
Through the Night
2002-11-02 · 133 min · ★ 8.0
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
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- Kim Soo-jin
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- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
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Jun Fubuki
Mansaku Fuwa
Juro Kara
Kirin Kiki
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Naomasa Musaka
Takashi Nishina
Eiji Okuda
Reisen Ri
Jundai Yamada
Taro Yamamoto
Masayuki Yui
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