Free Chol Soo Lee
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Original title: Free Chol Soo Lee
Original language: enIMDB: tt16376512
TMDB: 913824
Release date: Friday, 12th August 2022
Adult: No
Genres:
DocumentaryCrime
Duration: 1h 23min
Popularity: 8.81
Rate: 7.4 / 11 votes
Overview: On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
Popularity: 8.81
Rate: 7.4 / 11 votes
Overview: On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
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Chol Soo Lee
(Self (archive footage))
(Self (archive footage))Sebastian Yoon (Narrator (voice))
(Narrator (voice))Ranko Yamada (Self - Friend; Defense Committee)
(Self - Friend; Defense Committee)K.W. Lee (Self - Investigative Reporter)
(Self - Investigative Reporter)Jeff Adachi (Self - Activist)
(Self - Activist)David Kakishiba (Self - Activist)
(Self - Activist)Jay Kun Yoo (Self - Chair, Defense Committee)
(Self - Chair, Defense Committee)Grace Kim (Self - Vice-chair, Defense Committee)
(Self - Vice-chair, Defense Committee)Warren Furutani (Self - L.A. Defense Committee)
(Self - L.A. Defense Committee)Leonard Weinglass
(Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))
(Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))Josiah “Tink” Thompson (Self - Private Investigator)
(Self - Private Investigator)Gail Whang (Self - Bay Area Defense Committee)
(Self - Bay Area Defense Committee)Jai Lee Wong (Self - L.A. Defense Committee)
(Self - L.A. Defense Committee)Mike Suzuki (Self - Bay Area Defense Committee)
(Self - Bay Area Defense Committee)Me Yea Lee (Self - Mother of Chol Soo Lee (archive footage))
(Self - Mother of Chol Soo Lee (archive footage))Leonard Tauman (Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))
(Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))Tony Serra (Self - Defense Attorney)
(Self - Defense Attorney)Stuart Hanlon (Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))
(Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage))Frank Falzon (Self - San Francisco Police Dept. (archive footage))
(Self - San Francisco Police Dept. (archive footage))Sandra Gin (Self - Reporter (archive footage))
(Self - Reporter (archive footage))Sung Soo Yoo (Self - Defense Committee)
(Self - Defense Committee)Richard Kim (Self - Professor, UC Davis)
(Self - Professor, UC Davis)Videos
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