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Punishment Island: Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. With Akira Nitta, Kei Satô, Kinzô Shin, Taiji Tonoyama. Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school.
27 de abr. de 2017 · 27 April 2017. Unmarried girls who got pregnant used to be seen as bringing shame to their families in parts of Uganda, so they were taken to a tiny island and left to die. The lucky ones were...
22 de jun. de 2021 · Katharina 22 June 2021. 1 Comment. The ancient people of the Gorillas Highlands region came up with several horrible ways to discourage girls from getting pregnant prematurely. On Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi, this role was played by Akampene or Punishment Island. Maudah Kyitaragabiirwe, 86, is the last person saved from this tiny island.
Año: 1966. Título original: Shokei no shima - Punishment Island (Captive's Island). Sinopsis: Un hombre joven regresa a la isla en la que fue castigado cuando era niño. Fue enviado allí para que no revelase la identidad del policía militar que asesinó a su familia.
4 de oct. de 2017 · The story of Akampene island on Lake Bunyonyi has been told as a myth for the longest time. It is an island where girls that got pregnant out of wedlock were abandoned. On September 24, during the tenth Bayimba International Festival celebrations, Punishment Island, a documentary by Laura Cini about Akampene, got its world premiere ...
A step back. In South-Western Uganda, the stunning fairy-tale looking Lake Bunyonyi is dominated by the peaks of two volcanoes and dotted with 29 little islands. One of those is called Akampene, punishment in the local language. There, women who got pregnant breaking the taboo of premarital sex were abandoned by their fathers.
Akampene Island is better known as Punishment Island. It is deserted, save for two trees, one long dead, one in the protracted process that is the floral version of breathing your last. It is in a thick tangle of reed and tall grass. The islands around it are far busier, with houses, tourist comfort resorts.
