Film: White Skin, Yellow Commander/ Shiroi Hada to Kiiroi Taicho
(Manao Horiuchi, Japan, 1960) This film caused a storm of protest in the Netherlands and has never been screened here before. In WWII the 'good' Japanese camp commander Yamaji Tadashi governs the internment camp for women and children Kampili on Sulawesi. Cheered by the women, Yamaji is acquitted at the end of the film. The female roles are played by personnel and relatives of the American embassy in Tokyo. Dutch subtitles. With an English spoken introduction by Kaori Maekawa and Remco Raben.