Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

10.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 57 min
  • Premiere: 2000. April 1.

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.

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Art

Mise Moon Han

Title Designer

Inshil Sohn Moon

Title Designer

Camera

Charles Burnett

Director of Photography

Willie Dawkins

Additional Photography

Crew

Michael Lim

Post Production Supervisor

Directing

Editing

Michael Lim

Additional Editing

Poo Poo Koh

Additional Editing

Sound

Donald Sur

Original Music Composer

Jon Oh

Sound Editor

Noh Dong-sun

Music Consultant

Scott Yoo

Musician

Writing