A young woman named Yeon-hee is traveling to Pyongyang with a coach full of elderly people. As she flips through old photographs, she remembers telling her husband Min-woo that she wouldn't allow him to "cross over" to North Korea given the political situation of the day. But Min-woo left anyway and never returned home, and their marriage was torn apart by the Korean War. Now, sixty years after the division of Korea, she looks forward to reuniting with her beloved Min-woo again.
Acting
Son Sook's silent longing destroys me every time.
Direction
Kang Je-kyu makes 28 minutes feel like a lifetime.
Cinematography
The photograph transitions between past and present are exquisite.
Director
Kang Je-kyu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during a brief thaw in inter-Korean relations, the film captures real Red Cross reunion procedures that have since become increasingly rare.
Kang Je-kyu directed the blockbuster 'Taegukgi'—this short is his quiet, devastating apology for the epic scale of that earlier war film.
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