Director LEE Il-ha was born in Korea and has lived in Japan since 2000. LEE has worked with Japanese and Korean broadcasters such as NHK and MBC. LEE’s first feature film, <A Crybaby Boxing Club> tells the story of high school boxers’ growing pain at Korean-Japanese minority school in Tokyo. The film was chosen for the opening film of 2014 DMZ International Documentary Festival. With his new film, <Counters>, director LEE questions the meaning of freedom and j...More

Director LEE Il-ha was born in Korea and has lived in Japan since 2000. LEE has worked with Japanese and Korean broadcasters such as NHK and MBC. LEE’s first feature film, <A Crybaby Boxing Club> tells the story of high school boxers’ growing pain at Korean-Japanese minority school in Tokyo. The film was chosen for the opening film of 2014 DMZ International Documentary Festival. With his new film, <Counters>, director LEE questions the meaning of freedom and justice in the era of far-right conservatism. In <Counters>, director LEE depicts three types of violence: physical violence by civic protesters, verbal violence by freedom of speech marchers, and institutional violence by police and legislature.Less