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Children Untold
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- 1Miwa Nishikawa's 'Children Untold' draws praise for orphan portrait●At the end of World War II, there were around 120,000 orphans in Japan. Miwa Nishikawa's "Children Untold" is a measured
Japanese director Miwa Nishikawa's new film 'Children Untold' is being reviewed as a measured but moving portrait of a girl growing up in the hardscrabble years after World War II, when Japan had around 120,000 orphans. The film explores one child's plight in that desperate era, and critics are highlighting its restrained, humane treatment of a rarely told chapter of postwar Japanese history.