In the film, director Xiong Jingqi uses double flashbacks to compare and metaphor the narratives of two time and space, which just shows the profound ideological connotation of the film and makes the film achieve the perfect unity of ideology and artistry.
In the film, Tanaka Kinuyo's gestures vividly express her inner world, and her flexible eyes and delicate facial expressions make her image real and touching.
The highlight of the script is a crying at the end of the film that Keiko Valley is leaving, which makes people move.
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The main plot of The Return of the Native: For various reasons, from the end of the shogunate to the beginning of Showa, a large number of girls from poor families in Japan were sold to Nanyang as prostitutes, and they were internationally called "the first sister of Nanyang". Their fate was bumpy and they suffered human humiliation. Some people die in other places, and some people still have to bear the eyes of secular disdain even when they return home.
In order to investigate and solve this history, the female historian Keiko Mitani (Komaki Kurihara) visited Sakazaki-machi, Cao Tian, Kyushu. But her interview was not smooth, and the old people who had experienced that era kept silent about it.
By chance, she met an old lady (Tanaka Kinuyo) who used to be Nanyang's sister in a roadside soda fountain. After a period of trial and communication, the old woman with a locked heart finally opened her heart to Keiko and reviewed the sad past together.