ARTS / FILM By Global Times Published: Mar 17, 2021 05:33 PM
Actress Ying Ze Photo: Courtesy of Hengye Pictures
Tracing Her Shadow, a China-Japan coproduction about Japanese war orphans in China will hit big screens in China on Friday.
Starring actresses and actors from China and Japan like Wu Yanshu, Jun Kunimura and Nagase Jungmin, the latest work from Chinese young director Peng Fei tells the sad story of an old Chinese woman who tries to find the missing Japanese daughter she adopted after the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
Nearly 3,000 Japanese children were left behind in China after the war and were adopted by rural Chinese families. These orphans, including the daughter in the film, began returning to Japan in the 1980s, but they faced a series of difficulties including discrimination and self-identification issues.