Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (盖山西和她的姐妹们) - Clip 1

Ban Zhongyi (班忠义). China, 2007. Documentary, 80 min.
Mandarin, Japanese, Shanxi dialect w/ English subtitles.

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Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters tells the story of one woman's brutal ordeal as a comfort woman for the Japanese Army during World War II.

Hou Dong-E, known as "Gai Shanxi," the fairest woman in Chinas 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.

Chinese filmmaker Ban Zhongyi unearths Gai Shanxis tragic life through the stories of the surviving women in the region. Ban also collects revelatory testimonies from former Japanese soldiers stationed in Shanxi during the war, breaking a decades-long silence over a dark chapter of Chinas history. Following one womans heroic journey, Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters tells a universal story of female solidarity and survival.

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[stinesturr]

uh wtf why is he smiling. wtf!!!!

[menella]

he could smile wen he talked abt it