It was only a fax message that they sent to notice to close the factory and to fire the employees of Sumida Electronics in 1989, Korea. Women workers who woke up to find they became jobless overnight headed for Tokyo. They had stayed in front of the head office of Sumida Electronics for about 8 months, and struggled to demand a retraction of their factory closure and dismissal notice. Thousands of Japanese were joined their struggle with the workers there together and until now they has influenced the life of the women workers. What makes the Korean women workers could be a first love of Japanese?
This film is a story about the Sumida Battle but also a warm journey to find their precious memory of the moment they shared.

Everyone has unforgettable memories in one’s life. A memory is so powerful that it could shake one’s life and all. Many Japanese people who joined the Sumida Battle 20 years ago say that four Korean women workers changed their lives. When the Japanese participants had hard time in their lives, they think about the four women so as to have courage to survive.
The four Korean women workers struggled for their rights at the risk of their lives in Japan in their twenties. They could hardly make themselves understood in Japan. Their pure and heated struggle for 8 months has influenced the life of the Japanese participants until now. The Japanese participants realized how important it is that you do everything you can while you are alive. And they were touched by the women workers. I believe that the deep impression was just as what I realized as above. I want to deliver this impression to my audiences.

2010 제15회 부산국제영화제