Dear Pyongyang
Dear Pyongyang | |
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Directed by | Yang Young-hee (South Korea) Yang Yong-hi (Japan) |
Produced by | Inaba Toshiya |
Edited by | Nakaushi Akane |
Distributed by | Cheon, Inc. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Languages | Japanese Korean |
Dear Pyongyang | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 디어 평양 |
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Revised Romanization | Dieo Pyeongyang |
McCune–Reischauer | Tiŏ P'yŏngyang |
Dear Pyongyang (Korean: 디어 평양) is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi about her family. It was shot in both Yang's hometown of Osaka, Japan, and Pyongyang, North Korea. The film has both Korean and Japanese dialogue with subtitles. The US release has Korean and Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.[1][2] In August 2006, Yang released a book in Japanese under the same title expanding on the themes she explored in the film.[2]
Story[edit]
In the 1970s, Yang's father, an ardent communist and leader of the pro-North movement in Japan, sent his three sons from Japan to North Korea under a repatriation campaign sponsored by ethnic activist organisation and de facto North Korean embassy Chongryon. As the only daughter, Yang remained in Japan. However, as the economic situation in the North deteriorated, the brothers became increasingly dependent for survival on the care packages sent by their parents. The film shows Yang's visits to her brothers in Pyongyang, as well as conversations with her father about his ideological views and his regrets over breaking up his family.[3]
Film festivals[edit]
- Sundance Film Festival, 2006[1]
- Pusan International Film Festival, 2006[1]
- Berlin International Film Festival, 2006[1]
- Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, 2021
References[edit]
- ^ ab c d Koehler, Robert (2006-02-23). "Dear Pyongyang". Variety. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ ab Yang, Yong-hi (August 2006). ディア・ピョンヤン―家族は離れたらアカンのや. Artone. ISBN 486193057X.
- ^ Kim, Tae-jong (2006-11-24). "'Dear Pyongyang' for Dear Dad". Korea Times. Retrieved 2007-03-20.(registration required)
External links[edit]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070331183426/http://www.film.cheon.jp/
- Dear Pyongyang at IMDb
- ’Dear Pyongyang’ builds bridge between life in N. Korea and outside world
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By Kim Hyun
Since the day she saw off her three brothers at the Japanese port of Niigata at the age of six, Yang, a second-generation ethnic Korean film director born and living in Japan, has harbored a growing anger towards her parents who sent their boys away out of their allegiance to North Korea, where dire living conditions soon became obvious.
Yang says it took years to understand her father’s political choices. Filming her father with a video camera over 10 years, she learned the reasons why her father and other first-generation Koreans in Japan who were born in South Korea chose North Korea as their ideological home.
Her documentary "Dear Pyongyang" is to be released in South Korea next month.
"If there wasn’t discrimination against them, my brothers wouldn’t have gone," Yang said in an interview on the sidelines of the Pusan International Film Festival.
"Young people couldn’t have hope for their future. The first generation was so poor, and the young people saw that they wouldn’t be able to study or go to university, and even if they graduated from the University of Tokyo they wouldn’t be able to find an employer. They really had low status in Japan," she said.
Many dreamed of a better future in North Korea. The North had a rising economy at that time with a stable, nationalist leadership under Kim Il-sung, while in South Korea there were a series of military coups that resulted in the suppression of democratic movements. The young ethnic Koreans in Japan simply believed reassurances from the North Korean and Japanese governments that they would soon establish diplomatic relations.
Tokyo at that time needed solutions to control the rapid population growth and related social issues and signed an agreement with Pyongyang in 1959 to repatriate ethnic Koreans who wanted to leave.
North Korea has since never allowed such immigrants to return.
Their choice of North Korea now seems so naive, but Yang says there was no alternative.
"Now it is easy to conclude they were overly optimistic. But if they hadn’t even had that hope, they wouldn’t have been able to live at that time," she said.
The Japanese government recognizes migrants and their descendants born in Japan as foreigners. Discrimination against ethnic Koreans was especially severe after Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
In "Dear Pyongyang," the winner of the NETPAC Asian award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year, Yang uses footage taken during her visits to her brothers in Pyongyang over the past 10 years. The images reveal their seemingly happy life, but the dismal conditions of North Korea are also obvious. One of her brothers says "I am happy," but the reality is that her brothers live on money sent from their family in Japan and electricity is often cut off, forcing her nephew to use candles to play piano. For overseas phone calls, they have to stand in a long line at a government-run center.
Yang, a graduate of a media studies program in New York, changed her nationality from North Korean to South Korean last year, hoping that could broaden her freedom as a filmmaker. Her next work about one of her nephews in Pyongyang is to be funded by the ongoing Pusan film festival in the South Korean port city of Busan. "Dear Pyongyang," which premiered here last year, was also produced with the fund.
Seeing the rising public sentiment against North Korea in Japan after the North’s abduction of Japanese citizens and its nuclear bomb test, Yang calls for an understanding that North Korea is just another place where normal lives go on.
"It’s also a people’s place where women are interested in cosmetics and good hairstyles, and men are busy looking for pretty women. The images of starvation and tyranny are not everything about the North. That is true in part, but I hope people will see that there are other parts, like my nephew who plays piano and lovely children." "We have little information to draw on about North Korea, but we rush to make a judgment about it. To understand somebody, we need to observe them from many directions," she said.
(Yonhap, October 17, 2006)
ディア・ピョンヤン
ディア・ピョンヤン Dear Pyongyang | |
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監督 | 梁英姫(ヤン・ヨンヒ) |
脚本 | 梁英姫(ヤン・ヨンヒ) |
製作 | 稲葉敏也 |
製作総指揮 | 稲葉敏也 |
音楽 | 犬丸正博 |
撮影 | 梁英姫(ヤン・ヨンヒ) |
編集 | 中牛あかね |
配給 | シネカノン |
公開 | 2006年8月26日 2006年11月23日 |
上映時間 | 107分 |
製作国 | 日本 韓国 |
言語 | 日本語 朝鮮語 |
『ディア・ピョンヤン Dear Pyongyang』は、梁英姫(ヤン・ヨンヒ)監督によるドキュメンタリー作品。2006年8月26日、渋谷シネ・ラ・セットにて日本初公開。監督の父は、朝鮮総連の元幹部。
ストーリー[編集]
日本で生まれ育ったコリアン2世の映像作家・梁英姫が自身の家族を10年にわたって追い続けたドキュメンタリー。朝鮮総連の幹部として活動に人生を捧げた両親と娘との離別と再会、そして和解を描く。
スタッフ[編集]
- 監督・脚本・撮影:梁英姫(ヤン・ヨンヒ)
- プロデューサー:稲葉敏也
- 編集:中牛あかね
- サウンド:犬丸正博
- 翻訳・字幕:赤松立太
受賞歴[編集]
- 2005年 山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭:アジア千波万波部門
- 特別賞
- 2006年 第56回ベルリン国際映画祭:フォーラム部門
- 最優秀アジア映画賞(NETPAC賞)
- 2006年 サンダンス映画祭
- 審査員特別賞
- 2006年 第8回スペイン・バルセロナ アジア映画祭
- 最優秀デジタル映画賞(D-CINEMA AWARD)
- 2006年 フランクフルト国際映画祭
- 最優秀観客賞
- 2006年 シンガポール・Asia Festival of 1st Films映画祭
- 最優秀ドキュメンタリー監督賞
その他、正式招待された国際映画祭[編集]
- 2005年 釜山国際映画祭
- 2006年 ソウル インディペンデント ドキュメンタリー映画祭
- 2006年 サンフランシスコ国際アジア・アメリカ映画祭
- 2006年 フィラデルフィア映画祭
- 2006年 シネマジア・アジア映画祭
- 2006年 ニッポンコネクション映画祭
- 2006年 スイス・ヴィジョン・デゥレール映画祭
- 2006年 ホット・ドックス カナダ国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭
- 2006年 シアトル国際映画祭
- 2006年 ベラリア映画祭
- 2006年 パリ・シネマ国際映画祭
- 2006年 シドニー国際映画祭
DVD[編集]
- 2006年7月8日にデックスエンタテインメントからDVDが発売された。
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