Okinawan Harumoni - Testimony: Military Comfort Women

Bae Ponggi, a Korean woman who became a comfort woman for the former Japanese military in 1944, testifies for the first time in Okinawa in 1975, after Okinawa was returned to the mainland. In the "red-tiled house" on Tokashiki Island, Okinawa, which was turned into a comfort station, she talks about her life and relationships, her situation after being left behind on the Korean Peninsula and unable to return to it after the war, and what happened afterwards.

Release Date

August 14, 1979

Status

Released

Original Title

沖縄のハルモニ 証言・従軍慰安婦

Runtime

1h 26min

Budget

Revenue

Language

Japanese

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