Female Empowerment Comes of Age!
FROM SOUTH KOREA: I’ve watched thousands of martial arts movies, but I’ve never witnessed one like director Lim Kyeong-taek’s No Mercy, which recently played at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Throughout the movie and even during the credits, you could have heard a pin drop. I didn’t see anyone leave their seats. When the crowd filed out of the theater at the end, people barely looked at one another. My guess is no one could escape the unspeakable premise presented by the movie’s gruesomely uncomfortable plot.
In-ae (played by Lee Si-young) is a bodyguard who, because of some previous brutal tactics she used to help a client, gets sent to prison. Upon release, she assures her mentally challenged, high-school-age sister Eun-hye that she’ll never leave again. Later, Eun-hye unwittingly falls
