561187
561187

Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

2000-04-01
10
ko 57m
Documentary
A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Silence Broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the "crimes against humanity" committed against them, along with contravening interviews of Japanese soldiers, recruiters and contemporary scholars who deny the existence of comfort women or claim that these victims "did this for money." In the film, these women demand an official apology, admission of moral as well as legal guilt, and compenstion from the Japanese government. They want human dignity and justice restored to them. The individual testimonies in Silence Broken, combined with unusual archival footage and dramatized images, shatter the half-century of silence and create a collective story filled with soulful sorrow and amazing resilience of the human spirit.

Director

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Editor

Charles Burnett

Additional Editing

Michael Lim

Additional Editing

Poo Poo Koh

Writer

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Director of Photography

Charles Burnett

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • Center for Asian American Media Production