Zainichi The Story of Koreans in Postwar Japan

Portraying the fiftyyear history of zainichi longterm residents in Japan Koreans after the liberation of Korea traces of zainichi evoked in this film question the concepts of postwar democracy and pacifism in Japan With copious stock footage and testimony the first half of the film History chronologically traces the various experiences of zainichi from Japans defeat Korean liberation through 1990 The latter half People focuses on first second and thirdgeneration zainichi respectively vividly depicting how they live