Yoo Kwan-soon, a female independence activist on the Korean Peninsula and a martyr of the Trinity Movement, was hailed by later Korea as "the Joan of Arc of Korea". She was originally a student at Ewha Academy (now Ewha Women's University). On March 1, 1919, Yoo Kwan-soon participated in the Independence Movement (Trinity Movement) at Tadong Park, Jongno- in the capital of Korea (present-day Seoul, South Korea). She then brought the news of the independence movement back to her hometown and led the local independence movement. Later, Liu Kuanshun was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Japanese colonial authorities. He later died of torture and malnutrition in the Xidaemun Penal Detention Center at the age of 18.
At the Seodaemun Prison in Korea during the Japanese colonial period, a truck carrying a special female prisoner entered here. The female cell head led the female prisoner with a rope to take a routine photo. The female cell head wrote her name "Liu Kuanshun" on a blank piece of paper and pasted it on the chest of the female prisoner, and the prison photographer took a photo of her imprisonment.
The female cell boss reported the so-called crimes committed by Yoo Kuan-shun to the Japanese administrators of the prison. The Japanese cell boss threatened Torayo to obey in prison, but was scorned by Yoo Kuan-shun.
Originally a Korean, Nishida Jiro was proud to join the Japanese gendarmes and worked as a jailer in prison for a job.
The female cell leader took Liu Kuanshun into a room full of female prisoners, and the female prisoners in the room were not surprised at Liu Kuanshun's arrival at all, and looked at her coldly. An elderly female prisoner recognized Liu Kuanshun and accused her of engaging in an independence movement in her hometown, killing her own son and killing her own parents. However, the other female prisoners in the same cell reprimanded the elderly female prisoners, and no one forced you to participate in the independence movement.
The young female prisoner asked Liu Kuanshun to participate in their circle activities, because in the narrow cell, there was only one window, and only by moving more, the body would not be very stiff.
Liu Kuanshun took pity on the elderly female prisoner and gave her his own food, but the elderly female prisoner did not appreciate it and overturned the meal she gave.
Quan Ailuo, a female prisoner at Ewha University, recognized Liu Kuanshun, and Liu Kuanshun saw her haggard appearance, and Quan Ailuo told her that he had once gone on a hunger strike in prison, and later found that the hunger strike was of no use.
The female prisoners sang the Korean folk song "Arirang" in prison, but were forbidden by the female cell boss. Liu Kuanshun called himself like a frog, and then, in order to fight, a group of people learned to call frogs, and were punished by the female cell boss for not giving prison food.
Everyone continued to sing "Arirang", unexpectedly causing a chain reaction in all the cells. The Japanese cell boss was furious at the female prisoners for resisting by singing, and the female cell boss reported to the Japanese cell head that someone had taken the lead in the trouble, and the Japanese cell boss asked the jailer Nishida to find out who was the leader.
Nishida took all the female prisoners from the cell and asked them to shout slogans to find out who was the leader, who knows, which caused the entire female prisoners to resist. The Japanese cell boss was very angry at Nishida's incompetence and instigated him to alienate the female prisoner.
Liu Kuanshun recalled eating with his parents and brother when he was at home, and his brother was a very timid person, and even when he saw the centipede, he would be afraid. The Japanese colonists came to her house to search, and her parents pretended to be angry to block them, and Liu Kuanshun quickly went to the back room to hide all the leaflets and left the house.
Jiro Nishida, bent on integrating into Japanese life, was still despised.
Several of the older female prisoners were taken out under the guise of physical examination, and in the end, although they were released, Liu Kuanshun was taken out again.
Several other female prisoners suspected that Liu Kuanshun had been betrayed by them. In the end, they discover that it was one of the pregnant female prisoners who confessed to Liu Kuanshun.
In the execution cell, Yanagi was severely tortured, humiliated, and beaten by the Japanese cell boss and Jiro Nishida.
Later, in order to punish Liu Kuanshun, they put her alone in a small cell. In such a cell, there is also an old man, and Liu Kuanshun learns from the old people that his brother is also locked up here. A week later, Nishida came over and forced Liu Kuanshun to give in, asking her to take herself out in Japanese, but Yanagi silently refused.
Liu Kuanshun remembered the scene of organizing a parade against the Japanese colonizers in his hometown, shouting "Long live", and the Japanese military police shot and killed his parents.
The scarred Liu Kuanshun was taken back to the women's cell, already injured and unable to speak. The pregnant female prisoner cries that she has been tricked by the Japanese cell boss into giving birth here.
In the winter, the pregnant female prisoner gave birth to a child, and everyone used the cotton in their clothes to make cotton clothes for the children, and Liu Kuanshun used his body temperature to dry diapers for the children. Everyone gathered around to keep warm, amuse the children, and the women's prison got a little angry.
The Japanese cell boss was surprised that Yanagi Kuanshun applied for labor, but he allowed it, assigned her the most tiring and arduous labor, and sent Nishida to monitor her.
Liu Kuanshun told xuejie that he agreed to do labor because he wanted to know the situation outside. Liu Kuanshun inquired about his brother through the opportunity of doing labor.
Nishida, who was spying on Liu Kuanshun, pretended to make her submit, but Liu Kuanshun refused. Ryu Kuanshun's contempt for Nishida humiliated him. Yanagi tells Nishida that he would like to know the time in order to pay tribute to his parents, and Nishida is condemned by his conscience and finally tells her.
The elderly prisoner heard about Liu Kuanshun's brother and told him that life there was not good.
In prison, the female prisoners talked about the scene of the "Trinity Movement" in that year, and did not regret shouting "Long live" during the movement.
Liu Kuanshun, who was overworked, finally fainted, and when the female prisoners were worried, Liu Kuanshun brought outside news and told everyone that today is the first anniversary of the "March 1st Movement". Liu Kuanshun commanded everyone in the prison to shout "Long live", and for a time, the shout of "long live" resounded throughout the cell, and even other cells also shouted.
The guards were on the verge of a great enemy, and the shouts inside the cells reached the outside, and everyone rushed to the streets with flags and shouted "Long live".
The Japanese cell boss was furious and ordered to find the leader in the cell who shouted "Long live". At this time, the female cell boss reported to the Japanese prison director that it was Liu Kuanshun's cell that shouted "long live" first.
In the end, Liu Kuanshun was taken out by the jailers, tortured again, and stripped of his fingernails.
In order to ease relations with the Korean royal family, the Japanese government made peace with the Korean royal family. The princess of the Japanese royal family will be married to the king of the Korean royal family. As a result, the sentences of the women prisoners in the prisons will be reduced, and more than half of the female prisoners will be released from prison. A group of female prisoners were released from prison and prepared to go to the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai to continue their struggle against the Japanese government.
Liu Kuanshun is still locked up in a separate single room and has not been released. A few days later, Liu Kuanshun's brother and sister, who had been released, came to visit Liu Kuanshun, who was still in prison, and her condition was getting worse and worse.
Finally, Liu Kuanshun, who was in prison, died alone, and she did not see the independence of the country until her death.
The question that has always been raised in the film "Resistance: The Story of Liu Kuanshun" is "to live or to fight?" Choose to live, but in the chaotic world and steal peace, become a docile white sheep, warm boiled frog does not know it. The road to resistance is not easy, but Liu Kuanshun's story makes people feel a little warm in the sense of powerlessness. The story told in the film is also simple and direct. But the meaning of each of these lines of dialogue is worth savoring. The film does not deliberately sensationalize or arouse patriotic and revival enthusiasm, but has always narrated how Liu Kuanshun conveyed independent ideas in prison against power, and the power of self-improvement is more obvious in the ordinary.