National Security

National Security

2012 · 106 min · KO · 7.5 (19 votes)
Dir. Chung Ji-young · Starring Park Won-sang, Lee Kyung-young, Dong Bang-woo, Kim Eui-sung, Seo Dong-soo, Kim Joong-ki · Music Shin Min
DramaHistory

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

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This film feels like a grim, unflinching look into the darkest corners of political repression. It's a tense, suffocating experience that highlights the brutal realities of a fight for freedom.

oppressivetensegrittyunflinchingsteadyperiod dramapolitical thrillerrealisticpolitical oppressionresistancehuman rightshistorical trauma
based on true storytorture chambertorture1980sdemocratization movementseoulsouth korea
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