Film tells story of Japan's pro-NKorean residents
BY SAM KIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUSAN, South Korea -- Korean-Japanese filmmaker Yang Yonghi says she leaned on her own personal history and similar stories from her pro-North Korean community in Japan for her latest movie, the feature film "Our Homeland," which made its South Korean debut Saturday at the Busan International Film Festival.
"Our Homeland" tells the story of Sung Ho, a Japanese-born Korean who was among the estimated 90,000 people sent by their families to North Korea during a wave of repatriations from the late 1950s to the 1970s. He returns to Tokyo after 25 years away for a brief reunion with the rest of the family still living in Japan and medical treatment for his brain tumor.
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