Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

Jul 25, 2019 | IMDB 7.4

120 min Watch Now

Documentary, History

A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history in Japan.

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Shinzo Abe, Park Geun-hye, Barack Obama

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