''Souls Protest'' () is a 2000 North Korean film directed by Kim Chun-song. The film is an epic dramatisation of a mysterious explosion sinking the '' Ukishima Maru'', while it was on a trip to repatriate Koreans in the wake of

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. The explosion ship sank 10 days after Japan surrendered to the United States on 15 August 1945. The film supports the Korean view that the explosion was deliberately set off by the ship's Japanese crew. It has been dubbed as "Korea's ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unite ...

''". ''Souls Protest'' was imported to South Korea by Narai Film, a

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

-based film trader, and was approved for release after five minutes of footage was cut which showed jubilant Koreans crediting

Kim Il Sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

with liberating Korea from Japanese colonial rule. The film was shown intact, however, for its Seoul premiere on 24 August 2001, the 56th anniversary of the incident. One survivor of the incident, Lee Chul-woo, said of the film: "I didn't like the propaganda stuff about Kim Il Sung... But the scene about the explosion was so real, and it is laudable for North Korea to make a movie about this incident." ''Souls Protest'' was later screened at the 2003

Jeonju International Film Festival Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent ...

.Kim Tae-jong
"North Korean Film on Tokto to Screen"
. ''HanCinema'', 12 April 2005; originally published by ''The Korea Times''. Retrieved on 27 October 2008.

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References

. ''People's Korea'', 25 July 2001. Retrieved on 27 October 2008. * Rajpal, Minita

. ''CNN.com'', 7 September 2001. Retrieved on 27 October 2008. * Cho, Grace M.
"Voices from the ''teum'': Synesthetic truma and the ghosts of the Korean diaspora"
''The Affective Turn'', pp. 151–169. Duke University Press, 2007. .

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