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AMES 671 World of Korean Cinema

Films on Comfort Women at Duke

20세기반인륜특대형범죄 = Extra-large inhumane crime in the 20th century by 조선기록과학영화촬영소
Call Number: DVD 25862

Publication Date: [2009]

North Korea films.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007.
In English dialog.
The apology by The National Film Board of Canada presents ; a film by Tiffany Hsiung
Call Number: DVD 33562

Publication Date: 2016

Online streaming documentaries.
Behind forgotten eyes by Director, Anthony Gilmore
Call Number: DVD 13546

Online Streaming Film.
Originally produced in 2007.
In Korean and English with English subtitles.
Breaking the history of silence : the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery.
Call Number: DVD 17724

Publication Date: 2006

Project by the International Organizing Committee of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal 2000 for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan
Comfort by produced & directed by Emmanuel Moonchil Park
Publication Date: [2020]

Online streaming documentaries.
In Korean, with English and Korean subtitles.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2020.
Gai Shanxi and her sisters by produced by Yamagami Tetsujiro
Call Number: DVD 14741

Publication Date: [2008]

Chinese with English subtitles.
Habitual sadness by directed by Byun Young-Joo.
Publication Date: 1999

Streaming online documentaries
Originally released as DVD.
In Korean with English subtitles.
In the name of the emperor by produced by Christine Choy and Nancy Tong.
Publication Date: 1997

Online streaming documentaries.
Originally released as DVD.
In English.
Mary & myself by written, directed and animated by Sam Decoste ; producer, Annette Clarke.
Publication Date: 2015

Online streaming - a short animated documentary on comfort women
Senjō no onnatachi = Senso daughters, daughters of war by produced & directed by Noriko Sekiguchi.
Publication Date: [2016]

Online streaming documentaries.
Dialogue in English, Japanese and Papua New Guinea language with English subtitles.
Shusenjo: Comfort Women and Japan's War on History. by Dezaki, Miki, film director
Call Number: DVD 33921

Publication Date: 2020

Kanopy Streaming is available.
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2019.
In English,Japanese,Korean
Silence broken : Korean comfort woman by directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson.
Publication Date: 1999

Online streaming documentaries.
Korean and English with English subtitles.
귀향, 끝나지 않은 이야기 = Spirits’ Homecoming, Unfinished Story by 감독 조정래
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2017
귀향 : 언니야 이제 집에 가자 by 감독 조정래
Call Number: DVD 29583

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016
그리고 싶은 것 = Big picture by 프로듀서, 안 보영 ; 연출, 권 효.
Call Number: DVD 30157

ISBN: 8809306457615

Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
김 복동 = My name is Kim Bok-dong by 감독, 송 원근
Call Number: DVD 34236 map marker

Publication Date: 2020

In Korean.
나의 마음은 지지 않았다 = My heart is not broken yet by 감독, 안해룡
Call Number: DVD 15739

Originally produced in 2009
낮은목소리 1 = Murmuring : a woman being in Asia : the second report by 제작,감독,변영주
Call Number: DVD 5196

Originally produced as a documentary in 1995
낮은목소리 2 = Habitual sadness by 제작총지휘, 감독, 변영주
Call Number: Online Video

Originally produced as a documentary in 1997
DVD 5197
DVD 11220 disc2
낮은 목소리 3, 숨결 = My own breathinng by 제작, 감독 변영주
Call Number: DVD 11220 disc3

Originally produced as a documentary in 1999.
낮은목소리 = The Murmuring 1-3 by 감독 변영주
Call Number: DVD 11220

1. 낮은목소리 : 아시아에서여성으로산다는것=Murmuring
2. 낮은목소리 2= Habitual sadness
3. 낮은목소리 3: 숨결 = My own breathing
눈길 = Snowy road by 제공, 제작 KBS ; 감독 이 나정 ; 각본 류 보라 ; 프로듀서 윤 재혁.
Call Number: DVD 31445

ISBN: 8809365391318

Originally broadcast on KBS as a two-part television special in 2015; re-edited and released as a motion picture in 2017
마지막 위안부 = The last comfort women by Directed and screenplay by Im Sŏn.
Call Number: DVD 29585

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015
소리굽쇠 = Turning Fork by 감독 추상록
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014
아이 캔 스피크 = I can speak by 감독, 김 현석.
Call Number: DVD 31481

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2017.
에미 이름 은 조센삐 였다 by 감독, 지 영호
Call Number: DVD 22340

Publication Date: 2008

Original produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Story based on a novel of "에미 이름 은 조센삐 였다 by 윤 정모.
에움길 by 감독, 각본, 촬영, 이 승현.
Call Number: DVD 33876

Publication Date: 2019

English title also known as: A long way around.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2019.
In Korean, with optional subtitles in Korean.
임신한 나무 와 도깨비 = The pregnant tree and the goblin by 김동령, 박경태.
Publication Date: 2019

Online streaming video file.
In Korean with English subtitles.
최후 의 심판
Call Number: DVD 33962

Publication Date: 2017

Originally broadcast as an episode of SBS Special in Korea in 2015.
허스토리 = Herstory by 감독, 민 규동
Call Number: DVD 32492

Publication Date: 2019

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2018.
In Korean, with optional subtitles in Korean and English.

Korean cinema produced during the colonial period

발굴된 과거 : 일제시기극영화모음 : 1940년대 = The past unearthed : collection of feature films in the Japanese colonial period
Call Number: DVD 13887

Disc 1: 집없는천사 = Angels on the streets \ 감독, 최인규 (1941) (74 min.)
Disc 2: 반도의봄 = Spring of Korean peninsula \ 감독, 이병일 (1941) (85 min.)
Disc 3: 지원병 = Volunteer \ 감독, 안석영 (1941) (57 min)
Disc 4: 조선해협 = Straits of Chosun \ 감독, 박기채 (1943) (75 min.)
발굴된 과거 두번째 : 1930년대조선영화모음 = The past unearthed : the second encounter, collection of Chosun films in the 1930s
Call Number: DVD 14282

Disc 1: 군용열차 = Military train (1938, 67 min.)
Disc 2: 미몽 = Sweet dream (1936, 48 min.)
Disc 3: 어화 = = Fisherman's fire (1939, 52 min.)
발굴된 과거 세번째 : 병정님 =The past unearthed : the third encounter. by 감독 : 방한준
Call Number: DVD 14283

Originally produced in 1944 by Chosun army press section.
발굴된 과거 네번째 : 고스필모폰드 발굴영상모음=The past unearthed : the fourth encounter.
Call Number: DVD 14284

Originally produced in 1943.

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구한말 시대극 = Historical films about the Korean Empire
Call Number: DVD 22347

Originally produced as feature films from 1959-1960.
Disc 1. 고종 황제와 의사 안중근 = = Emperor (1959, 110 min.)
Disc 2. 한말 풍운 과 민 충정 공 = The Daehan Empire and Min Yeong-hwan (1959, 104 min.)
Disc 3. 독립 협회 와 청년 이 승만 = Rhee Syngman and the independence movement (1959, 133 min.)
Disc 4. 아아 백범 김 구 선생 = Baekbeom Kim Gu (1960,144 min.)
군함도 by 감독 류승완
Call Number: In Process

Publication Date: 2018
꽃 파는 처녀 = The flower girl by 연출, 박 학, 최 익규 ; 제작, 백두산 창작단, 조선 예술 영화 촬영소.
Call Number: DVD 22677

Publication Date: 2012

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1972.
눈길 = Snowy road by 제공, 제작 KBS ; 감독 이 나정 ; 각본 류 보라 ; 프로듀서 윤 재혁.
Call Number: DVD 31445

ISBN: 8809365391318

Originally broadcast on KBS as a two-part television special in 2015; re-edited and released as a motion picture in 2017
다찌마와 리: 악인 이여 지옥행 급행 열차 를 타라= Dachimawa Lee by 감독, 류 승완
Call Number: DVD 18238

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
대장 김창수 = Man of will by 감독 이원태
Call Number: On Order

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2017.
동주 = Dongju: the portrait of a poet by 감독 이준익
Call Number: DVD 29642

Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
마이 웨이 = My way by 제작, Directors ; 감독, 강 제규
Call Number: DVD 21794

Publication Date: 2012
모던보이 = Modern boy by 감독 정지우 ; 제작 강우석
Call Number: DVD 14214

Publication Date: 2009
밀정 = The Age of Shadows by 감독 김지운
Call Number: DVD 31433

Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
박열 = Anarchist from Colony by 감독 이준익
Call Number: On Order

Originally produced as motion picture in 2017.
발굴된 과거 : 일제시기극영화모음 : 1940년대 = The past unearthed : collection of feature films in the Japanese colonial period
Call Number: DVD 13887

Disc 1: 집없는천사 = Angels on the streets \ 감독, 최인규 (1941) (74 min.)
Disc 2: 반도의봄 = Spring of Korean peninsula \ 감독, 이병일 (1941) (85 min.)
Disc 3: 지원병 = Volunteer \ 감독, 안석영 (1941) (57 min)
Disc 4: 조선해협 = Straits of Chosun \ 감독, 박기채 (1943) (75 min.)
발굴된 과거 네번째 : 고스필모폰드 발굴영상모음=The past unearthed : the fourth encounter.
Call Number: DVD 14284

Originally produced in 1943.
발굴된 과거 두번째 : 1930년대조선영화모음 = The past unearthed : the second encounter, collection of Chosun films in the 1930s
Call Number: DVD 14282

Disc 1: 군용열차 = Military train (1938, 67 min.)
Disc 2: 미몽 = Sweet dream (1936, 48 min.)
Disc 3: 어화 = = Fisherman's fire (1939, 52 min.)
발굴된 과거 세번째 : 병정님 =The past unearthed : the third encounter. by 감독 : 방한준
Call Number: DVD 14283

Originally produced in 1944 by Chosun army press section.
상록수 = Evergreen Tree by 감독, 신상옥
Call Number: Online Video

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961
상록수 = Evergreen Tree by 감독, 임권택
Call Number: DVD 21763

Released as a motion picture in 1978
아가씨 = The handmaiden by 감독 박찬욱
Call Number: DVD 30304
암살 = Assassination by 감독 최동훈
Call Number: DVD 29150; DVD 29211

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
원스어폰어타임 = Once upon a time by 감독, 정용기
Call Number: DVD 13834

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
족보 = Genealogy by 감독 임권택
Call Number: DVD 22348 disc 2

Other title: The Family Pedigree
Originally produced as feature films from 1976-1981
팔도사나이 = Gallant men by 감독 김효천
Call Number: DVD 18215

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
해어화 = Love, Lies by 감독, 박흥식
Call Number: DVD 31452

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.
현해탄은 알고 있다 = The Sea Knows by 감독, 김기영
Call Number: Online Video

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961

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Comfort: Film Screening
Thursday, November 14, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Richard White Lecture Hall/East Duke Bldg 103

A DOCUMENTARY FILM about AMERICA'S COMFORT WOMEN

Since the 1990s, the world has come to learn about the case of Japan's military comfort women but very little is known about the connections to America's comfort women. This documentary film follows a lawsuit filed against the state by over one hundred South Korean survivor-activists of the United States military camp towns and explores forgotten historical continuities across the Pacific.

Selective films on the comfort women

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Subjects: Korean Studies

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