Details

Subject(s)

• Comfort women—Korea—Interviews [Browse]
• Comfort women—Asia—History [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Women—Asia [Browse]
• Service, Compulsory non-military—Japan [Browse]
• Documentary films [Browse]

Related name

• Pyŏn, Yŏng-ju, 1966- [Browse]
• 변 영주, 1966- [Browse]
• Yŏnghwa Chinhŭng Wiwŏnhoe (Korea) [Browse]
• 영화 진흥 위원회 (Korea) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Interviews [Browse]
• Video recordings [Browse]

Summary note

A documentary trilogy about the past and present experiences of comfort women, some of the estimated 200,000 women, mostly Korean, who were forced by the Japanese into sexual slavery during World War II. Now in their sixties and seventies, the surviving women boldly speak of their suffering at the hands of their Japanese oppressors.

Notes

Originally produced 1995-1997.

Creation/​Production credits

• Chejak, Pyŏn Yŏng-ju.
• 제작, 변 영주.

System details

DVD; Dolby digital; NTSC all regions.

Language note

In Korean with English, Japanese and Korean subtitles.

Contents

• [disc 1] Najŭn moksori = Murmuring (98 min./40 min. suppl.)
• [disc 2] Najŭn moksori 2 = Habitual sadness (56 min./72 min. suppl.) --[disc 3] Sumkyŏl = My own breathing (77 min./45 min. suppl.)
• [Suppl.] Najŭn moksori.

Other title(s)

• Năjun moksori = Murmuring.
• 낮은목소리 = Murmuring.
• Năjun moksori 2 = Habitual sadness.
• 낮은 목소리 2 = Habitual sadness.
• Sumkyŏl = My own breathing.
• 숨결 = My own breathing.

OCLC

1340135018

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