Fwd: New York Screening of "From the Land of Bitter Tears"

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patricia Loo <tortuguero at att.net>
> Subject: New York Screening of "From the Land of Bitter Tears"
>
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> Screening of "From the Land Of Bitter Tears"
>
> A screening of "From the Land of Bitter Tears" (Nigai namidano daichi 
> kara),
> directed by Kana Tomoko will take place on Thursday, September 7, 
> 2006, at 7 pm
> at the Courthouse Theater, 32 Second Avenue, New York, New York.
>
> Japanese film-director Kana Tomoko met Liu Ming in 2003. She was 
> deeply moved
> by the story of Ms. Liu's father, who died in 1995 when an abandoned 
> World War
> II bomb exploded at a construction site where he had been working. In 
> August
> 2003 toxic agents, which killed one person and injured over 40 others, 
> were
> found in Qiqihar, China. More than sixty years after the end of World 
> War II,
> many in various areas of China are still being affected by bombs and 
> chemical
> weapons abandoned by the defeated Japanese Imperial Army. Ms. Liu's 
> story and
> others are chronicled in the documentary, From the Land of Bitter 
> Tears. The
> documentary was completed after Ms. Kano spent ten months traveling 
> throughout
> China, meeting with over sixty residents who were affected by the 
> discarded
> bombs and chemical weapons.
>
> Ms. Kano worked for Japan's NHK as a news director for several years 
> before
> becoming an independent filmmaker. "From the Land of Bitter Tears" is 
> her
> second movie. She has traveled throughout Japan showing the film to 
> raise
> awareness of this chapter in World War II history. Her first 
> documentary film,
> "Mardiyem: What Happen to Her Life," is the story of an Indonesian 
> comfort
> woman.
>
> The screenings are being sponsored by the Center for Asia Pacific 
> Affairs
> (CAPA) and Alliance in Memory of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. CAPA 
> is a
> non-profit organization whose objective is to promote and facilitate 
> cultural
> and educational exchanges between people in the United States and the 
> countries
> of Asia.
>
>
> Patricia Loo
> independent scholar
>