In 1991, a reporter wrote an article on the testimony of a former comfort woman in Korea to the dismay and denial of the Japanese government. Twenty-three years later, the reporter is attacked as the fabricator of comfort women, and the battle to clear his name begins. An impactful documentary about free speech, freedom of the press, democracy itself, the truth and a campaign to cover it up.
In 1991 schreef een journalist een artikel over de getuigenis van een voormalige ‘troostvrouw’ uit Zuid-Korea, tot de ontsteltenis en ontkenning van de Japanse overheid. 23 jaar later wordt de journalist aangevallen als de bedenker van ‘troostmeisjes’, en de strijd om zijn naam te zuiveren begint. Een indrukwekkende documentaire over vrijheid van meningsuiting, persvrijheid, de democratie, de waarheid en een campagne om die in de doofpot te stoppen.
NISHIJIMA Shinji 西嶋真司 was born in 1957. He served as a correspondent in Seoul, South Korea, from 1991 to 1994. Until 2019, he produced numerous TV programmes focusing on World War II, including Kota Bahru: The Untold War (2011) and Foujita: Why Did the Artist Paint the War (2014). In 2017 he directed his first documentary film, Resistance: The Old Writer Hayashi Eidai, about a writer who dedicated his career to documenting the forced labour of Korean migrants in Japan. In 2019 he established his own production company, Document Asia, to make his second documentary, Target.
2021 – Target 標的
2017 – Resistance: The Old Writer Hayashi Eidai 抗い 記録作家 林えいだい