Herstory

2018 [KOREAN]

Action / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 292 292

Director

Top cast

Hae-suk Kim as Bae Jeong-gil
Jun-han Kim as Lee Sang-il
Yoo-Young Lee as Ryu Seon-yeong
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1023.74 MB
1280*534
Korean 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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1.93 GB
1920*800
Korean 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lilianaoana 8 / 10

Important story

It's shocking how invested in their national identity the Japanese are that they refuse to come to terms with their own past and deny it and obliterate the victims' claims and suffering at all costs. That they still haven't acknowledged it and refuse to, well they acknowledged it happened but it wasn't that bad and certainly they do not tell their own people, put it in the history books or apologize to the countries, if not the victims as such. Very filthy behaviour and inhuman honestly. The Japanese were awful in WWII, before and afterwards and they partially still are with their blatant xenophobia and most everyone knows it except for them.As for the movie, it is touching and I am glad there were no actual reenactments, only spoken accounts, and even those are heartbreaking and I actually recently saw this in an episode of the drama Tomorrow which was pretty graphic and explicit and frankly how can humans be capable of this I will never understand... I did feel that there is some unnecessary dramatization with some of the characters and Mrs. Moon's very loud boss lady friend bothered me in each scene. I don't know if people talked and behaved like that in the 90s or if this is just meant to bring some light comedy or what but it didn't really work for me. I don't know if these grannies' personalities are based on any real people, but most likely their stories are.I rated it high because I think the story comes through very well, and the actors made the characters come alive with all their quirks and foibles and the look and feel of the movie felt of that era in a way and my own preferences and dislikes for certain patterns of behaviour may be very far from how people actually are. And also I'm sure the cast is extra famous in Korea, I know some of these faces are very familiar to me, even if I cannot place them, I know I have seen Kim Hae-sook's face often enough and some of the others and probably a lot of the cultural references and peculiarities went completely over my head.
Reviewed by tkdlifemagazine 6 / 10

A Compelling and Important Story

This film is based upon a true story. It tells the story of a 1990's very public and very drawn out case by Korean Comfort women against the Japanese Government for atrocities against them during World War II. The film is well made and runs the gamut from heartbreaking to infuriating to uplifting. The film tells the story of a painful time in Far East Asian history from a Korean perspective, and more specifically, from a Korean Woman's perspective. These victimized women were faced with the additional burden of feeling shame over the fact that their service involved involuntary intimacy. This is almost hard to comprehend when watching the film. The Direction, cinematography and acting are superb. The cast is large, but it is filled with talents actors. They do a good job of portraying the Korean comfort women, the Japanese deniers and defenders, and the cast of bureaucrats and court players. This is an important film on many levels. I applaud Well Go USA for distributing it.

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