A Filmmaker Explored Japan’s Wartime Enslavement of Women. Now He’s Being Sued. Miki Dezaki, the Japanese-American director of “Shusenjo,” a documentary film on so-called comfort women, in Tokyo last month.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times TOKYO — When Miki Dezaki decided to make a documentary for his graduate thesis, he examined a question that reverberates through Japanese politics: