THE APOLOGY
Director: Tiffany Hsiung
Writer: Tiffany Hsiung
Two important reasons why a documentary should be made are the uniqueness of the subjects or stories that need be to told. For THE APOLOGY, the subjects are – as the titles inform at the start of the film – ‘grandmas’ or ‘comfort women’. These are the young Asian girls (Chinese, Korean, Filipino) who are forced into the sex slave trade by he Japanese during the Japanese occupation. The Japanese are clearly the hated villains in the piece. Hsiung makes sure the point gets across. Unrepentant, the Japs, especially the politicians claim that the trade was necessary and show no remote sign of remorse.
The director of this importance piece, a NFB (National Film Board) production is appropriately Asian – Tiffany Hsiung, who will be present to take questions from the audience in Toronto on December 6 and 8, with Q&As at…
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