Documentary focuses on Sona, the daughter of the director’s brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea.
Direction
Yang films her own family with painful, necessary distance.
Editing
Home footage vs. Pyongyang footage creates unbearable tension.
Writing
Every question she asks her brother lands like a grenade.
Director
Yang Yong-hi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1959-1984 repatriation program convinced 93,000 Koreans in Japan to move to North Korea, a decision most couldn't reverse.
Yang's three-film trilogy on her family—'Dear Pyongyang,' this, and 'Our Family'—may be the only sustained visual record of this erased migration.
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