Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
Brief Synopsis
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A look at the conditions that forced over 200,000 Korean women to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. The government of Japan's continued denial that women were ever taken, held, and used against their consent finally drove some now elderly "comfort women" to go public wit
Cast & Crew
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Dai Sil Kim Gibson
Director
Kimura Naoko
Tokuda Masanori
Fujioka Nobukatsu
Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Kawakubo Toshio
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1999
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 28m
Synopsis
A look at the conditions that forced over 200,000 Korean women to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. The government of Japan's continued denial that women were ever taken, held, and used against their consent finally drove some now elderly "comfort women" to go public with their stories in 1991 and demand an official apology.
Director
Dai Sil Kim Gibson
Director
Cast
Kimura Naoko
Tokuda Masanori
Fujioka Nobukatsu
Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Kawakubo Toshio
Ikeda Masae
James Mackay
Crew
Mikiko Anzai-o'keefe
Interpreter
Charles Burnett
Coproducer
Charles Burnett
Director Of Photography
Charles Burnett
Editor
Park Chechol
Driver
Yang Chingja
Interpreter
Yang Chingja
Researcher
Willie Dawkins
Photography
Joel Gordon
Music
Charles Hairstone
Production Assistant
Kim Young Ju
Sound Mixer
Ann Kaneko
Interpreter
Dai Sil Kim Gibson
Producer
Dai Sil Kim Gibson
Writer
Yuko Kurahashi
Interpreter
Michael Lim
Film Research
Michael Lim
Assistant Camera Operator
Michael Lim
Editing
Michael Lim
Post-Production Supervisor
Mihara Masataka
Interpreter
John Monte
Production Assistant
Donald Murray
Dialogue Consultant
Kawazoo Nozomi
Driver
Jon Oh
Sound Editor
Jon Oh
Sound
Matthew Packwood
Assistant Engineer
Noelle Penraat
Negative Cutting
Phillip Seretti
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Donald Sur
Music
Lori Tsang
Production Assistant
Scott Yoo
Soloist
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1999
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 28m
