A seventeen-year-old girl is brought to a Japanese military camp during WWII, where her catastrophic future awaits.  Can she escape her fate?
 
 
WIANBU Writer & Director: James Bang Producer: James Bang CREW Co-Produced: Jessica Rotondi Cinematographer: Amos Ezra Katz Editor: James Bang, Geoff Bailey Music: Jaebon Hwang Art Direction: Stella Min Assistant Director: Brian Quist
Script Supervisor: Hana Yoo
Assistant Cameraman: Deokyong Lee
Gaffer: Inyoung Choi
Key Grip: Sami Kahn
Grip: Dongsik Yun, Brooke Swaney
Script Translation: Stella Min, Tsuyoshi Kondo
Sound: Christian Magalhaes
Makeup/Special Effect: Alvy Johnson
Costumes: Mihyun Kim Set Design: Eynkyung Nam
Set Construction: Rogin Kim, Bruce Chen Film Information Year: 2008 Genre: War, Historical, Drama Runtime: 11 minutes Production Company: brioblue pictures Film Festivals + Awards Student Academy Awards® (National Finalist) Telluride Film Festival (Filmmaker of Tomorrow Selection) Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (Honorable Mention) Strasbourg International Film Festival (Winner of Best Short Screenplay) Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films Salento International Film Festival San Diego Asian International Film Festival Vancouver Asian Film Festival Internationale Filmwochen an der FU Berlin Spokane International Film Festival The Space4 Shorts Film Festival New York Korean International Film Festival Cast Sohee: Elena Chang Ichiro: Tsuyoshi Kondo Hiroshi: Jun Naito Jin: Pedro Kim Soldier1: Kevin Jung Soldier2: Doekyong Lee
WIANBU - Comfort Woman
sehsuechte.08 – 37th International Student Film Festival Honorary Mention by the Narrative Film Jury, speech held by Rolf Losansky, 04/27/2008 (Translated by Saskia Asmus) The movie Wianbu – Comfort Woman deals with an important and highly political topic and particularly does receive an honorary mention by the feature film jury. The jury would like to draw attention to the issue that has been depicted in this film: the 200.000 Korean women, who were victims of the military government during World War II. The so-called Comfort Women were hauled off into Japanese military camps and were abused and raped. This film does recollect this sad and black chapter of Japanese and Korean history, the horror of war, into public consciousness. Furthermore the film stands out due to an excellent camera work also at the formal level.