A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Pak Sunam
Park Soo-nam
Birthplace:
Japan
Born in 1935 in JAPAN, Park is the author of The Collected Letters of Lee Jin-woo, and Crime, Death, and Love, two collections of correspondence between her and the defendant in the Komatsugawa High School female student murder case (1958) . After 1965, she began visiting Hiroshima and investigating the actual conditions of Korean hibakusha (Atomic-bomb survivors). In 1973, she published Korea, Hiroshima, Half-Japanese, a collection of testimony from Korean hibakusha. In 1986, she released the documentary film The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story, which protested the actual conditions of North and South Korean hibakusha. It was shown independently throughout Japan, causing a sensation. She completed the sequel Song of Arirang: Voices from Okinawa in 1991. Her documentary films are made with the historical testimonies by the Korean atomic bomb survivors, Korean civilian workers and "comfort women" who were forcibly taken to Okinawa during the war by the military.
Director:
1991 Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa
2005 The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story
2012 Nuchigafu - Life is a Treasure
2017 The Silence
2023 The Voices of the Silenced
Producer:
1991 Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa
2005 The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story
2012 Nuchigafu - Life is a Treasure
2017 The Silence
2023 The Voices of the Silenced
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