Kawa wo Wataru Hitobito
People Crossing the River
- Release Date
- TBD
- Running Time
- 135 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Staff ]
- KIM Duk-chul ── Cinematography
- WATANABE Yukio ── Editor
- KIM Tae-yeon ── Sound
- KIM Young-dong ── Music
- JANG Sa-ik ── Theme Song
- KIM Do-yeon ── Assistant Director
[ Production Company ]
KJ Film (South Korea), SHIGOTO Film Production (Japan)
[ Story ]
In Kawasaki, where factories in which Koreans were forced to work during the war still stand, four Japanese and Koreans confront Korean-Japanese history and struggle toward building a cultural bridge that crosses the generations. Third-year high-school student Takagi Kumiko takes part in a homestay exchange program with students from Bucheon, Korea. The Reverend Sekita Hiroo continues his 30-year struggle for coexistence and human rights. Second-generation zainichi Song Bu-ja performs a one-woman show celebrating her own three-generation family history, having overcome experiences of discrimination. And Kim Kyung-suk faces the last fight of his life in court. Director Kim Duk-chul is a renowned Korean-Japanese filmmaker who began his career as cinematographer for fiction films like Yun's Town (dir. Kim Woo-sung, 1989) and won many prizes with his first documentary The River of Reconciliation (1994, co-dir. Mori Yasuyuki).
[ Premiere ]
World Premiere: Pusan International Film Festival 2006 (previous version)
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2007
[ Contact (International) ]
JINJIN Pictures
4F Yeonhwa Bldg., 102-1 Gye-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-801 South Korea
tel: +82-2-3672-0181
fax: +82-2-741-5225
E-mail: teonj@jinjinpic.co.kr
SHIGOTO FILM PRODUCTION, INC.
#903 Haiyuza Bldg., 4-9-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Rep: ONO Shinichi
Attn: ITO Ei
tel: +81-3-3470-2881
fax: +81-3-3470-2980
E-mail: info@shigoto-kk.co.jp
