Blood and Bones
Drama
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
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A raw, decades-spanning portrait of a man's relentless ambition and the corrosive effect of prejudice. It's a stark, often brutal look at survival and the compromises made in a harsh world.
grittybleakintenseunflinchingsteadysocial realismperiod dramacharacter studyidentityexploitationambitionprejudice
immigrantbased on novel or bookabusive fatherosaka, japanmistressdomestic violencefamily conflictloan shark1920sfactory ownerkoreatownzainichishōwa era (1926-89)korean immigrant
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