Director Lee Il Ha was born in Korea and has lived in Japan since 2000. Lee has worked with Japanese and Korean broadcasters such as NHK and MBC. His first feature film, ‘A Crybaby Boxing Club’ tells the story of high school boxers’ growing pain at Korean-Japanese minority school in Tokyo. The film was chosen for the opening film of 2014 DMZ International Documentary Festival. With his new film, ‘Counters’, director Lee questions the meaning of freedom and justice in the era of far-right conservatism. In ‘Counters’, director Lee depicts three types of violence: physical violence by civic protesters, verbal violence by freedom of speech marchers, and institutional violence by police and legislature.
(Source: koreanfilm.or.kr)