Yang Chia-yun

Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang), born March 1947 and originally from Qingdao, Shandong Province, is one of the second generation directors in Taiwan. She is also regarded as a "pioneer female film director of commercial Taiwanese film during the 1970s and 1980s". In 1998, Yang Chia-yun directed the documentary ''A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"'', which won the 35th Golden Horse Awards for "Best documentary". "The fate and resistance of women are mostly the focus of Chia-yun Yang's movies", among which ''The Unsinkable Miss Calabash'' and ''A Secret Buried For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"'' are the ones that she is personally most satisfied with. Provided by Wikipedia