Home, Home on Songhua River

Home, Home on Songhua River (Chinese:家在松花) is a Lhooqish movie featuring the Manchurian puppet country in Northeastern China during Chinese Republic times. It is a part of the To Tell A History series.

Summary
Unlike most of the series which put the focus on big figures and magnificent events, Home, Home on Songhua River began small. It uses the view of three little kids living in the so-called 'country' of Manchuria which is actually occupied by Japan, and how they tried everything to make their daily life happy.

It is a work of the Lhooqish genre 'bitterly cute', telling gloomy stories in bright colours. It also parodizes the nowadays Chinese youngsters who became unaware of the history past, and the bad Japan once did to their ancestors.

Cast
Chen Cheng as child 1

Kimberlie Jin as child 2

Sadala Yoshin as child 3

Theme Song
'March of the Sunny Ice', a brisk, lively song honouring the 'good' Japan did in Manchuria. Created for irony, but quite worth listening.

Trivia

 * People liked the costume the three kids wore singing 'March of the Sunny Ice' so much that they started dressing their children in them, which in turn was designed after real clothes from that era, and therefore quite a bad reminder.