Anarchist from Colony (2017) on Netflix
Park Yeol leads Bulryeongsa, an anarchist group of Korean and Japanese members resisting Japanese colonial rule. With comrade Fumiko Kaneko, he plots a bombing against Prince Hirohito.
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Bulryeongsa is an anarchist group of fourteen Korean and five Japanese members, and Park Yeol leads it. The group argues over methods for resisting Japanese harassment of Koreans, and Yeol settles on a bomb aimed at Prince Hirohito. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 then ruins much of Tokyo, and Home Minister Mizuno Rentarō spreads word that Koreans are poisoning wells and setting fires. Japanese vigilantes take revenge on Koreans, killing more than six thousand in the Kanto Massacre. To push the massacre out of public discussion, Mizuno builds a case against Yeol's group over the prince. Fumiko Kaneko, Yeol's Japanese comrade and partner, is charged alongside him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Anarchist from Colony (2017)
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- Anarchist from Colony is set mainly in Tokyo, but the production shot no scenes on location there; filming ran six weeks over a total of 24 shooting days.
- Choi Hee-seo, who plays Kaneko Fumiko, recommended Lee Je-hoon for the part of Park Yeol, noting that his sharp gaze overlapped with the image of Park Yeol.
- Choi Hee-seo had appeared in director Lee Joon-ik's earlier film Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet, but Anarchist from Colony was her first leading role, chosen for her Japanese-language proficiency.
- The film is based on the real anarchist and revolutionary Pak Yŏl, played by Lee Je-hoon, who organized the group Futei-sha, called Heukdohoe in Korean, which planned to assassinate Japan's Crown Prince Hirohito during Japanese colonial rule of Korea.
- The real event behind the film, the Kanto Massacre, took the lives of over 6000 Koreans and began from rumours the Hongō Komagome police heard about Koreans poisoning wells and starting fires.
