Tofu, Lady Vengeance


FILM Lady Vengeance (South Korea, 2005)
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal.

"It's a tradition to eat tofu on release, so that you'll live white and never sin again." 
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Why to eat tofu when you get out of jail?
In Korea, when someone is released from prison, the person is fed with a tubu (tofu). In her book Dubi, Korean novelist Park Wan-seo explanation of this custom is:

 "A life behind the bars is said to be "eating boiled beans." A tofu has been released from beans but can never return to beans. Thus a feeding a tofu might mean a wish that the person would never go back to prison." 

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