''63 Years On'' ( ko, 끝나지 않은 전쟁, lit=An unending war) is a 2008 South Korean
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
about the comfort women who were enslaved by the Japanese military in stations across Asia during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
It showed at the 2008
Jeonju International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent a ...
, and went on to win
Best Documentary Feature Film at the
2nd Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2008.
Production
The film documents the experiences of the comfort women who were enslaved by the Japanese military in stations across Asia during World War II.
It provides a historical investigation along with interviews with five victims,
Jan Ruff O'Herne
Jeanne Alida "Jan" Ruff-O'Herne (18 January 1923 – 19 August 2019) was a Dutch Australian of Irish ancestry and human rights activist known for campaigning internationally against war rape. During World War II, Ruff-O'Herne was forced into sex ...
(Holland), Felicidad de los Reyes (Philippines), Pilar Frias (Philippines), Wei Shao Lan (China) and Lee Soo-san (Korea), who reveal their experiences as survivors of the estimated 200,000 sex slaves from 13 different countries (Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Holland) used by the Japanese military during World War II.
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2008 films
2000s Korean-language films
South Korean documentary films
Films directed by Kim Dong-won
2008 documentary films
2000s South Korean films
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