A Resistance

Feb 27, 2019

1h 45m

★ 8.0

May our cries be not forgotten.

Overview

17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Lotte Entertainment

DCG Plus

A Resistance Trailers

Cast

Yu Gwan-sun

Ko A-sung

Kim Hyang-hwa

Kim Sae-byuk

Kwon Ae-ra

Kim Yae-eun

Lee Ok-e

Jeong Ha-dam

Nishida

Ryu Kyung-soo

Yu Jong-gwon

Choi Moo-seong

Young Yu Gwan-sun

Kim Ah-song

Male Prisoner

Jin Ho-eun

Manager

Lee Young-suk

Lim Myeong-ae

Kim Ji-seong

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear, and devises cruel experiments to scare her, to no avail. Once she realizes her guilt is unfounded, Lise begins to play Starker's game, but even though she begins living a better life, she doesn't forget the atrocities she has seen and experienced.

4.6

Deported Women of the SS Special Section

Nov 23, 1976

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.

4.4

Escape from Women's Prison

Aug 18, 1978

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.

7.7

Harmony

Jan 28, 2010

Jeong-hye gives a birth to a baby boy in the prison. Her and other inmates create a women's choir to compete in the national choir contest, to meet and greet their families and loving ones.

6.8

Four Minutes

Jun 23, 2006

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

7.2

Vera Drake

Oct 22, 2004

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

7.1

White Oleander

Oct 11, 2002

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

7.2

The Edge of Heaven

Sep 27, 2007

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

5.2

People I Know

Nov 21, 2002

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

5.2

Nameless Stars

Oct 30, 1959

The son of a freedom fighter, Sang-hun is a member of an anti-Japanese resistance group called "Seongjinhoe," composed of students who share a dedication to the cause of liberation. Their spiritual guide is a teacher named Song Un-in. One day, Yeong-ae, whose brother is a detective in the Japanese police force charged with monitoring independence movements, joins their group. Following a series of sporadic incidents, the students gather one night to resolve on an uprising, but are discovered by the police. Young-ae is wrongfully accused of betraying their plans, but she risks her life in order to allow the group members to escape. The morning after, the students of Gwangju rise up against the Japanese government.

6.6

Double Jeopardy

Sep 24, 1999

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

7.3

Assassination

Jul 22, 2015

In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.

5.4

99 Women

Mar 5, 1969

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.

4.6

Barbed Wire Dolls

Apr 22, 1976

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

1.8

Chain Gang Women

Sep 22, 1971

A shackled murderer and marijuana offender escape from a Georgia chain gang.

5.3

Black Mama, White Mama

Jan 19, 1973

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.