In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa poster

In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa

2025 • 1h39m Documentary, History

Popularity

1

A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed "entertainment" inflicted on women of the Kurokawa settler group during Japan’s imperialist expansion in Manchuria. Under state-led colonization in the 1930s–40s, Japanese settlers occupied Chinese lands. In August 1945, facing the Soviet invasion, the group offered 15 women to enemy troops in a desperate act of survival. Decades later, the survivors confront the silenced legacy of imperial violence, discrimination, and trauma. Directed by Fumie Matsubara, with narration by Shinobu Otake.

Details

Director

松原文枝

Cast

Shinobu Otake

Release date

7/12/2025

Status

Released

Origin country

JP