hon’ami Kōetsu, xliii

Honeymoon Express (Miyue kuaiche;

Japanese rendering, Mitsugetsu

kaisha), xxiv, xxxiv, 67–69

Hong Kong, xxix, 205, 206, 241–242. See

also Shaw Brothers

Hoshino Naoki, 94

House of Bamboo (Tokyo ankokugai), 167,

278, 279, 281, 300n51

House Un-American Activities

Committee, 273, 274

Huabei Dianying (North China Film

Studio), 96, 186, 188, 192

Huang Jiamo, 320–321n14

Huang Jinrong, 247

Huaying. See Zhonghua Dianying

Human Condition, The (Ningen moyō),

164, 262

Ichiji Susumu, 189

Ikari Miyako, 29–31, 244

Ikebe Ryō, xxix, 18, 262

Ikeda Shinobu, xlvi

Ikeda Tadasu, 179, 181, 185

Imai Tadashi, xl, 182, 328–329n20

Inagaki Hiroshi, 272

Inokuma Gen’ichirō, 269

Inoue Masao, 261

Ishigaki Ayako, 265–266, 276, 339n15

Ishigaki Eitarō, xxix, 265–266, 276,

339n15

Ishii Baku, 71, 315n7

Ishimitsu Makiyo, 184

Itagaki Seishirō, xxvi, 318n15

Itō Hisao, 102, 106

Itō Noe, xxvii, 91, 318n14

Iwabuchi, Rear Admiral, 146, 147

Iwasaki Akira: assault on, 258–259; fi lm

criticism, 190; fi lms produced, 97,

110, 178, 181–182, 183, 184, 195, 259,

337n2; imprisonment, xl, 90, 110, 182;

Kawakita and, 189–190, 195; life of,

190, 317n13; at Man’ei’s Tokyo office,

xxvi, 90, 97, 120; in postwar Japan,

258–259; relationship with

Yamaguchi, 90, 110–111, 195, 202,

301n58; in Shanghai, 190–191;

writings, 190, 330n9

Index

Japan: Allied occupation, 108–109,

139–140, 167, 276–277, 338n7; atomic

bombings, 225, 226; fi lm audiences,

xvii, xlii, xliv–xlv; fi rst visit by

Yamaguchi, 79–80, 81–83;

imperialism, xxx–xxxiii, xxxvi, xl,

xlvi–xlvii, 89; Interior Ministry,

98–99, 104, 184; prewar fi lms, 18;

relations with China, 285–286;

relations with Soviet Union, 136,

219–222; views of foreigners, xlvi–

xlix, 81–82, 307n119; writers, 77–80

Japanese-Manchurian Friendship: Li

Xianglan as singing ambassadress,

xxii, xxv, 66, 120–130; Man’ei’s

mission, 63, 81, 95; radio program, 27;

songs celebrating, 102. See also

propaganda

Japanese military: China Expeditionary

Army, 220, 230; intelligence, xxi,

183–184, 329n23; Kawashima

Yoshiko and, 151–153; Matsumoto

Regiment, 59, 149, 158; medical

trains, 176–177; navy, 137, 138–139,

174, 196–197, 207; Nomonhan

Incident, 141–142; North China

Army, 152–153, 158; performances

for, 101, 104, 105, 227–228; Special

Attack Unit, 115–116. See also Pacific

War; Second Sino-Japanese War

Japanese military, Press Division: in

Beijing, 148, 158–159; censors, 100,

104, 184, 220, 302n71; in Nanjing, 159;

in Shanghai, 100, 189, 206, 208, 209,

219–220, 224, 225, 226–227, 228;

Yamaga and, 51–52, 148, 158–161. See

also propaganda

Japanese Red Army, xxx, 285, 341n33

Japanese War Bride (Higashi wa higashi),

264, 265, 268, 269, 281, 300n51, 340n28

Ji Pengfei, 285

Jin Bidong, 92

Jin Bihui. See Kawashima Yoshiko

Kaifeng, 169–171, 172, 200, 327n1, 327n4

Kamei Fumio, xl, 300n49, 329n20, 337n2

Kamikichi Seiichi, xxvii

349

Kamisaka Fuyuko, 155

Kasagi Shizuko, 216

Katō Tai, 96, 318n22

Katō Yoshi, 260

Kawabata Ryūshi, 116

Kawakita Daijirō, 187, 330n4

Kawakita Kashiko, 186, 190, 192, 223, 233,

258, 269

Kawakita Kazuko, 187, 223, 233, 258

Kawakita Nagamasa: Amakasu and, 192;

in Beijing, 223; Chinese fi lmmakers

and, xxiv, 189; concerts, 213; family,

187; fi lms, 150, 191, 194, 198, 207;

Iwasaki and, 189–190, 195; in Japan,

271; Kamakura house, 258, 259, 276,

296n21, 337n1; Mei Lanfang and,

206; in New York, 282; overseas

connections, xxix; in relocation

camp, 233–234, 235, 237–238, 241,

246, 248–250, 252; repatriation to

Japan, 253–256, 258; rumored

assassination plot, 192–193; Shanghai

apartment, 225, 229–230; Soviet fi lm

distribution, 220; Tōhō Tōwa Film

Company, 186; at wedding, 269;

Zhang and, 191, 206, 296n21; at

Zhonghua Dianying, 96, 186, 187–188,

202, 207, 208, 221, 233, 296n21. See

also Tōwa Trading Company

Kawashima Naniwa, 4, 55, 156–157, 158,

326n13

Kawashima Yoshiko: adoptive father,

55, 156–157, 326n13; assassination

order, 151–153; brother, 92; Chinese

nationality, 56, 156–157; clothing, 56,

57; death and funeral, 155–156,

325n11; deportation, 152; Dongxinglou,

54, 55–56, 58, 59, 151; Li Xianglan

and, xviii, 54–58, 59–61, 149–150,

153–155; marriage, 59, 314n8; play and

fi lm on, 55, 294n8; political activity,

58, 92, 151–152, 154; treason trial, 155,

156–157, 232, 236; Yamaga and, 54, 59,

148–151, 154, 158, 162

Kazan, Elia, xxix, 263

Kikushima Ryūzō, xli

Kim Il-sung, 199

350

Index

Kimura Chiio, xxxviii, xli

Kimura Sotoji, 73, 96, 318n21

Kirishima Noboru, 108

Kiritachi Noboru, 77

Kishi Nobusuke, xxvii, 92, 94

Kishida Kunio, 78

Kitabayashi Tanie, 260

Kitaōji Rosanjin, 166, 269, 280, 326n20,

340n21

Kobayashi Hideo, xlviii–xlix, 307–

308nn126–129

Kodama Eisui, 122–124, 125, 126, 127, 130,

133, 136, 141–147

Kodama Yoshio, 277, 340n27

Koga Masao, 68, 102–103, 107, 122,

306n108, 319n5, 320n10

Kogure Michiyo, xliii

Koide Takashi, 209, 213, 230, 233, 235, 237,

253–255

Koizumi Jun’ichirō, xxx

Komaki Masahide, 209, 213

Kon Hidemi, 146, 147, 324n16

Kondaibō Gorō, 191, 208

Kondō Iyokichi, 70–71, 81

Konoe Fumimaro, 138, 139, 140, 222, 323n1

Konoe Toshiaki, xliii

Korea, xlvii, 199, 240, 307n119

Korean War, 264, 274

Kubo Makoto, 10, 11

Kumagai Hisatora, 68

Kume Kyōko, 11–12

Kume Masao, 78–79, 88, 90, 320n8

Kuno Kentarō, 9

Kuomintang (Nationalist Party): army,

170, 230–231, 235–236; civil war, 46;

government, 10, 34, 41, 246–248. See

also Chiang Kai-shek; treason trials

Kuroi Jun, 178–179, 181, 182, 328n12

Kurosawa Akira: fi lms, xxix, 165, 262,

319n4, 338n5, 338n6, 338n8;

screenplays, xl–xli, 262, 304n81,

305n98

Kusabue Keizō, 115

Kusakari Yoshito, 209, 213

Kwantung Army: agreements with

Chinese, 41; censors, 184, 302n71;

Fushun garrison, 9, 10; intelligence,

xix, xxv, 183–184; Li Jichun and,

20–21; Man’ei and, xxvi–xxvii; Puyi

and, 113, 117; Soviet defeat of, 142;

Xinjing headquarters, 72

Last Embrace (Hōyō), 272

League of Nations, 10, 12

Li Jichun, xx, 2–3, 17–18, 19–21, 28, 310n5

Li Jinguang, 211–212, 215, 217, 293n2, 334n9

Li Lihua, 207, 231

Li Lili, 191, 320n14

Li Ming, 76, 93–94, 150, 151, 154, 159–160,

162, 231

Li Wenda, 113

Li Xianglan: adoption of name, xx, 3, 20;

apology to Chinese, xxiv, 201, 202,

253; execution rumors, 238, 239, 248,

251; rumors about, xviii–xix; spying

allegations, 275–277; spying proposal,

246–248, 275; as stage name, xix–

xxii, 20, 28, 75, 134–135; treason

suspicions and investigation, xix,

xxviii–xxix, 98, 229, 232–233,

234–235, 236, 238, 239–241, 246–253;

treason trial, 99, 252–253, 255. See

also national identity; Ri Kōran;

Yamaguchi Yoshiko

Li Xianglan, fi lm career: acting lessons

from Hasegawa, xlv–xlvi, 87–88;

beginning, xxxiv, 62–64, 65–66; as

Chinese gu’niang, xliv–xlvi, 83, 85,

299n41; decisions, xxiv, 287–288;

fame, xviii, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxix,

xxxiv, xlv, 130; fan club, 94–95, 114;

fans, xx, xxi, xxii, 124–133, 135–136;

first fi lm, xxxiv, 67–69; image, xxi–

xxii, xlv–xlvii, xlix–l; in Japan, xlix,

76, 83–85, 90–91; with Man’ei, xxv–

xxvi, xxvii–xxviii, 62–64, 65–67,

73–75, 148, 169, 299n41; political

context, xxi–xxiii, xxiv, xxv, l–li;

publicity, xlv, 85–86, 90, 299n41; as

puppet, xxii, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, xxxi,

266–267, 301n63; screen persona, xxi,

xlv, l; screen test, 66–67; in Shanghai,

207–219. See also propaganda fi lms;

and individual films

Index

Li Xianglan, singing performances:

Fengtian recital, 25–26; in fi lms, xxi,

101–103; for Japanese troops, 101, 104;

at Nichigeki, xxii, xxviii, 80, 83, 91,

120–130, 132, 133, 295n16; for Puyi’s

court, 111–112; on radio, xxxiv, 26–28;

recordings, xviii, xxi, xlv, 102, 103,

104, 121, 122, 212; “Rhapsody of the

Evening Primrose,” 209–211, 213–218,

223, 225–226; as singing

ambassadress, xxii, xxv, 66, 120–130

Li Yuqin, 119

Li Yushi, 179

Liang Leyin, 197, 212, 332n23

Liang Xifu, 13

Liberal Democratic Party, xxx, 301n58

Lin Zexu, xxii, 193, 194, 198

Liu Enjia, 76, 77

Liu, Major General, 236–238

Liu Xue’an, 213, 293n2, 320–321n14

Lockheed Scandal, 277, 340n27

“Longing for Brother” (Sōkeifu), 102

Lu Xun, xlix, 190, 207, 317n13, 330n9

Ma Zhanshan, 8, 237, 308n3

MacArthur, Douglas, 146

Madame White Snake (Byakufujin no

yōren), 18, 281, 344

“Mad World, The” (Fengkuang shixie),

217–218, 335nn21–22

Makino Masahiro, 272

Makino Mitsuo, 63, 64, 67–68, 78, 193

Makino Shōzō, 68

Manchuria (Manchukuo): anti-Japanese

resistance, 6–10, 11–12, 13, 33,

308–309n3; bandits, 6–9;

discrimination against Chinese, 75;

fi lms set in, xvii, xxxiii–xxxiv,

xlii–xliv, 178–185; intelligence agents,

xxvi, 182–184, 297n22, 298n34;

Japanese rule, xxi, xxxi–xxxiii;

Japanese settlers, xvii, xxxi–xxxii,

77–78, 301–302n64; Pingdingshan

Incident, 10–13, 309n5, 309n7; police,

xxvi–xxvii; Soviet invasion, 117, 203,

226; symbolism, xxxii–xxxiii, l. See

also Fengtian; Fushun; Harbin;

351

Japanese-Manchurian Friendship;

Kwantung Army; Puyi; Russian

exiles; Xinjing; Yamaguchi Yoshiko,

early life

Manchurian Film Association. See

Man’ei

Manchurian Incident, 6, 13, 15, 179

Man’ei (Manchurian Film Association):

Chinese actors, 70–71, 73–77, 91,

93–94, 150; contracts, 69, 202–203;

directors, 91–94, 95–97; dissociation

from, xxiv, xxv–xxvi, 296n20;

employees, xxvi, xxvii, 70–71, 73–74,

93; establishment, xxvi, 51, 62; joint

productions, 77, 78–79, 83; Kwantung

Army and, xxvi–xxvii; Li Xianglan’s

career with, xxv–xxvi, xxvii–xxviii,

62–64, 65–69, 73–75, 148, 169, 299n41;

mission, xxvii, xxxiii, 62–63, 95–96,

298n37; period fi lms, 86, 95, 193;

publicists, xxi–xxii, xxv, xlv, 84–85,

90, 96; Tōhō and, 120–121; Tokyo

office, xxvi, 90, 97, 120–121;

unreleased fi lms, xxxiii–xxxiv, 178,

184, 302–303n73; Xinjing office, 69,

73, 91, 93; Xinjing studio, 66–67,

69–71, 73, 75–76, 77–78. See also

propaganda fi lms

Manshū Eiga Kyōkai. See Man’ei

Mantetsu. See South Manchurian Railway

Company

March, Fredric, 274

Marco Polo, 264, 300n51

Martin, Mary, 283

Martin, Tony, 264

Masui Kōichi, 38, 231

Matsu Akira, 55

Matsudaira Akira, 103, 106

Matsuoka Ken’ichirō, 135–141, 143

Matsuoka Yōsuke: career, 12, 309n6;

death, 140; as foreign minister, 136,

137, 138, 140, 152, 154, 309n6; health,

138, 139–140; war crimes trial, 140

Matsuura Takeo, 96

Ma-Xu Weibang, 193, 331–332n17

Mazel, Bella, 221, 223, 226, 243, 263, 264,

275

352

Index

McCarthyism, 274, 340n24

Mei Lanfang, 206–207, 333n3, 334n7

Mei Xi, 231

Meng Hong, 76, 81, 82–83

Metter, Emmanuel, 101, 209, 320n9

Mifune Toshirō, xxix, 165, 262, 272

Mikami Ryōzō, 121–122, 142–143

Mi’ne, Dick (Kōichi), 99, 319n5

Mitchell, Cameron, xxix, 300n51

Miura Tamaki, 120, 123, 126, 326n17

Miyagi Yotoku, 276

Miyajima Daihachi, 4

Miyako Shimbun, xxvii, 133–134, 299n45

Miyazawa Kiichi, 121, 133, 323n3

Mizoguchi Kenji, 190

Mizuhara Hiroshi, 115

Mochizuki Yūko, 260

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 222

Monkey’s Journey to the West, The

(Songokū), 98

“Moon over the Castle Ruins, The” (Kōjō

no tsuki), 26, 83, 224

Mori, Colonel, 220, 221–222

Mori Iwao, 90, 178, 271

Mori Keijirō, 318n14

Mori Masayuki, xxix, 259, 260, 261,

338n5

Morishige Hisaya, 27, 311n19

Morishima Morito, 10

Mulan Joins the Army (Mulan congjun),

188–189, 194, 195, 330n6

Mushanokōji Saneatsu, xl

musicals: Broadway, 259, 264, 265,

281–283; European, 179, 181–182. See

also My Nightingale

Mutō Tomio, 92

“My Nightingale” (Solovej moj) , 178,

179

My Nightingale (Watashi no uguisu): cast,

178, 179, 181, 182; fi lming, xxv,

180–181, 182–183, 199, 240; not

released, xxxiii–xxxiv, 184, 302n71;

plot, 178–179; producer, 97, 110, 178,

181–182, 184; rediscovery, xxxiv, 184,

302–303n73; screenplay, 178, 179;

stage recreation, 208; theme song,

178

My Old Kentucky Home (Kentakkī hōmu),

259

Mysterious Beauty (Shenmi meiren), xxx

Nagata Tsuneo, 103

Nakagawa Makizō, 208, 209, 210, 214, 223

Nakano School (Rikugun Nakano

Gakkō), 183, 329n23

Nakazono Eisuke, 213

Nanjing, Treaty of, 193

national identity, Li Xianglan/Yamaguchi

Yoshiko: in childhood, 2; confl icts,

xxiii–xxiv, 44–45, 46–48, 50–51,

78, 200–203; facial features and,

239–240; guilt for deception, 199;

Japanese identity concealed, xxi–

xxii, xxvii–xxix, 75, 127, 134, 199;

news stories on Japanese identity,

133–135, 299n45; presented as

Chinese, xxi–xxiv, xxv, xxvii–xxix,

83, 85–86, 266–267, 296n18; proving

Japanese identity, xxix, 239–241,

248–253, 271; rumors about, xxii, 85;

seen as Chinese, xxviii, xxxix,

xlvi–xlvii, 75, 79, 88–90, 135, 197,

299n42; self-image as Chinese, 50,

75, 91; suspected to be Japanese,

xxviii, 74–75, 195, 197, 299n43; as

teenager, 49–51, 52, 56; treason issue,

234–235, 247; visits to Japan as

Chinese woman, xxv, 79–80, 81–83,

90–91, 133–134; wish to reveal

Japanese identity, xxii, 200–201,

202–203, 207–208, 229–230

Nationalists, Chinese. See Kuomintang

national policy fi lms (kokusaku eiga),

xxvii, xxxiv–xl, 62–63, 95, 186, 192.

See also continental trilogy;

propaganda fi lms

Natsukawa Shizue, 260

Negishi Kan’ichi, 68, 78, 97, 177

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 273

Netke-Löwe, Margarete, 259

New Village Movement (atarashiki mura),

xl, 305n95

Nichigeki Incident, 120–130, 131–133,

322n14

Index

Nichigeki Theater (Nihon Gekijō): movies

shown, 87, 123; opening, 316–317n5;

performances, xxii, xxviii, 80, 83, 91,

120–130, 132, 133, 295n16; staff, 141,

142–143

Night of Romantic Love, A (Yiye Fengliu),

xxx, 300n54

Niwa Fumio, 75, 79, 80, 316n16

Nogami Yaeko, 133, 323n2

Noguchi Hisamitsu: musical

performances and, 209, 213, 214, 216;

posters, 210–211; in relocation camp,

233, 235, 236, 238, 239; repatriation

to Japan, 253–255; in Shanghai, 191,

208, 210–211, 223–224, 225, 230

Noguchi, Isamu: career, 272, 278, 280;

death, 341n30; divorce, 280–281, 284;

in Japan, 269, 280; marriage, xxix,

166–167, 267, 269, 273, 274, 277–278,

280–281; meeting, 265, 266–267;

sculpture, 266, 267, 272

Noguchi Yonejirō, 266, 339–340n17

Nomonhan Incident, 141–142

North Korea, 199. See also Korea

Ogawa Heikichi, 121

Oguni Hideo, xl–xli, 305n98

Ōhira Masayoshi, 285

Okamura Yasuji, 230

Ōkōchi Denjirō, 103

Onodera Naosuke, 119

opera: Beijing, 18, 95, 206–207; Western,

23, 26, 126, 226, 259

opium, xxii–xxiii, 43–44, 118, 161, 197–198,

332n19

Opium War, 193, 194

Osaragi Jirō, xxxiii, 178, 182

Ōsugi Sakae, xxvii, 91, 92, 94, 193, 205,

305n95, 318n14

Ōtaka Hiroshi, xx, xxx, 282–284, 341n31

Ōtaka Yoshiko. See Yamaguchi Yoshiko

Ōtani Toshio, 68, 69, 77

Ozaki Shirō, The Theater of Life (Jinsei

gekijō), 121, 322n11

Pacific War: American victories, 207,

208, 245; Japanese defeat, 223–224,

353

226–231; Pearl Harbor attack,

130; in Philippines, 145–147, 207,

208

Pan Shuhua, xx, 3, 38, 49. See also

Yamaguchi Yoshiko, early life

Pan Yugui: as adoptive father, 21, 29, 38,

58; friendship with Yamaguchi

Fumio, 2–3; household, 38–39, 40, 41,

43–44, 49–51, 52–53, 54–55; life of, 38,

42–43, 312n8; political activity, 38, 41,

42–43, 46, 49; as Tianjin mayor, 38,

43, 44, 49, 50, 54–55; wives, 41, 43–44,

52–53, 54–55, 57

Passionate Mermaid, The (Jōnetsu no

ningyo), 164, 262

Peck, Gregory, 274

Pedrov, Madame, 28, 52

Philippines, 144–147, 207

Piaf, Édith, xxix, 263, 339n11

Pingdingshan Incident, 10–13, 309n5,

309n7

Pledge in the Desert (Nessa no chikai),

xxxiv, xlii, 88, 98, 102–103

Plum in the Golden Vase, The (Jin Ping

Mei), xxx, 332n18

Podlesov, Madame, 23–27, 28, 52, 221, 275

Popular Art Troupe (Minshū Geijutsu

Gekijō), 260–261, 338n5

propaganda, xxi, 196–197. See also

Japanese military, Press Division

propaganda fi lms: Chinese audiences,

xxii–xxiii, xlii, 100; Chinese

characters, 100; interracial or

transnational romances, xxxiv, xli–

xlii, xlvi, 98; Japanese actors playing

Chinese roles, xxxvi, xli, xlii, 304n83;

Japanese audiences, xlii, xliv–xlv; Li

Xianglan’s guilt for, xxii, xxiii–xxiv,

xxxi, 197, 287–288; messages, l–li,

298n37; national policy, xxvii,

xxxiv–xl, 62–63, 95, 186, 192; songs,

100–101, 102, 196–198. See also

continental trilogy; Man’ei; and

individual films

Pu Ke, 73, 74, 76, 77, 315–316n12

Pujie (Aisin Gioro Pujie), 111–112, 113, 114,

117–118, 322n6

354

Index

Puyi (Aisin Gioro Puyi): autobiography,

113, 117, 118; health, 116–117; interest

in, 113; Japan visits, 120; Li Jichun

and, 20; as Manchurian emperor,

32–33, 111–112; performance for, 111–112;

smuggled to Manchuria, 92, 193, 310n5,

318n15; wife and concubines, 59,

118–119, 322n8; Yoshioka and, 113, 115,

116–117, 118–119

Qi Baishi, 37, 312n5

radio. See Fengtian Broadcasting Station

rashamen fi lms, xli, xlv, 306n102

Reagan, Nancy Davis, 274

Reagan, Ronald, 274

“Red Water Lilies” (Akai suiren), 102–103,

126

Resurrection (Tolstoy), 259–260, 275, 316n15

Retribution of the Vengeful Spirit

(Yuanhun fuchou; Japanese

rendering, Enkon fukkyū), 69

“Rhapsody of the Evening Primrose,”

209–211, 213–218, 223, 225–226

Ri Kōran: “death,” 258; Japanese

performances, xxviii, 80, 83, 91,

295n16; publicity, 85; use of name, xx.

See also Li Xianglan; Nichigeki

Incident; Yamaguchi Yoshiko

Ri Kōran: Watashi no hansei, xx, 257, 294n10

Robinson, Edward G., 274

Rogers, Richard, 265

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 265

Ruan Ling’yu, 191, 330–331nn10–11, 331n17

Russian exiles: in Fengtian, 16, 22–25,

218–219, 242–243; in Harbin, xxxiii–

xxxiv, xlviii, 179–180, 181–183; in

Hong Kong, 241–242; in Manchuria,

178–180. See also Gurinets family;

Soviet Union

Russian folk songs, 24–25, 221, 265

Russo-Japanese War, 15, 71, 142, 187

Ryan, Robert, xxix, 278, 300n51

Saeki Takao, 212, 293n2

Saga Hiro, 117, 322n6. See also Hiro,

Madame

Saga Sanetō, 111

Saiapin, Grigorii, 179, 183

Saijō Yaso, 102, 103, 107, 320n10

Saitō Aiko, 96

Sakaguchi Ango, Snowstorm (Fubuki

monogatari), xxxii

Sakane Tazuko, 73–74

Sano Shūji, xxxiv, xliii, 303n75

Sasakawa Ryōichi, 151, 152–153, 154, 156,

325n5

Sasaki Kō, xliii, 195, 306n108

Satō Hachirō, 68, 306n108, 320n8

Satō Masami, 128–129, 141, 142, 143

Satō Naotake, 222

Satō Tadao, xxxiii, xli–xlii, xliv, 89–90,

182, 186, 193, 299n42, 302n72

Saturday Angel, The (Doyōbi no tenshi), 277

Sawachi Hisae, 12

Sawada Miki, 265, 339n16

Sawamura Sadako, 77

Sayun’s Bell (Sayon no kane), 199, 240

Scandal (Shūbun), xxix, 165, 262

Screen Actors Guild, 274–275

Second Sino-Japanese War: battles, 50;

beginning, 6, 48; Japanese surrender,

230–231; in Shanghai, 314n5; in

Yellow River basin, 170–175. See also

Japanese military; propaganda

Seki Taneko, 103

Shanghai: anti-Japanese feelings, 314n5;

bombings, 207, 224–225; end of war,

226–231; film industry, 188–189,

190–191; films set in, xxxvi, 98; foreign

concessions, 188, 204–205, 225, 227,

333n2; Japanese occupation, 160–161,

191, 195–197, 205–206, 208–210, 331n14;

Japanese relocation camps, 230, 232,

233–238, 239–241; Li Xianglan in,

160–161, 191, 195–196, 204, 205, 207–219,

221–222, 223, 224–230; music, 106–107;

popular songs, 212, 217; racecourse,

225–226, 238; recitals, 208–209;

“Rhapsody of the Evening Primrose,”

209–211, 213–218, 223, 225–226; secret

organizations, 247–248; Soviet

consulate, 218–219, 220, 245; theaters,

xxv, 100, 208–209, 214, 303n75, 334n7,

Index

335n16, 335n18; treason trials, 231–232;

Western culture, 106–107. See also

Zhonghua Dianying

Shanghai Municipal Council (Gongbuju),

213, 223, 333n2

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra,

209–210, 213–218, 225–226

Shangri-La, 281–283

Shaw Brothers, xx, xxix–xxx, 273, 300n55

Shen Xiling, 190

Shenyang, 15, 309n1. See also Fengtian

Shi Dongshan, 191

Shibata Sanae, 260

Shigeki Kyūhei, xxvi, 84, 97, 120–121

Shigenobu Fusako, xxx, 285, 341n33

Shigure Otowa, 103

Shimada Katsumi, 228

Shimazaki Tōson, Broken Commandment

(Hakai), xlvii, 260–261

Shimazu Yasujirō, xxxiii, 178, 179, 181–182,

183, 184, 185, 306n110

Shimizu Akira, xlv, l, 89, 186, 191, 208,

299n45

Shimizu Masao, 260

Shimura Takashi, xxix

Shindō Eitarō, 179, 181, 182

Shining Day of My Life, The (Waga shōgai

no kagayakeru hi), xxix, 146, 164,

261–262, 338n6

Shin-Tōhō, 262

Ship of Tumultuous Fortune, The (Fūun

senryōsen), 272

Shirai Tetsuzō, 123, 124, 126, 178

Shōchiku, xxv, xlv, 83, 86, 261–262

Shōchiku Ōfuna Studio, 86

Shooting Star, The (Nagareboshi), 164, 262,

300n50

Song Qingling, 32

Song Zheyuan, 38, 41, 43

“Song of Construction” (Kensetsu no uta),

102

“Song of Fengyang, The” (Fengyang’ge),

45, 313n18

“Song of the Fishermen” (Yuguang-qu),

27–28, 311n21

“Song of the White Orchid” (Byakuran no

uta), 101

355

Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta),

xxxiv, 303n74; audiences, xxii, 89–90;

characters, xli–xlii, 89–90; filming,

xlv–xlvi, 87–88; plot, 86–87; publicity,

84–85, 86, 90, 110; screenplay, 78–79;

theme songs, 101, 111–112

South Manchurian Railway Company

(Minami Manshū Tetsudō

Kabushikigaisha; Mantetsu), xxvi,

xxxi–xxxii, xli, 1, 2, 4–5, 6–9, 72

Soviet Union: embassy in Japan, 260, 275;

fi lms, 220; Jews, 242; Manchuria

invasion, 117, 203, 226; Moscow Art

Theater, 260, 275; Nomonhan

Incident, 141–142; relations with

Japan, 136, 219–222; Shanghai

consulate, 218–219, 220, 245; spies,

xxv, 182–183, 184, 275. See also

Russian exiles

Spring Dream of Great Fortune (Fugui

chunmeng; Japanese rendering, Fūki

shunmu), 69

Stack, Robert, xxix, 278, 300n51

Stalin, Joseph, 136, 222

Standish, Isolde, xlv

Stephenson, Shelley, xxi

Stevens, George, 279

Su Dongpo, 107

Sugiyama Kōhei, 96

Sun Pinghua, 199

Sun Yat-sen, 159, 205

Susukida Kenji, 260

Suzhou Nights (Soshū no yoru), xxxiv, l

“Suzhou Serenade, The” (Soshū yakyoku),

102, 103, 105, 107–108, 109–110,

125–126, 175, 321n17

Suzuki Jūkichi, 150

Suzuki Jūzaburō, 85–86

Suzuki Shigekichi, 96, 318n22

Sword for Hire (Sengoku burai), 272, 273

Tachibana Sōichi, 91, 92

Tada Hayao, 57, 58, 59, 150, 151–152, 155,

314n7, 325n3

Taguchi Hiroshi, 241–242, 244–246

Taimiao (Imperial Ancestral Temple),

Beijing, 39, 45, 312n9

356

Index

Taiwan, 240, 300n50

Takamine Hideko, 77

Takasaki Tatsunosuke, 95

Takenaka Shigetoshi, 183

Takeoka Nobuyuki, 102

Takizawa Osamu, 259, 260, 262, 338nn5–6

Tamura Taijirō, 78, 79–80, 171–172,

316n14; Biography of a Prostitute

(Shunpuden), 262, 300n49

Tan Yuling, 118–119

Tanaka Kakuei, xxx, 285–286, 300n57,

340n27, 341n34

Tanaka Kinuyo, 263

Tanaka Takayoshi, 55, 59, 154

Tang Enbo, 230

Taniguchi Senkichi, xxix, 262, 272, 277,

304n81, 339n9

Tanikawa Takeshi, xxxvii

Tansman, Alan, xxxiii, l

Tasaka Tomotaka, 68

Tawaraya Sōtatsu, xliii

Taylor, Don, xxix, 264, 300n51

Teichiku, 103, 104

“That Lovely Star” (Itoshi ano hoshi),

101–102, 125

Tian Han, 191

Tianjin: Dongxinglou, 54, 55–56, 58, 59,

151; Pan Yugui as mayor, 38, 43, 44,

49, 50, 54–55

Tōgō Shigenori, 222

Tōhō: contracts, 121, 272; Drama Division,

259; fi lms, xxxvii, 106, 178, 277;

Man’ei and, 77, 78–79, 83, 120–121;

publicists, xxv, xlv, 86, 90

Tōhō Tōwa Film Company, Ltd., 186

Tōjō Hideki, 152, 155, 162, 325n3

Tokugawa Musei, 273, 340n23

Tokyo: Asagaya house, 164, 261, 270, 272;

Ginza, 167; Imperial Apartments, 84,

143–144, 162, 258; Man’ei office, xxvi,

90, 97, 120–121. See also Nichigeki

Theater

Tokyo Holidays (Tokyo no kyūjitsu), 284

Tokyo Rose, 232, 269, 335n2

Tolstoy, Leo, Resurrection, 259–260, 275,

316n15

Tomskii, V. I., 179, 181

Tōwa Trading Company (Tōwa Shōji), 93,

150, 186–187, 190, 210

Tōyama Mitsuru, 151, 152, 154

Toyoda Shirō, 18, 281

Travels to the East (Dong’youji; Japanese

rendering, Tōyūki), 77

Traviata, La, 126, 197, 214, 226

treason trials: of Chinese actors, 231–232;

of Kawashima Yoshiko, 155, 156–157,

232, 236; of Li Jichun, 310n5; of Li

Xianglan, 99, 252–253, 255; in

Nanjing, 239

Tsuji Hisaichi: Li Xianglan’s performances

and, 213; postwar career, 319–320n7;

in Shanghai, 189, 209, 219–221, 225;

“Topics on Zhonghua Dianying’s

History,” 100, 192–193, 198–199, 219,

220, 221

Tsuji Hisako, 96

Tsumura Hideo, xxxiii, xxxviii, 302n70

Uchida Tomu, 68, 73, 96, 203, 318n22,

328n13

Ueno Katsunori, 125

Ueno Shinji, 68, 69

Umehara Ryūzaburō, 36–37, 84, 269,

311–312n2

United Nations, Japanese delegation,

282–284

United States: Broadway musicals, 259,

264, 265, 281–283; CIA, 276, 277;

occupation of Japan, 108–109,

139–140, 167, 276–277, 338n7;

television programs, 278; visa

denials, xxix, 272–276, 277–278;

Yamaguchi in, xxix, 262–269,

278–283, 300n51. See also Pacific War

Uno Jūkichi, 259, 260, 338nn5–6

Vidor, King, 264, 268, 300n51

Wada Hidekichi, 97, 332n21

Wan Rong, Empress, 92, 112, 118, 322n8

Wang Dan, 76

Wang Fuchun, 76

Wang Jingwei, 230, 247, 303n73

Wang Kemin, 43, 313n14

Index

Wang Qimin, 73

Wang Renmei, 28, 191

Wang, Yiman, xli

Wang Yin, 193–194, 197, 299n43, 332n18

Warren, Franklin, 140

Watanabe Hamako, xix, xlv, 101, 102, 103,

106, 108, 208–209

Watanabe Kan’ichi, 9

Watanabe Kunio, 87, 98

Watanabe Ryūsaku, 55, 155

Watanuki Tetsuo, 133

“We Are Young” (Futari wa wakai), 68

Wen Guihua, 45, 46, 47, 61–62, 199–200

Wen Xiu, 118

“When Will You Return?” (He’ri jun zai

lai), 79, 103–104, 191, 213, 293n2,

320–321n14

White Russians. See Russian exiles

Winchell, Walter, 264

Winter Jasmine (Geishunka), xvii, xxxiv,

xlii–xliv, l, 97, 110, 195, 306n108

Woman from Shanghai, The (Shanhai no

onna), 272

Womanly Craze (Onna no ryūkō), 262

Wong Ain-ling, xviii

Wu Peifu, 43, 313n15

Xia Peijie, 73, 74, 76, 77

Xia Yan, 191

Xinjing, 68–78, 114–115, 116, 117, 226,

293n4. See also Man’ei

Xinjing Broadcasting Station, 63

Xuantong, Emperor, 117. See also Puyi

Yachigusa Kaoru, 18

Yagi Yasutarō, 96

Yamada Seizaburō, 111

Yamaga Chika, 157, 162–163, 167

Yamaga Hiroko, 164–168

Yamagata Isao, 260

Yamaga Tōru: appearance, 148, 160–161,

163–164; character in play, 55;

Chinese friends, 149, 160–161,

271–272; court-martial and

imprisonment, 161–163; death, 157,

165–166; education, 149, 157–158;

family, 157, 162–163, 164–168;

357

Kawashima Yoshiko and, 54, 59,

148–151, 154, 158, 162; Li Xianglan’s

career and, 52, 62, 65–66, 69;

marriages, 149, 158, 164; military

service, 149, 157–158; mistresses, 76,

148, 149, 150, 154, 158–160; opium

use, 161; postwar business failures,

163–164, 272; in Press Division, 51–52,

148, 158–161; relationship with

Yamaguchi, xviii, 51–52, 54, 59, 148,

150–151, 159–161, 163, 164, 165–166;

rumors about, 159

Yamaguchi Ai, 3, 44, 241, 250–252, 261,

270, 271, 272

Yamaguchi Etsuko, 60, 156, 251–252

Yamaguchi Fumio: in Beijing, 32, 35, 38,

49–50, 241, 250–252, 272; birth and

family, 2; Chinese friends, 2–3, 17,

21, 38; death, 271–272; divorce, 271;

education in China, 2–3, 4, 271;

employment, xxxi–xxxii, 2, 4–5, 17;

life in Japan, 270–271; marriage, 3;

repatriation to Japan, 261, 270, 272;

suspicions of, 13–14; in Tianjin,

55–56; Tokyo visit, 143; training

Yoshiko in Chinese, 3–5, 21

Yamaguchi Kiyoko, 156

Yamaguchi Seiko, 165, 167–168

Yamaguchi Shimpei, 118

Yamaguchi, Shirley, as stage name, xx,

264. See also Yamaguchi Yoshiko,

postwar career

Yamaguchi Yoshiko: autobiography, xx,

257, 294n10; dating, 137–139, 140–141;

family, 2–5, 268–272; financial

problems, 270–271; health, 21–22, 84,

257; languages spoken, 263, 264,

295n12; marriage to Noguchi, xxix,

166–167, 267, 269, 273, 274, 277–278,

280–281; marriage to Ōtaka, xx, xxx,

284, 341n31; miscarriages, 281; play

and films on, 294n8; political views,

xxx–xxxi, 301n58; in relocation

camp, 233–238, 239–241, 246–250;

repatriation to Japan, 141, 253–256,

258; stage names, xix–xx, 20, 28, 75.

See also Li Xianglan; national identity

358

Index

Yamaguchi Yoshiko, early life: birth, 1;

career aspirations, 3–4, 21, 27, 43, 52;

education, 1, 3–5, 21, 28, 29, 38, 39–40,

44, 45, 50; family, 6–7; in Fengtian,

15–31; friends, 5, 22–23, 29–31; in

Fushun, 1–14; health, 21–22; languages

spoken, 1, 3–5, 16–17, 18, 21, 39–40, 50;

music lessons, 3, 19, 23–27, 28, 52. See

also Pan Shuhua

Yamaguchi Yoshiko, postwar career:

fame, xviii, xix; fi lms, xxix–xxx, 164,

261–262, 264, 265, 272, 278, 284,

299–300nn48–51, 304n81; focus on

career, 141, 267, 280; journalism, xxx,

285; retirement, 284; singing, xxx,

259; support of family members, 164,

261, 270, 272; on television, xxx, 278,

283, 284–286, 300n56; theater,

259–261, 264, 276, 281–283; in United

States, xxix, 262–269, 278–283,

300n51

Yamaguchi family register, xxix, 241,

248–252, 271

Yamamoto Kajirō, 284

Yamamoto Satsuo, xl, xli, 305n97, 323n2,

328–329n20, 338n5

Yamanashi Minoru, 62–63, 65–66, 78, 81,

91, 93, 121

Yamaoka Sōhachi, 151, 152–153

Yamashita Tomoyuki, 115, 146–147, 322n3

Yamauchi Eizō, 77

Yan Gongshang, 212

Yan Ru, 103, 320–321n14

Yangbaibao Incident, 6–10

Yao Min, 212, 300n54

Yasuda Yojūrō, xxxii–xxxiii, l, 302n66

Ye Degui, 252–253, 255

Yellow River (Huang’he; Japanese

rendering, Kōga), 169–175, 177–178,

302–303n73

Ying Yunwei, 191

Yoshikawa Eiji, 117

Yoshimura Kōzaburō, xxix, 146, 261,

324n17

Yoshioka Hatsuko, 114, 117

Yoshioka Kazuko, 114

Yoshioka Yasunao, xviii, 94, 112, 113–117,

118–119, 321n22

Yoshioka Yukiko, 94, 114, 116, 117, 139

You Can’t Take It With You (Wagaya no

rakuen), 259–260

You and I (Kimi to boku), 240

Yuan Meiyun, 193, 194, 196, 207, 332n18

Yuan Shikai, 187

Yue Feng, 191

Yukawa Hideki, 265, 339n14

Yuri, Major General, 152–153, 325n7

Zhang Jinghui, 114, 322n2

Zhang Min, 71, 76

Zhang Shankun, 188–189, 191, 195, 206,

207, 208, 296n21. See also Glory to

Eternity

Zhang Xiaolin, 247

Zheng Xiaojun, 71, 73, 74, 76

Zhonghua Dianying (China Film

Company; Huaying): Chinese fi lm

distribution, 189, 191; establishment,

96, 186, 187–188; Man’ei and, 191–192;

Soviet fi lm distribution request, 220;

staff, 208, 209, 233; stars, 207. See also

Kawakita Nagamasa; Tsuji Hisaichi

Zhou Diao, 77

Zhou Enlai, 285–286, 305n95, 341n34

Zhou Manhua, 207

Zhou Shimu, 231

Zhou Xiaobo, 169–170, 327n3

Zhou Xuan: fame, xviii, 191; fi lms, 207,

320n13, 334n13, 335n21; life and

death, 212–213, 218; Li Xianglan and,

212, 217; recordings, 103, 191, 212, 217,

320nn13–14, 335n22

Zhu Shilin, 193, 331–332n17

Zhu Wenshun, 76, 77, 315–316n12

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