Free Chol Soo Lee
Release Date: 2022-08-12
Language: EN
Country: 🇺🇸 US
Rating:
⭐ 7.3 / 10
( 12 votes )
Runtime: 1h 23m
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)
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Sebastian Yoon
Narrator (voice)
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Ranko Yamada
Self - Friend; Defense Committee
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K.W. Lee
Self - Investigative Reporter
Jeff Adachi
Self - Activist
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David Kakishiba
Self - Activist
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Jay Kun Yoo
Self - Chair, Defense Committee
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Grace Kim
Self - Vice-chair, Defense Committee
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Warren Furutani
Self - L.A. Defense Committee
Leonard Weinglass
Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage)
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Josiah “Tink” Thompson
Self - Private Investigator
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Gail Whang
Self - Bay Area Defense Committee
