My style is to depict people as they are. So I tried to fade away" so that their real faces are seen.
In the movie lasting about three and half hours, the women, whom he refers to as or grandma in Korean were filmed over some 100 hours between December 1994 and January 1997.The film opened at the Uplink theatre in Shibuya Ward on July 4 and will be screened around Japan Aside from firsthand accounts of the women's harrowing experiences as com fort women, much of the movie is devoted to depicting their daily lives with scenes of them eating, sleeping, dab with make-up, even dancing and arguing at times. In a scene that might surprise Japanese audiences, the women are seen crying as they watch the 1995 Great Hanshin Earth quake disaster unfold on television. In fact on that occasion, they cancelled their weekly protests in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul to express their condo lences to the Japanese people.