Films with: Yi, Kyŏng-yŏng

Kunhamdo Jun jian dao /

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battlesip Island to mine for coal, attempt to escape. Lee Kang-ok is a bandmaster at Kyungsung Hotel. He decides to go to Japan to protect his dauhter So-hee, but he is drafted into Battleship Island by force, being deceived by talk to send him to Japan. On Battleship Island, he does anything to protect his daughter. Choi Chil-sung is the top fighter in Kyungsung. He makes trouble on Battleship Island, but he has a warm heart when he met Oh Mal-nyeon, who was moved to Hashima after going through endless troubles under the Japanese colonization. Park Moo-young belongs to the Korean Independence group. He sneaks onto Battleship Island to rescue a member of the independence group Yoon Hak-chul. In order to cover up all the crimes committed against the Korean people on the battleship island, the Japanese decided to destroy all the evidence including those Korean slaves by burying them in the mining cave. Meanwhile, the Japanese discover that the Koreans plan to escape from Battleship Island, leaving the Japanese with no choice but to murder them...

DVD 12911

Namyŏng-dong 1985

"The controversial prison drama National Security, based on the real-life memoirs of late democracy activist and politician Kim Geun Tae. Premiering at the 2012 Busan Film Festival, the critically acclaimed film portrays the torture endured by Kim when he was illegally arrested during the Chun Doo Hwan regime.... The film is a painful and powerful indictment against Korea's former authoritarian regime and human rights abuses in the name of National Security. On Sptember 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration"--YesAsia website.

DVD 10374