I Can Speak

I Can Speak
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
아이 캔 스피크
Revised RomanizationAi Kaen Seupikeu
Directed byKim Hyun-seok
Written byYoo Seung-hee
Produced byLee Ha-young
StarringNa Moon-hee
Lee Je-hoon
CinematographyYou Yok
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byLee Dong-joon
Production
companies
Distributed byLotte Entertainment
Little Big Pictures
Release date
  • September 21, 2017 (2017-09-21)
Running time
119 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguagesKorean
English
Box officeUS$23.3 million[1]

I Can Speak is a 2017 South Korean comedy-drama film based on a true story of comfort women directed by Kim Hyun-seok and distributed by Lotte Entertainment.[2] The genre of the film are both comedy and drama. The film depicts the story of the resolution of conviction for “comfort women” (HR121) of the Japanese military in 2007. Though the film is a comedy, the genre serves as a vehicle to discuss the deeper topic of Korean comfort women.[citation needed] The way that film illustrated Na Ok-Bun's enterprising attitude of her life and her courageously testifying in front of the whole world were applauded. The film stars Na Moon-hee as Na Ok-Bun, with Lee Je-hoon as Park Min-Jae. The scene of Na Ok-Bun's testimony to the United States Congress was filmed at the Capitol Building of Virginia, in the city of Richmond.

  1. ^ "I Can Speak (2017)". koreanfilm.or.kr. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  2. ^ "'아이 캔 스피크' 할머니 트럼프가 다가가서 포옹". The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-12-10.