Poster
Song of Arirang Voices from Okinawa  (1991)


N/A|1 Jan, 1991|100 min
Released
In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women taken as “comfort women.” Little is known about the number of casualties or their experiences. In 1989, Park Soonam started to track down the survivors of the Battle of Okinawa to record their testimonies. In 1990, Park visits Korea in search of former “military laborers” who had survived Okinawa and repatriated to Korea. The survivors vividly recount their experiences of their compatriots’ murder and about the “comfort women” to the Zainichi Korean female director. The film zeroes in on the murder of Korean “military laborers” and the presence of “comfort women” in Okinawa via testimonies of former Japanese soldiers.
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Keywords
okinawa
imperial japan
comfort women
koreans in japan

Crews

Koshiro Otsu
Cinematography
Ichitoku Miyauchi
Cinematography
Tomizuka Ryoichi
Editor
Isamu Katto
Sound
Hara Masami
Music
Park Soo-nam
Director