News Summary

• "Children Untold" is a drama built from archival testimony about Japan's war orphans.
• Director Nishikawa Miwa says the project forced her to ask how much of yourself a person can give up before survival stops meaning anything at all.
• The film opens the Toronto Intl.
• Film Festival’s Platform competition and arrives in Japanese theaters Oct.
• “I portray Kotoko as a girl who rebels against the idea that, simply because she was born female, she could be treated according to the desires of others,” Nishikawa says.