Documentary on Taiwan's 'comfort women' to be released  

臺灣制作慰安婦紀錄片控訴日本 4位當事人已過世

據臺灣《中國時報》報道，相隔15年，臺灣婦女救援基金會推出第2部前臺灣籍慰安婦紀錄片《蘆葦之歌》，記錄6名慰安婦阿嬤的晚年生活，她們等不到日本政府的道歉，但已和曾經受過的巨大創傷“和好”，為自己譜一段永不認輸的人生之歌。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A Taipei-based human rights group will release the documentary "Song of Reed" in October. The film chronicles the painful fight for an official apology from Japan by local women who were forced into sex slavery during World War II.

The project, which began in 2010, has been a race against time as the surviving comfort women are all nearly 90 years old, the foundation said.

Four of the six former comfort women who joined the shooting of the movie have already died during the filming process, said the foundation.

The movie documents the lives of six women who were forced into servitude during the war and their efforts to heal and seek justice.

More importantly, it tells the stories of how the women moved on with their lives despite these painful memories, the foundation's executive director Kang Shu-hua said.

The documentary aims to send the message that "their roles as 'victims' have changed into those of 'fighters for life,'" Kang added.

Several relatives of these former comfort women also showed their support and joined in the shooting of the documentary.

Since the foundation hasn't raised enough funds to get the documentary screened in cinemas, the 76-minute film will be screened in road-shows in four Taiwan cities, including Taichung, Tainan, Taipei, and Hualien.