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Long before ‘Squid Game,’ South Korea filmmakers elevated the underdog

TOKYO — To fully understand South Korea’s megahit “Squid Game,” a good place to start is summer 1987. In the aftermath of mass pro-democracy protests, a group of fledgling filmmakers in Seoul published a manifesto denouncing censorship under 26 years of military-directed rule that had muzzled their creativity. “Making movies in this country is like […]