No Man is an Island

And Yet the Books Season 2

The second season is still dedicated to recording those lovely and respectable weavers, creators, and book lovers who are passionate about books, showing their rich and interesting spiritual world. That little spark…

Maelstrom

Yamaoka Mizuko graduates from art school in New York in 2002 and is living her dream far away from home. After a bicycle accident, she has to depend on a wheelchair and must return to her parents in Japan. Yet, even…

Free Chol Soo Lee

7.4

In 1973, Chol Soo Lee was arrested as a suspect in a murder case in San Francisco’s Chinatown and sentenced to life in prison. It was the result of false testimonies by white witnesses who had difficulty telling…

Sewing Sisters

9.5

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, 12 to 16-year-old girls started working at the Pyeonghwa Market. When their peers went to school, the girls were running a sewing machine. They had labor classes. I heard the name…

The King of Wuxia

King Hu is the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema. The cinematic aesthetics he created has deeply influenced renowned directors such as Tsui Hark and Ang Lee and the film industry worldwide. Traveling to Taiwan,…

Kim Dae Jung Again

Kim Dae Jung competed against Park Chung Hee of the Democratic Republican Party as the presidential candidate of the New Democratic Party, but lost in 1971. He then lead a pro-democracy movement against the Park Chung…

Yumemiru Shogakko

Scala

First, the chandelier is dismantled in the foyer, each string of lamps lowered to the floor one by one. The other retro light fittings come later, after the curtain that lines the walls of the auditorium has been pulled…

The Combat Kings

May 18, 1980, during the Gwangju Democratization Movement. The Chun Doo Hwan regime came to power in a coup d'état by slaughtering peaceful protest crowds. The people continued to fight against the military dictatorship…