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There Is a Japanese Woman in My Room
SOUTH KOREA · 2019

There Is a Japanese Woman in My Room

EROPING
sexual harassment homelessness exploitation of foreign workers artistic inspiration redemption and second chances
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Synopsis

A determined Japanese woman gets a job in Korea. She thinks she will be cleaning, but she is taught to massage. When her director touches her inappropriately she runs into the street where she encounters men who take advantage of her and she becomes homeless. She is found by a webtoon designer who uses her as inspiration for his webtoons. Will she become more than his inspiration?