Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s documentary about a Korean immigrant’s wrongful conviction doubles as a portrait of the brutality of incarceration.
vibrates with this broader understanding of incarceration. Directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi piece together a compact story about Lee’s life and the role his case played in galvanizing generations of Asian Americans. In 1977, four years into Lee’s sentence, an enterprising Korean investigative reporter came across his case. K.W.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this capacious documentary, which adeptly interweaves archival footage with interviews with Lee’s supporters and friends, is the filmmakers’ precise, unwavering focus on constructing a complex portrait of Lee, who died in 2014. The film opens with a court interview of its subject — affable, striking, handsome. He speaks with inspiring clarity about his case. One wonders if, in another life, he could have been a movie star.
Ha and Yi supplement this intimate footage with interviews from Lee’s longtime friend Ranko Yamada, a young Japanese woman who befriended Lee before his arrest, and a scripted voiceover composed of his words and speeches as well as excerpts adapted from Lee’s posthumously published memoir,
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