Sa Bangji

SaBangji was an intersexpersonwhoaccording to historical recordslived duringKoreasJoseon DynastyTaken inbya kindly benefactorSaBangjilives in a monasterythat is one day visited byayoung widow Lee Sosawho is inmourning following the death of her husbandThepairsmeeting seems predestinedwiththeerotic attraction betweenSaBangjiand Lee Sosasoonevolvinginto something far more transcendent and dangerous While aspects of thefilm itsstyliseddepiction of female actorsand sex identify it as a product of its timeSaBangjiisundeniablyamilestone inscreenrepresentations of intersex people a filmthat refuses to shy away from the horrendous stigmatizationfaced byits titular character