Hanayome - San (Mail Order Bride) First Prize Winner
Translation of Award Certificate: THIRD Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Awards for Alternative Film & Video Awarded to Beth Mondragon Williams First Prize for Video (feature) for Hanayome-San
Hanayome-San was a euphemism for mail-order-bride used in the Philippines in the 80's to refer to arranged marriages for economic convenience between Japanese nationals and Filipina women. (A teen-aged Filipina is pressured by her own parents to marry a middle -aged Japanese man with little to no English language skills. The young girl ends up being raped by her supposed husband on their first night together. Her older sister, also a hanayome-san, escapes from her equally abusive husband in Japan, bringing shame to her family.)