On August 8, 1973, KIM Dae-Jung, then a South Korean legislator, dissident, and outspoken critic of South Korea’s military dictatorship, was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo during a secret trip to Japan. The abduction caused a major international furor that involved not only the highest levels of the Japanese and South Korean governments but that of the U.S. as well. Five days later, Kim Dae-jung mysteriously reappeared in Seoul, blindfolded, wounded and dazed. Twenty-five...more

On August 8, 1973, KIM Dae-Jung, then a South Korean legislator, dissident, and outspoken critic of South Korea’s military dictatorship, was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo during a secret trip to Japan. The abduction caused a major international furor that involved not only the highest levels of the Japanese and South Korean governments but that of the U.S. as well. Five days later, Kim Dae-jung mysteriously reappeared in Seoul, blindfolded, wounded and dazed. Twenty-five years later, Kim Dae-jung was elected President of a democratic South Korea and shortly thereafter, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Only in the past few years has the world learned who really conspired against this emerging leader, and who stopped the conspirators at the last possible moment. KT fictionalizes and explores the complex motives of the key participants in a powerful, moving, and visually striking film.less