Japanese documentary on Vietnamese AO victims on screen

04/07/2008 -- 10:08 PM

Tokyo (VNA) – A documentary made by Japanese director Sakata Masako on Agent Orange victims in Vietnam was on screen in Tokyo , Japan , from June 14-July 4. The film’s elements came from Masako’s personal sorrow of the death of her husband, Greg Davis, an American soldier who came back from the Vietnam war in 1968. After the war, Davis became a photographer and journalist for Time magazine. He died in 2003 from lung cancer that was suspected to be contracted from Agent Orange during the war. Spending three years for studying and collecting data, Masako completed the film in 2007. The 70-minute film featured the last images of her husband, and the memories of the Vietnam war through words of American soldiers who used to be in Vietnam . The film also brought true pictures of the pains that generations of Vietnamese people have been suffering from due to the toxic chemical’s effects. After the shows, audiences raised subscriptions that will be sent to the Vietnam Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims’ Association.-Enditem
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