Souls Protest (2000)

1h 40m
Running Time

January 1, 2000
Release Date

Souls Protest (2000)

1h 40m
Running Time

January 1, 2000
Release Date

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Plot.

Billed as a North Korean "Titanic". On August 15, 1945, Japanese Imperialists were defeated and there echoed in Japan, too, shouts of victory of thousands of Korean people who had been drafted to Japan. They formed a repatriation autonomy to return to their dear homeland. The Japs plot to blow up their ship on the way which is overloaded with thousands of Koreans who requested repatriation; whose number in fact is twice as many as the ship's fixed capacity. Cha Myong Jin and other Koreans who are ignorant of this fact set out with great joy and hope, talking and laughing. Cha Myong Jin meets his fiance on the ship and whispers their future life. But they dream breaks out. The Japs turn the ship to the Maizuru Port under the pretext of refilling the drinking water and drive the Koreans below deck while preparing to blow up the ship.

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Cast & Crew.

Kim Chun Song

Kim Chun Song

Director

Yong-ho Ri

Yong-ho Ri

Actor

Woon-mo Jung

Woon-mo Jung

Actor

Ryon Hwa Kim

Ryon Hwa Kim

Actress

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 2000

Original Name
살아있는 령혼들

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 40m

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This Movie Is About.

sinking ship
rip-off

Wiki.

Souls Protest (Korean: 살아있는 령혼들; lit. Living Souls) is a 2000 North Korean film directed by Kim Chun-song.

The film is an epic dramatisation of a mysterious explosion sinking the Ukishima Maru, while it was on a trip to repatriate Koreans in the wake of World War II. The explosion ship sank 10 days after Japan surrendered to the United States on 15 August 1945. The film supports the Korean view that the explosion was deliberately set off by the ship's Japanese crew. It has been dubbed as "Korea's Titanic".

Souls Protest was imported to South Korea by Narai Film, a Seoul-based film trader, and was approved for release after five minutes of footage was cut which showed jubilant Koreans crediting Kim Il Sung with liberating Korea from Japanese colonial rule. The film was shown intact, however, for its Seoul premiere on 24 August 2001, the 56th anniversary of the incident. One survivor of the incident, Lee Chul-woo, said of the film: "I didn't like the propaganda stuff about Kim Il Sung... But the scene about the explosion was so real, and it is laudable for North Korea to make a movie about this incident."

Souls Protest was later screened at the 2003 Jeonju International Film Festival.

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