Kazoku no kuni
Our Homeland
- Release Date
- August, 4th, 2012
- Running Time
- 100 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DCP, HDCAM
- Screen Size
- HD (16:9)
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- ANDO Sakura ── Rie
- IURA Arata ── Sung-ho
- YANG Ik-june ── Yang
[ Staff ]
- Yang Yonghi ── Screenplay
- TODA Yoshihisa ── Cinematography
- MARUO Tomoyuki ── Production Design
- KIKUI Takashige ── Editor
- IWASHIRO Taro ── Music
[ Production Company ]
STAR SANDS, KADOKAWA SHOTEN
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
STAR SANDS
[ Production Studio ]
SLOW LEARNER
[ Story ]
The first narrative feature from director Yang Yonghi, who gained international acclaim for her documentary films DEAR PYONGYANG and Sona, the Other Myself. Winner of the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas (C.I.C.A.E.) Prize in the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival's Forum Section.
Sung-ho (Iura Arata), who emigrated to North Korea as part of a repatriation program for Koreans in Japan in the 1970s, visits Japan for the first time in twenty-five years to receive treatment for an illness. His younger sister Rie (Ando Sakura) and the rest of his family shed tears of joy at their reunion. However, in the middle of his planned three-month stay, Sung-ho is suddenly ordered to return to North Korea.
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2012 Berlin International Film Festival, Forum, C.I.C.A.E. Award
2012 Busan International Film Festival, A Window on Asian Cinema
2012 Montreal World Film Festival, Focus on World Cinema
[ Contact (International) ]
Star Sands Inc.
2F Kamon Bldg., 2-6-11 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002
Rep: KAWAMURA Mitsunobu
Attn: AKIYAMA Noriko
tel: +81 3 3406 2205
fax: +81 3 3406 2206
E-mail: akiyama@starsands.com
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