Minority Opinion

2015 film by Kim Sung-je

Minority Opinion

Theatrical poster

Directed by| Kim Sung-je
Written by| Kim Sung-je
Based on| Minority Opinion
by Son A-ram
Produced by| Im Yeong-ho
Cheon Sung-il
Starring| Yoon Kye-sang
Yoo Hae-jin
Kim Ok-vin
Cinematography| Kim Dong-young
Edited by| Kim Sang-bum
Music by| Jo Yeong-wook

Production
companies

Cinema Service
Harimao Pictures

Distributed by| 9ers Entertainment

Release date

* June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)

Running time

| 126 minutes
Country| South Korea
Language| Korean
Box office| US$2.6 million[1]

Minority Opinion (Korean: 소수의견; RR: Sosuuigyeon), released internationally as The Unfair, is a 2015 South Korean legal drama film written and directed by Kim Sung-je, starring Yoon Kye-sang, Yoo Hae-jin and Kim Ok-vin.[2][3][4][5] It was adapted from Sohn Ah-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.[6][7][8][9]

## Plot

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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.

## Cast

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* Yoon Kye-sang as Yoon Jin-won
* Yoo Hae-jin as Jang Dae-seok
* Kim Ok-vin as Gong Soo-kyung
* Lee Geung-young as Park Jae-ho
* Jang Gwang as Kim Hee-taek's father
* Kim Eui-sung as Prosecutor
* Kwon Hae-hyo as Judge
* Kim Hyeong-jong as Kim Soo-man
* Noh Young-hak as Kim Hee-taek
* Oh Yeon-ah as Yoo In-ha
* Kwak In-joon as Park Kyung-chul
* Uhm Tae-goo as Lee Seung-joon
* Jo Bok-rae as Public prosecutor
* Kim Jong-soo as Jo Goo-hwan
* Park Gyu-chae as Professor Yeom
* Ahn Sang-woo as Moon Hee-sung
* Choi Soo-han as Park Shin-woo
* Yoon Dong-hwan as Assistant prosecutor general
* Park Hae-soo as Goo-hwan's assistant
* Park Chul-min as Judge Kim Joon-bae (cameo)

## Release

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The shoot wrapped on June 3, 2013, but because of the film's political content, it took two years to find a distributor.[5][10] Minority Opinion received a theatrical release on June 24, 2015.[11]

## Awards and nominations

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Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result

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2015  | 24th Buil Film Awards | Best Supporting Actor  | Lee Geung-young | Won
Best Screenplay  | Kim Sung-je, Son A-ram  | Won
Best Cinematography  | Kim Dong-young  | Nominated
35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards[12] | Top 10 Films of the Year  | Minority Opinion | Won
36th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Supporting Actor  | Lee Geung-young | Nominated
Best New Director  | Kim Sung-je  | Nominated
Best Screenplay  | Kim Sung-je, Son A-ram  | Won
2016 | 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Supporting Actor (Film) | Lee Geung-young | Won
Best New Director (Film) | Kim Sung-je | Nominated

## See also

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* Two Doors, a 2012 documentary about the same incident

## References

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1. ^ "The Unfair (2015)". Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
2. ^ Oh, Mi-jung (20 March 2013). "Yoon Kye Sang's Minority Opinion to Start Shooting on March 21". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
3. ^ Lee, Sun-min (21 March 2013). "Yoon Kye-sang is back in the movies". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
4. ^ Ahn, Woorim (2 June 2015). "Who Respects Minority Opinion?". BNTNews. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
5. ^ a b Kim, Yeon-ji (29 June 2015). "Yoon still 'craves' acting". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
6. ^ Heo, Hwan-ju (1 May 2010). 철거민이 경찰을 죽였다...법정에서 진실이 밝혀질까?. Pressian (in Korean). Retrieved 17 June 2015.
7. ^ "Yongsan disaster revisited". The Korea Times. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
8. ^ Lee, Seong-hee (16 January 2013). "4 Years Since the Yongsan Disaster: "They Killed My Family, Yet It's Still a Vacant Lot. What was the Hurry? Kicking the People Out First..."". Kyunghyang Shinmun. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
9. ^ Hong, Joo-hee (7 January 2014). "Reel life: When cinema tackles true events". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
10. ^ Lee, Eun-ah (10 June 2013). "Yoon Kye-sang, Kim Ok-vin's New Film Cranks Up". TenAsia. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014.
11. ^ Won, Ho-jung (30 June 2015). "Herald Review: Ugly side of justice rears head in Minority Opinion". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
12. ^ Conran, Pierce (2 November 2015). "THE THRONE Tops Korean Association of Film Critics Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 6 November 2015.

## External links

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* Official website (in Korean)
* Minority Opinion at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
* Minority Opinion at IMDb
* Minority Opinion at HanCinema