The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea: George and the Swimming Pool – Movie

Through an autobiographical lens, the movie unfolds as Lee recollects her first center faculty figure-drawing class within the Nineteen Nineties, when her artwork instructor introduced an actual human cranium from the varsity’s storeroom. Unearthed alongside two Japanese army swords throughout renovations within the Nineteen Eighties, the cranium reveals a historical past of erasure courting again to the Japanese Occupation and alludes to the Nanshitou Incident.  

The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea explores the trauma of displacement beneath the shadow of the Second World War, specializing in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan. The mission facilities on the little-known atrocity that occurred in a southern suburb of Guangzhou, China. Between 1942 and 1945, through the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, hundreds of Hong Kong residents had been deported by occupying forces beneath the guise of a “Repatriation Policy.” Many had been despatched and detained at Guangzhou’s Nanshitou Refugee Camp, a website that Lee’s analysis associates with compelled labor and human bacteriological experimentation.  The mission sheds gentle on marginalized voices absent from mainstream historical past, tracing states of worry, survival, and fragile resilience. The refugee camp emerges as each a website of bodily confinement and biopolitical management—make dwell and let die.  Through archival analysis, fieldwork, interviews, and creative follow, the mission re-examines human endurance and collective battle beneath excessive situations.