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The Women Outside

The Women Outside (1996)

July. 16,1996
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5.5
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They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to be forced into the world's oldest profession. They're the women who work in the camptowns that surround U.S. military bases in South Korea. In 40 years, over a million women have worked in Korea's military sex industry, but their existence has never been officially acknowledged by either government. In The Women Outside, a film by J.T. Orinne Takagi and Hye Jung Park, some of these women bravely speak out about their lives for the first time. The film raises provocative questions about military policy, economic survival, and the role of women in global geopolitics

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Listonixio
1996/07/16

Fresh and Exciting

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filippaberry84
1996/07/17

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Hayden Kane
1996/07/18

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Kien Navarro
1996/07/19

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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