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Dear Pyongyang  .  director Yonghi Yang
11/09/2006, at 12:30 PM 11/11/2006, at 03:00 PM
director Yonghi Yang
country Japan
year 2006
duration 107 minutes
media Digibeta PAL
color Color
language OmeU
production "Cheon Inc Toshiya Inaba 2-33-7-105 Yoyogi Shibuya-ku 151-00553 Tokio Japan Fon: +81 3 5350 7534 Fax + 81 3 5350 6324 inaba@cheon.jp"
cinematography Yonghi Yang
editor Akane Nakaushi
music Masahiro Inumaru
distribution

"Cine Qua non

Naoko Kunioka

7F, 33-7 Udagawa-cho

Shibuya-ku

150-0042 Tokio

Japan

Fon: +81 3 5458 6571

Fax: +81 3 5458 6572

kunioka@cqn.co.jp"



synopsis

"Yonghi Yang is a second generation Korean who was born and raised in Japan.

She was raised by parents who dedicated all of their lives to their ?home country? as leaders of General Association of Korean Residents.

Her three brothers have ?returned? to North Korea more than thirty years ago. They still live in Pyongyang thus her family is dispersed.

Why did her father and mother who cherished family send their sons to their ?home country?? Why do they continue to dedicate all of their lives this much to the home country?

 

She who wouldn't hope to cast away ?choices of life on her own will? under the name of ?system? and ?allegiance to home country? cannot accept ?her parents' choices.?

Feeling a strong sense of rejection, finally, she starts to talk repeatedly with her parents. The parents and a daughter accept each other?s different styles of lives and seek for a new relationship. When confronting father's death, the father and the daughter start to develop a new strong bond."


biography

"Yonghi Yang, Film maker. As second-generation Korean Resident so called ?Zainichi,? Yang was born and raised in Osaka, Japan.

Graduated from Department of Literature, Korea University in Tokyo. Obtained MA from the graduate school of New School University in New York. Formerly a teacher, an actress, and a radio DJ.

From 1995 she started to introduce mainly documentary works of hers as an auteur.

Obtained MA in Media Studies at New School University Graduate School in New York, U.S.

After having returned to Japan in 2003, she resumed her activity in Japan."