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Senso no onnatachi

Noriko Sekiguchi
1989 Japan 55 minutes Japanese

Noriko Sekiguchi, an anthropologist in Australia, is studying the consequences of the sexual exploitation of women during the Second World War. On the basis of her interviews, she retraces the experiences of the women from a Papua village in New Guinea, who were given over to the Japanese soldiers, as well as of Korean and Japanese women obliged to prostitute themselves under the pressure of the army.

Noriko Sekiguchi

Née en 1957, elle fait ses études d’anthroplogie, est assistante-monteuse pour des cinéastes anthropologues en Australie, et travaille à son film Les Filles de la guerre (Senso Daughters) de 1985 à 1989. Depuis elle a réalisé en 1992 When Mrs Hegarty comes to Japan .

Production :
Siglo
Editing :
Les McLaren
Sound :
Noriko Sekiguchi; Osamu Takizawa
Photography :
Chris Owen; Toshio Shimizu

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