Herstory (2018)

Original title

허스토리

Directed by

Min Kyu-dong

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

12

Rating

8.7 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of women in Busan take the Japanese government to court over the sexual slavery of Korean comfort women during World War II. The film follows their legal fight and personal struggles to seek justice.

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What happens

Herstory (Korean: 허스토리; RR: Heoseutori) is a 2018 South Korean drama film directed by Min Kyu-dong. It stars Kim Hee-ae and Kim Hae-sook, alongside Ye Soo-jung, Moon Sook, Lee Yong-nyeo, Kim Sun-young, Kim Jun-han, and Lee Yoo-young. Based on the real-life story of the trials that took place in Shimonoseki in the 1990s, the film follows a group of Busan-based women who engaged in a court case against the Japanese government to highlight the ordeals of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery as comfort women by the Japanese military during World War II. It was released in theaters in South Korea on June 27, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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