Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ?Cut Piece?, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moemnt of unbosoming. ?Cut Piece? entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herselft, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.(source: Kristine Stiles,?Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions,? in: Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949–1979, Paul Schimmel (ed.), MoCA Los Angeles, New York/London, 1998, p. 278.)
胡金銓導演曾於康城影展獲獎,1978年被英國《國際電影指南》選為世界五大導演。此部抗日戰爭片,為胡氏1964年自編自導自演的首部作品,於1966年金馬獎獲最佳編劇、最佳剪輯(姜興隆)及最佳發揚民族精神特別獎,被評為「寫中華兒女的愛國熱誠,演導活潑,內容很有深度」。故事描寫二次世界大戰期間,國人奮起抗日的事蹟;除胡氏粉墨登場外,主要演員還包括樂蒂、陳厚、夏儀秋及陳燕燕。