Dear Pyongyang
8.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Yang Yonghi Music director Masahiro Inumaru Producer Inaba Toshiya Country Japan | 8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Screenplay Yang Yonghi Duration Language Japanese
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Release date October 2005 (2005-10) (PiFan)
August 26, 2006 (2006-08-26) (Japan) Similar movies The Interview , 47 Ronin , The Last Samurai , Black Rain , Kill Bill: Vol. 1 , My Neighbor Totoro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi (Korean: 양영희, Hanja: 梁英姬) about her family. Shot in Osaka, Japan (Yang's hometown) and Pyongyang, North Korea, the film features Korean and Japanese dialogue with subtitles. The US release has Korean and Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. In August 2006, Yang released a book in Japanese under the same title expanding on the themes she explored in the film.
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Story
In the 1970s, Yang's father, an ardent communist and leader of the pro-North movement in Japan, sent his three sons from Japan to North Korea under a repatriation campaign sponsored by ethnic activist organisation and de facto North Korean embassy Chongryon. As the only daughter, Yang remained in Japan. However, as the economic situation in the North deteriorated, the brothers became increasingly dependent for survival on the care packages sent by their parents. The film shows Yang's visits to her brothers in Pyongyang, as well as conversations with her father about his ideological faith and his regrets over breaking up his family.
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