Life
Hanaoka Jiro and another aboriginal policeman Hanaoka Ichiro are not related by blood. The two were deliberately cultivated under the Japanese Empire's Tibetan policy, making the original A role model for residents to accept Japanese culture. Hanaoka Jiro is good at sports activities and is excellent in track and field events. He can run long-distance, sprint, javelin, shot put, and judo. In terms of academics, he is known for studying hard and being good at calligraphy.
In 1930, Mona Rudo, the leader of the Mahpo tribe, clashed with the Japanese police. During the Wushe Games on October 27, he launched an uprising and went out in force to attack and kill Japanese people participating in the games. , is for the Wushe incident. Because Hanaoka Jiro is a member of the aboriginal people and is also a policeman, he has conflicts with his bloodline and the Japanese police who cultivated him, so he makes an appointment with Hanaoka Ichiro to commit suicide. Ichiro committed seppuku in the spirit of bushido, while Jiro chose to compete. The Dek people traditionally hang themselves.
The possible reasons why Hanaoka Ichiro and Hanaoka Jiro committed suicide were that they were unwilling to suppress the aborigines of their own race; and they could not accept the killing of Japanese civilians, even innocent women and children, by their tribesmen. The two of them jointly left a suicide note written in Japanese cursive on the wall. According to research, it was written by Erlang (in Seediq Bale's movie, it was Ichiro who wrote it), indicating that the tribe revolted because they could not bear the hard labor, and the two were helpless and had to die. Family
Hanaoka Jiro's wife, Takayama Hatsuko (clan name Obin Tadao, Chinese name Gao Caiyun, died in 1996), later remarried Piho Walis, a native of Hoge Society (during the Nationalist Revolution, his Chinese name was changed to Gao Yongqing), formerly the mayor of Renai Township, Nantou County, and a member of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly. Erlang's posthumous son Hanaoka Chuao (family name: Awi Dakis, Chinese name Gao Guanghua) also served as the head of Renai Township in Nantou County. Hanaoka mother and son ran a hotel in the Lushan Hot Spring Area.