The Apology follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.  For over five years the director has been unpacking their painful and unresolved history, gradually winning the trust of women who survived a brutal system of mass institutionalized sex slavery, interned in military brothels throughout Japanese-occupied Asia between 1932 and 1945.
I came in later in the project to help film Grandma Cao in Yuxian, China. We went back several trips, including a fateful Chinese New Year, where information never previously mentioned was revealed.
Winner - 78th Annual Peabody Awards
Winner - Best Feature Film - Seattle Asian American Film Festival 
Audience Favorite / World Premiere - HotDocs
Winner - International Female Film Festival - Sweden
Winner - Cinephile Award - Busan Int'l Film Festival
Winner - Audience Award - Cork Film Festival
Production Company : National Film Board of Canada, Mandarin Films
Producer : Chris Kang
Director : Tiffany Hsiung
Cinematographer (China) : Jason Lee Wong
Camera : Canon C300
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