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Free Chol Soo Lee

08/12/2022

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1hr 23min

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Documentary

,Crime

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Chol Soo Lee
  • Sebastian Yoon
  • Ranko Yamada
  • K.W. Lee
  • Jeff Adachi

    Directors

  • Julie Ha
  • Quyên Nguyen-Le
  • Her Yoon-soo
  • Akira Boch

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • XTR
  • ITVS
  • Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • Korean
  • Spanish
  • English

Cast

Chol Soo Lee

Self (archive footage)

Sebastian Yoon

Narrator (voice)

Ranko Yamada

Self - Friend; Defense Committee

K.W. Lee

Self - Investigative Reporter

Jeff Adachi

Self - Activist

David Kakishiba

Self - Activist

Jay Kun Yoo

Self - Chair, Defense Committee

Grace Kim

Self - Vice-chair, Defense Committee

Warren Furutani

Self - L.A. Defense Committee

Leonard Weinglass

Self - Defense Attorney (archive footage)

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