This powerful documentary is alternately harrowing and uplifting, and always emotionally devastating. Best Art Direction Huang Mei-ching Nominated Best Makeup & Costume. It was released on Januin Taiwan and on Januin China. how many plastic surgery residency spots. "They should sell Kleenex instead of popcorn at theaters showing. The Village of No Return (Chinese: ) is a 2017 Taiwanese-Chinese action-comedy film directed by Chen Yu-hsun, starring Shu Qi, Wang Qianyuan, Joseph Chang, Eric Tsang and Tony Yang. Dae-min Park is a South-Korean director known for his features Private Eye (2009) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016). "A landmark film for its subject matter and the sensitivity with which Hsiung approaches it, 'The Apology' is one of the best films ever produced by the NFB." - POV Magazine "A moving testament to all women who have suffered and survived similar atrocities." - Film Journal International "A must-see for everyone! Truly inspiring an outstanding documentary." - Asian Movie Pulse "A powerful, intimate portrait." - San Francisco Chronicle The plight of the so-called 'Comfort Women' who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II has seldom been told so powerfully." - BBC News Hsiung drew on devastating personal experience as well as six years spent documenting the lives of survivors of military sexual assault during WWII. To bring THE APOLOGY to the screen, director Tiffany Hsiung enlisted an all female team (including Mary Stephens, editor of Lixin Fan's film Last Train Home). They are seeking an apology, and hope that this horrific chapter of history will not be forgotten. After decades of living in silence and shame about their experiences of institutionalized rape and sexual slavery, in THE APOLOGY they give first-hand accounts of the truth. Seventy years after their imprisonment in so-called "comfort stations," Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in the Philippines are facing their twilight years. Winner of a Peabody award, a duPont-Columbia award, and named Best Documentary at the Busan International Film Festival, THE APOLOGY follows the personal journeys of three former "comfort women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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