When a man who had spent three decades in jail for a murder he denies committing declared in an interview that he had "no regrets" about his life, film director Kim Song Woong was stunned — and inspired.
After the encounter, Kim spent three years following Kazuo Ishikawa, 74, and his wife, Sachiko, 66, around with a camera to figure out the meaning of his words. The result is the documentary film "Until the Invisible Handcuffs are Removed."
"I couldn't take what he said at face value, as he was jailed for more than 30 years before his release on bail, and he is still treated as a criminal," Kim, 50, said of Ishikawa, who was convicted of killing a 16-year-old high school girl in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, in May 1963.