Fifty Years of Silence
Directed by Ned Lander1993 56m
Between 1939 and 1945, the Japanese Government, on advice from its Military, forcibly removed thousands of young women and girls from their homes to provide sexual services as "comfort women" to the Japanese army. 50 Years of Silence is Jan Ruff-O-Hearn's story. It spans five generations from a colonial life in Java, recorded on old home movies, through the war to a new start in England as a young war bride and her migration to Australia. It shows her extraordinary courage and dignity to travel to Tokyo to give evidence at an international public hearing. * Winner! Best documentary, 1994 AFI Awards.
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