Kokosuni (2021)

Genre

documentary film

Country

Korea

How it feels

This documentary tells the personal story of a woman named KokoSunyi, who was a victim of sexual slavery during wartime. It mixes her dramatized story with interviews from historians and confrontations with people who deny these events happened.

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What happens

Kokosuni (Korean: 코코순이) or KOKO SunYi is a 2022 historical documentary film produced by national broadcaster KBS. The subject is the so-called "comfort women", the victims of sexual slavery in occupied Korea and other Asia-Pacific territories, and the historical revisionism of its existence. The documentary was directed by KBS reporter Lee Seok-jae. The personal story of a woman named KokoSunyi, is dramatised in the documentary, and is interspersed with interviews with historians, and interactions with revisionists such as J. Mark Ramseyer. Lee Hyori was featured on the soundtrack. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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