Réalisation:
Yong-hi YangScénario:
Yong-hi YangPhotographie:
Yoshihisa TodaActeurs·trices:
Sakura Andō, 井浦新, Kotomi Kyōno, Tatsushi Ômori, Jun Murakami, Tarō Suwa, 井村空美, Soo-jin Kim, Ik-joon Yang, 宮崎美子, Mutsuo Yoshioka, 津嘉山正種, Maho Yamada (plus)Résumés(1)
From the late 50s and into the 70s, more than 90,000 of the Koreans resident in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there.
Sonho's younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film and is not hard to recognise as the director's alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life: at just six years of age, she had to experience how her three older brothers left the family forever, headed for Pyongyang.
It's difficult to remain unaffected by the story's emotional components. But the director doesn't place her emphasis on melodrama, being simply interested in two people handed radically different life perspectives by the course of history. While Sonho's path is sketched out for him, Rie recognises that a whole world of opportunities is open to her. Including the chance to rebel against her own family.
(Berlinale)
Acteurs·trices
Sakura Andō
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Love Exposure (2008)
Une affaire de famille (2018)
L'Innocence (2023)
井浦新
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Tel père, tel fils (2013)
True Mothers (2020)
Ping Pong (2002)
Kotomi Kyōno
Japon
Meilleurs films :
9 Souls (2003)
Le Labyrinthe des rêves (1997)
Messengers (1999)
Tatsushi Ômori
Japon
Jun Murakami
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Raió (2010)
Hisshiken torisashi (2010)
Vibrator (2003)
Tarō Suwa
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Stupeur et tremblements (2003)
Čanto cutaeru (2009)
Cumetai nettagjo (2010)
井村空美
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Hai kikku gâru! (2009)
Soo-jin Kim
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Gemini (1999)
Tetsuo II (1992)
Ik-joon Yang
Corée du Sud
Meilleurs films :
Gyechoonhalmang (2016)
Urideului haenbokhan sigan (2006)
Sesang eodiedo eobneun chakhan namja (2012) (série)
宮崎美子
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Après la pluie (1999)
Ran (1985)
Raió (2010)
Mutsuo Yoshioka
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Kikareta onna (2006)
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003)
Underwater Love a Pink Musical (2011)
津嘉山正種
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Maho Yamada
Japon
Shinsuke Suzuki
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Fune o amu (2013)
Aoi haru (2001)
Širajuki-hime sacudžin džiken (2014)