Comfort Women Unit 74 慰安妇七十四分队 (1994) (Douban suggests "Prostitute 74th Branch") is not a well-known movie. I wonder why a Russian man has chosen to produce a deadpan amateur dub. But it's still interesting...
The only alternative is a degraded Youku clip. An interesting film, which I expected might be like Doomsday Killer 末日杀手 (1993) (campy guizisploitation) or Death Camp Escape 冲出死亡营 (1993) (a dark, critical look at human nature, coincidentally set during the war).
This is very slightly more ideologically and spiritually sound, with the message of feminine solidarity undercut only slightly by the very 1990s scenes that invite the viewer to ogle the comfort women.
Like in Doomsday Killer, plenty of blood is spilled, and it is, I guess, an attempt at a more cathartic version of history. In this one, the comfort women rise up against the ghoulish Japanese and revolt, taking up arms...
The disturbing final scene of the women gunned down one-by-one while attempting to flee is one I don't fully understand, or I'm not confident enough to hold forth on it. It's a shame that nobody has really written about the '90s comfort women films.
It's fun to look back at old credits, because this is credited to the man behind 1976 Cultural Revolution classic Newcomers in a Mountain Village 山村新人. If you want to watch it without a Russian man talking over it, you'll have to make do with this...
v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU…
v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU…
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