A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"
2006-11-03
| 影片名稱：A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" |
| 發行時間：1998 |
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內容大綱：After a silence of half a century, fourteen Taiwanese women tell their difficult postwar life histories and the hardships of being forced or deceived into working for the Japanese Army as "comfort women"during World War II. This lucid work is crafted with a serene touch. Its very calmness brings home the depths of unhealed wounds from sexual abuse endured at the age of seventeen. While the director didn't intend it, this work, with its message of the exhaustive wartime discrimination against women and the violation of human rights, sheds light on present Japanese (unconscious) understandings of gender. It includes not only comments that disgrace the nation - such as a high - ranking official saying that hitting his wife is part of Japanese culture, or that half of all officials are having extra - marital affairs, which restore their energy for work. It also reminds us of the mass media's endless humiliation of women in a context in which consumption is the highest virtue. Although it has been six years since the Japanese government admitted the wartime Army's role in forcing Koreans to be comfort women, its policy since then seems to have stepped back rather than forward. If the Obuchi administration is serious about cleaning up the problems of the20th century now, isn't this issue of "comfort women" one of the most urgent? [Fukushima Yukio] |
| 導演：Yang Chia-yun |
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| 發行人：The S.H.E Shop |
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| 片長：90分 |
| 影片類型：公民與政治權利 |