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A documentary that tells the story of Koreans who suffered the atrocities of Japanese imperialism.Park Soo-nam, a Korean-American documentary director in Japan who is gradually going blind, and his daughter Park Ma-yi decided to digitally restore the 16mm film they shot a long time ago.What is recorded in this film is 100,000 feet of the labor, daily life and testimonies of North Korean victims. The documentary reproduces these contents before our eyes and allows them to speak out.

What would it be like for the blind Korean-American second-generation director Park Soo-nam to rely on the directorial vision of his daughter Park’s mother to use digital technology to restore an old 16mm film.In this film, which took 50 years to shoot, the blood, tears and countless corpses of the North Korean people are clearly visible.It's not just the voices of victims of forced labor, atomic bombings and comfort women that are resurrected from a hundred thousand feet of film.

He has fought side by side with North Korean boys on death row, stood up to sing "kimigayo" at the entrance ceremony of a blind school, and sang "bonseonhwa" at the massacre scene, trying to "look back on his nearly one hundred years of life in Japan and find a future there."hope".This documentary is not only an archive of the resistance and struggle of the Korean people in Japan, but also an extraordinary autobiography of a strong woman who refused to admit defeat.

The film was selected into the Forum-Special Screening section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.It was also selected into the wide-angle lens-documentary competition section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival.