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Gai Shanxi and her sisters
Title
Gai Shanxi and her sisters [videorecording] / produced, wirtten, and directed by Ban Zhongyi ; produced by Yamagami Tetsujiro ; English translation, Bowie Lo, Tian Tse ; produced by Siglo, Ltd., Tokyo.
Published
[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : dGenerate Films, [2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture, 2007.
In Mandarin, Shanxi local dialects and Japanese with English subtitles.
Summary
Hou Dong-E, known as "Gai Shanxi," the fairest woman in China's Shanxi province, was one of the many women abducted from their villages to be sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers stationed nearby. Fifty years later, she joined other women throughout Asia to seek justice and reparations, but she died before her demands were answered.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Chinese; Japanese
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2010
System details note
DVD-R, may not play on all DVD players.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
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