Minority Opinion
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| Directed by | Kim Sung-je |
| Produced by | Im Yeong-ho Cheon Sung-il |
| Written by | Kim Sung-je |
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Minority Opinion by Son A-ram |
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Yoon Kye-sang Yoo Hae-jin Kim Ok-bin |
| Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
| Cinematography | Kim Dong-young |
| Edited by | Kim Sang-bum |
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126 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Minority Opinion (Hangul: 소수의견; RR: Sosuuigyeon), released internationally as The Unfair, is a 2015 South Korean courtroom drama film written and directed by Kim Sung-je, starring Yoon Kye-sang, Yoo Hae-jin and Kim Ok-bin. It was adapted from Son A-ram's novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the "Yongsan tragedy," in which 40 tenants protesting against insufficient compensation for the urban renewal redevelopment of their Yongsan neighborhood clashed with riot police on January 20, 2009, that resulted in the death of five tenant-evictees and one police officer.
Tenants who have been evicted from their homes are in the middle of a sit-in protest, when the police arrive. A 20-year-old police officer and a 16-year-old boy, the son of a demonstrator, end up dead. The boy's father, Park Jae-ho gets arrested for the cop's death, but he insists it was self-defense and that he had only been trying to protect his son from being beaten by the riot police. Rookie public defender Yoon Jin-won is initially doubtful of Park's claims, until he gets approached by reporter Gong Soo-kyung who has her own suspicions about the government's account of the incident. Yoon then teams up with fellow lawyer Jang Dae-seok to pursue the truth through a jury trial.
The shoot wrapped on June 3, 2013, but because of the film's political content, it took two years to find a distributor.Minority Opinion received a theatrical release on June 24, 2015.
Two Doors, a 2012 documentary about the same incident
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