Asia Society and Museum (Venue Partner)
725 Park Avenue
212.288.6400
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The series Extreme Private Ethos: Japanese Documentaries is supported, in part, by the Japan Foundation
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Sunday Mar 11 (3pm)
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Directions: Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to Madison & 70th; M101, M102 to Lexington & 70th; M30 to Park & 72nd; M66 to Park & 68th OR Subway: #6 to 68th St.
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$11 / $9 students and seniors with ID
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Dear Pyongyang
YANG Yonghi. 2006. 107 min. Color. HDCAM. In Korean and Japanese with English subtitles.
A second-generation Korean Japanese, filmmaker Yang Yonghi grew up not understanding why her father, originally from South Korea, decided to pledge loyalty to North Korea, became the local leader of a pro-North Korea organization, and sent his three teenage sons, then aged 14 to 18, to live in Pyongyang in the 1970s. Shot in both Osaka and Pyongyang, this film documents the family's various reunions in the North Korean capital, the ritual of sending large boxes of supplies to Pyongyang, and the filmmaker's complex relationship with her father marked by both ideological conflicts and affection. The film provides a rare glimpse into the life of ethnic Koreans in Japan as well as life in Pyongyang. The filmmaker has been banned from entering North Korea since the release of this film. A Tidepoint Pictures film.
