Story of Korean sex-slaves during World War II. Somehow doesn't make the Japanese evil gruesome enough, but I guess they wanted to make it easy enough viewing without rubbing the horrific details in everybody's face the entire movie. A gripping drama connecting the tragic events with how one of the victims deals emotionally with the shame decades later. A important movie, though not a total homerun.

I was angered as thinking about those many women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during the World War II. I was infuriated about how their dark history was clumsily and blatantly presented through rote storytelling and incompetent filmmaking. Feeling depressed and disgusted more and more, I constantly sighed to myself with resignation during the morning screening on March 1st, which happens to be the Independence Movement Day in South Korea.

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