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It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.
Minemura, who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, was unable to have an abortion, and she was fired. She leaves the hospital and opens a hidden obstetric and gynecological practice on a remote street. This place became a place for women who wanted to get medical help, secretly. One day, when Minemura finds out that the woman who came to him is a virgin, he feels lustful and eventually rapes her.
A port town that prospers through deep-sea fishing for tuna. The incident occurred on the day a fishing boat returned from a long voyage. A woman running a snack bar near the port was attacked and raped. Finally, when the woman tries to see the face of her captor, he punches her in the face, rendering her blind. On another day, a high school girl was also attacked and raped on her way home from school. The woman who lost her eyesight tries desperately to find her culprit so as not to cause any more victims, but she cannot find him. One day, her sister brought her lover to her house. Her partner is a tuna fisherman, and despite being an only child, he has a reputation for being very devoted to his mother. The woman is surprised to see the man who came to her house. That day, she could smell the tuna that came from the criminal. Since she lost her eyesight, she has a keen sense of smell. There is no doubt that this man is the culprit...
A quiet vacation in a secluded cabin by an executive, his wife and their maid is rudely interrupted by two knife wielding bikers, their girlfriend and a naked woman in the bathtub.
Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh realities of life wait just outside the front entrance.
This documentary records Hoaas' personal encounter with the closed society of North Korea. As with her earlier work, Hoaas approaches her film as a cumulation of fragments encompassing different perspectives that together offer a point of entry into a complex society. Her diary-style narration signals her limited personal perspective into this culture, especially given the brief filming period and her difficulty in breaking through the facade of the showcase version of Korea insisted upon by her official guides. Hoaas' restricted visual access, and her reluctance to present over-familiar images of the hardship and depravation informed her decision to use this narrative device to frame her film within the context of the famine crisis that began in 1997 following the failure of crops caused by two consecutive years of heavy flooding.