2:18:00
TheJapanese were spitting blood.
I asked why they were getting beaten.
2:18:04
They told me how heartless
the beatings were.
2:18:08
They had hoarded hundreds
of sacks of rice.
2:18:12
If they had distributed the rice...
2:18:15
they would have been heroes
in the neighborhood.
2:18:20
But they didn't. Instead...
2:18:22
they gathered all the rice up
and set fire to it.
2:18:27
I went and asked theJapanese soldiers
why they had done this.
2:18:33
They explained...
2:18:34
the rice had been
in storage a long time.
2:18:37
It had turned black.
2:18:39
It wasn't edible.
2:18:42
It had to be burned.
2:18:45
It was only after I explained
this to the people...
2:18:50
that they stopped beating them.
2:18:52
Then I continued
my performance.
2:18:55
Another day I saw trucks
heading toward the airport.
2:19:00
Soon after, there was a clamor
coming from the airfield...
2:19:05
the sound of hammers clashing.
2:19:08
I went to take a look.
2:19:10
The plane engines had been
previously sabotaged by acid.
2:19:15
They were worthless pieces of junk.
2:19:18
They put the sabotaged planes
in one hangar...
2:19:22
apart from the good ones.
2:19:25
All the people
from the Bingang Street area...
2:19:29
towed the sabotaged ones out
and started to dismantle them.
2:19:35
They called in these junk collectors...
2:19:38
to appraise the junk aluminum...
2:19:41
from inside and outside the planes.
2:19:44
Aluminum was separated from steel
and weighed separately.
2:19:48
Everyone was having a good time.
2:19:50
I asked them...
2:19:51
"Why are you dismantling
those planes?"
2:19:53
They said, "Where do you think we're
getting the money to pay you?
2:19:58
The money for
your performances...