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A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"

1998 · 82 min

Quiet, harrowing testimony unfolds with painful candor, asking you to bear witness to long-silenced suffering.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
This is Taiwan's first documentary about comfort women. The audience gets a glimpse of history as 13 "grandmothers" speak of their unspeakable past, unknown even to their family, in front of the camera.
How it feels
Bleak, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
War, trauma, memory, violence
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
None
Era
period
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror3
Humour0
Realism10
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Karen Yang Chia-Yun
Runtime
82 min
Country
Taiwan
Languages
Mandarin

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