National Security

For the sake of my country.

A harrowing, historically grounded account of political torture and state brutality that centers on one man's ordeal and resistance during South Korea's authoritarian period.

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.