Born in a foreign land during the Japanese colonial era, director Park Soonam began filming as her journey to discover her lost self and lost language. Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa is the film that led her to documenting the survivors of the Pacific War in Okinawa and “comfort women” after she focused on Korean residents in Japan, Korean victims conscripted into forced labor, and atomic bomb survivors. As it reiterates through the words of many people in the film, their life path is beyond description, and the camera often focuses on the complex subtle expressions and gestures of these silent people, leaving their voices behind. Thus, the “path of resentment” unfolds on the screen, and what we gradually face is the experiences and memories that history sometimes has dismissed by applying rhetoric to liberation from Japan. As the issues of region, gender, and economics are intertwined with the stories of those who were separated only by nationality, differences in each position that have been omitted or hidden are revealed, goodwill is recovered, and a moment of sympathy and condolence is created, too. It is an irony that this may have been possible only because the director began filming from a “foreign land.” The film ends with the director declaring that she will continue this journey with these various “others,” both among and toward them. Park Soonam is now over 80 years old, but her journey, which started more than 30 years ago, is still in progress. [LEE Yumi]