Park Yeol

The events covered by this movie should be widely known. In 1923 after an earthquake in Tokyo the Japanese massacred 6000 Koreans in Japan. Later they tried to frame an independence activist Park Yeol for attempting to assassinate Hirohito to excuse the massacre. The movie shows some good Japanese who didn't like the imperialist agenda.

There isn't enough of the massacre in this movie. It was like practice for Nanjing. So more could have been shown. The focus is on the activist, his Japanese lover who was also an activist sympathetic to the Korean cause. Their over the top personalities are captured by the animated performances of Lee Je Hoon and Choi Hee Seo. Some might find the trial and imprisonment a little draggy but that's what happened to him.

Interesting subject matter. Still worth a watch.