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In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa

2025·Movie
1h 39min
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A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed "entertainment" inflicted on women of the Kurokawa settler group during Japan’s imperialist expansion in Manchuria. Under state-led colonization in the 1930s–40s, Japanese settlers occupied Chinese lands. In August 1945, facing the Soviet invasion, the group offered 15 women to enemy troops in a desperate act of survival. Decades later, the survivors confront the silenced legacy of imperial violence, discrimination, and trauma. Directed by Fumie Matsubara, with narration by Shinobu Otake.
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How long is In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa?

1 h 39 min

In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa runs 1 h 39 min.

What language is In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa in?

Japanese

It was made in Japanese. Produced in Japan.