They called it 'entertainment.' The women finally get to name it.
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.
Direction
Matsubara's refusal to sensationalize or look away.
Writing
Testimony structured as confrontation, not confession.
Production
Archival restraint that lets silence carry weight.
Director
松原文枝
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Kurokawa settlement was part of Japan's million-person Manchurian colonization plan, one of imperialism's largest demographic experiments.
Director Matsubara spent years building trust with survivors who had refused all prior interview requests, including NHK documentaries.
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