In Pursuit of Peace | |
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Genre | Period drama |
Written by | Ng Kah Huay Ang Chee Chuan Woo Soi Muay |
Directed by | Chia Mien Yang Li Liwan |
Starring | Qi Yuwu Apple Hong May Phua Pierre Png Priscelia Chan Yao Wenlong |
Theme music composer | Ke Guimin Shah Tahir |
Opening theme | "Xing Zhe Bu Shui" (醒着不睡) performed by Dreamz FM |
Ending theme | "Xing Zhe Bu Shui" (醒着不睡) performed by Dreamz FM |
Composers | Benny Wong Redwan Ali |
Country of origin | Singapore |
Original language | Mandarin |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Producer | Lee Leng Kiong |
Editor | Lai Zhenjiang |
Running time | 90 minutes per episode |
Release | |
Original network | MediaCorp Channel 8 |
Original release | 9 March – 11 May 2001 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | The Price of Peace (1997) A War Diary (2001) |
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Traditional Chinese | 何日軍再來 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 何日军再来 | ||||||
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In Pursuit of Peace is a Singaporean television drama set in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II. The series was first run on MediaCorp Channel 8 from 9 March to 11 May 2001 on Friday nights. The series is based on the 1999 book Eternal Vigilance:The Price of Freedom (published by Asiapac Books),which contains numerous eyewitness accounts of survivors of the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia. In contrast with The Price of Peace ,a similar television series aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 in 1997,In Pursuit of Peace focuses more on developing the main characters' stories,while the former places greater emphasis on the historical aspects of the Japanese occupation.
The series is set in Singapore and Malaya during World War II and depicts daily life before and during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from the perspectives of two Chinese families.
The Huang family run an inn in Singapore. Huang Yitang married Li Huaniang,a Nyonya woman,and has two sons (Changfeng and Changman) and a daughter (Yinxiang) with her. The Huangs also adopted an orphaned boy,Changqing,and arranged for him to marry Yinxiang when they are grown up. Things get complicated as both Yinxiang and Changqing have their own love interests:Yinxiang is enamoured with Dahai,an anti-Japanese activist,while Changqing loves his cousin,Yang Xiaomei. Unknown to everyone,Chen Yong,an employee at the inn,has a crush on Yinxiang.
The Huangs' neighbours,the Lin family,own a provision shop. Lin Songde,a widower,lives with his son (Lin Fan) and two daughters (Lin Yun and Lin Shan). The two families have arranged a marriage between Changfeng and Lin Yun when they were still young. Later,when the grown-up Changfeng and Lin Yun meet each other,they fall in love without knowing that they are already engaged. Lin Fan starts a romance with Ah-gui after saving her and her brother from a paedophilic businessman. Lin Shan is in a relationship with Warren,a British soldier,who abandons her later.
Changfeng and Lin Yun are killed in an air raid. Against his father's wishes,Lin Fan joins Dalforce and fights the Japanese during the Battle of Singapore. After the fall of Singapore,he flees to Malaya with Ah-gui,marries her and joins an underground resistance movement. Chen Yong secretly becomes an informer for the Kempeitai and infiltrates the resistance movement at the same time. He uses the Kempeitai to help him get rid of Dahai and Changqing so that he can get closer to Yinxiang and win her heart. Changqing survives,goes into hiding with Yang Xiaomei,and starts a family with her. When the Kempeitai threaten him with Yinxiang's life,Chen Yong turns vicious and betrays the resistance by leading the Kempeitai to their hideout in Malaya. In the ensuing battle,a pregnant Ah-gui sacrifices her life to save Lin Fan.
Lin Shan encounters Nishimura,a Japanese military officer,falls in love with him and eventually marries him,much to her father's chagrin. However,she ends up as a sex slave after Nishimura is assassinated by his rivals. Lin Fan returns to Singapore to take revenge on the traitor who betrayed the resistance,and he warns Yinxiang after discovering that Chen Yong is the traitor. Yinxiang pretends to marry Chen Yong,fatally stabs him on their wedding night to avenge Dahai,and disappears from Singapore. In the meantime,Lin Fan encounters Ding Yueguang,a prostitute,and starts a romance with her after they escape death together on a few occasions. However,they never get together eventually.
At the end of the war,the surviving members of the two families reunite,except Yinxiang,who sends them a letter saying she has gone to Hainan.
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