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Wangxiang

Banned level: XXXX [Plot] A giant passenger plane landed at the Malaysian airport. Keiko Mitani, an expert on Japanese Asian history, stepped off the plane and was greeted by Yamamoto from the Agricultural Laboratory. They drove to the "Sandakan Hakka Club". Yamamoto told Keizi that this was the former site of Sandakan No. 8 brothel. Looking at the abandoned old building, Keiko recalled the days when she spent time with Asaki Po in Amakusa, Kyushu Island, three years ago to study the history of Asian women selling themselves as prostitutes overseas.

Three years ago, Keiko traveled almost all over Amakusa to get first-hand information about Japanese women being sold overseas. However, because the locals avoided the matter, Keiko found nothing. Just when she was about to leave in disappointment, she unexpectedly met Azaki Po.

Aqi Po is over seventy years old, smokes and loves to chat, but as soon as someone brings up the topic of the Nanyang sister who was sold overseas as a prostitute, she will turn around and leave. Keiko met Azaki Po in a tavern and decided to chat with her. Azaki Po invites Keiko to her home as a guest. She lives alone in a thatched house with only a few abandoned cats for company. The interior furnishings are shabby and shabby, and the roof is covered with cobwebs. Keiko said that she wanted to stay a few more days, and Asaki Po was very happy. She was lonely and would like to have someone to keep her company. Keiko helped Azaki Po work during the day and chatted together at night. Azaki Po finally opened her heart to Keiko.

It turns out that Azaki was born in a poor family in Amakusa. She lost her father when she was 6 years old. In order to make a living, her mother took her and her brother Yasuyoshi to marry Azaki's uncle, but life was still very difficult. In order to make money, redeem the land, build a big house, and marry a good wife for his brother, Azaki went to Nanyang with the trafficker Taro.

After Azaki arrived in Borneo in South Asia, he was sold to No. 8 brothel and became a prostitute. 14-year-old Azaki was forced to start her career as a Nanyang sister in a simple and shabby room with heavy makeup on her face. She tried to resist, but she had to endure the beatings and threats in silence.

In this way, Azaki spent five years of miserable prostitution career in Nanyang. Later, she fell in love with a young man named Takeyama Hideo. Hideo promised to redeem her body and marry her when he made enough money, but he disappeared as soon as he left.

With the recovery of Japan's economy, the heyday of earning foreign exchange from Nanyang sisters has gradually passed, and brothels have begun to decline. Finally, the brothel changed hands several times and ended up in the hands of Aju Ma, the proprietress who was a prostitute. Before her death, the kind-hearted Aju's mother distributed her life's savings from prostitution to her sisters, and asked everyone not to return to Japan. She built tombstones for her sisters there.

Aqi didn’t listen to Aju’s mother. She missed her hometown and relatives too much. But when she returned to her hometown full of longing, no one came to pick her up. In the newly built big house, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly received her. Inadvertently, Azaki heard people talking in private. It turned out that his brother and sister-in-law disliked Azaki and were worried that she would take back the house that Azaki paid for. Like a bolt from the blue, Azaki never imagined that her brother who loved her so much would become so heartless. She couldn't help but despair. From then on, she began to give up on herself, drink alcohol all day long, and cry bitterly at the beach when she was drunk.

Later, Aqi immigrated to Northeast China, where she married a cobbler and gave birth to a son named Yongzhi. After Japan's defeat and surrender, Azaki's husband unfortunately died of illness on the way back to China. After returning to China, Azaki first lived with his son in Kyoto, but his grown-up son felt that his mother, who had been a prostitute, had a bad reputation, so he sent Azaki back to Amakusa. The son has been married for 9 years, but Azaki has not seen her daughter-in-law yet.

Keiko was deeply moved by what happened to Asaki, and she called Asaki "Mom" sincerely. Azaki asked for the handkerchief Keiko used as a souvenir. She pressed the handkerchief tightly to her face and burst into tears.

At the end of the film, Keiko, accompanied by Yamamoto, came to the forest of Sandakan. Among the weeds, there were many tombstones of Nanyang sisters, with their backs to their motherland, Japan.