In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa

Directed by
Fumie Matsubara
Starring
Shinobu Ôtake (berättarröst)
Duration
99 min.
Year
2025
Language
Japanese
Age rating
Från 15 år

A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed “entertainment” inflicted on women of the Kurokawa settler group during Japan’s imperialist expansion in Manchuria. Under state-led colonization in the 1930s–40s, Japanese settlers occupied Chinese lands. In August 1945, facing the Soviet invasion, the group offered 15 women to enemy troops in a desperate act of survival. Decades later, the survivors confront the silenced legacy of imperial violence, discrimination, and trauma

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