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Other authors / contributors: | Yang, Yonghi, filmmaker.
Tidepoint Pictures (Firm),
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Notes: | Title from title frames. Film. In Process Record. Yonghi Yang. Originally produced by Tidepoint Pictures in 2005. In Japanese, Korean.
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Summary: | "Best Documentary - World Cinema"--Sundance Film Festival (2006). A young girl's father sends her three brothers from Japan to live permanently in a homeland foreign to them -- North Korea. In this autobiographical documentary spanning ten years, the daughter who was left behind -- filmmaker Yonghi Yang -- struggles to understand why her loving father would destroy his family out of political loyalty to an isolated and enigmatic regime. "The impossible personal and political quandaries experienced by ethnic Koreans living in Japan find gentle, touching expression in DEAR PYONGYANG." - Variety.
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Publisher's no.: | 1491404 Kanopy
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