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Pachinko

8.4

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive. (Source: AppleTV) ~~ Adapted from the…

Go

7.7

Sugihara, a troubled youth with a Zainichi Korean father and Japanese mother, has been trained in boxing by his father, a former North Korean professional boxer. After attending a strict, Marxist-influenced junior high,…

Tokyo Wankei

7.3

Mika Kimoto, a successful editor in Tokyo from a wealthy Korean-Japanese family, struggles with her father's demand that she marry only a Korean. After her relationship with her Japanese boyfriend ends due to his interference,…

Paradise

7.1

A little girl is kidnapped along a Y-shaped road, but the kidnapper escapes. Tsumugi, who was with the girl, is deeply affected. 12 years later, another girl goes missing on the same road. Takeshi, a young man selling…

Death by Hanging

7.6

It was acclaimed for its innovative Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but…

Kamikaze Taxi

7.5

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses…

Break Through!

7.3

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several…

Dear Pyongyang

7.9

Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong Hui about her own family. It was shot in Osaka Japan (Yang's hometown) and Pyongyang, North Korea, In the 1970s, Yang's father, an ardent communist…

Riky

Features two legends of the professional wrestling world, 'Karate Chop' Rikidozan and 'Headbutt King' Kim Il, densely unravels the hidden stories of Zainichi Koreans that we didn't know about. (Source: Korean = Naver…

The Harbor Lights

Akari is a third-generation Korean resident in Japan born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. "I barely feel like a Korean resident, and don't recall the disaster. The earthquake, family, nationality - What do…

Empire of Kids

6.0

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko. He’s greeted by his friends, Chabo and Ken. They seek to forge their own path through a multitude…

Good-Bye

6.5

In his second short film, Katsu Kanai explores the relationship between Japan and Korea in a surrealistic way. "Good-bye" was filmed in 1970, right around the time of the Yodo Incident, when the Japanese Red Army hijacked…

The Brick Factory Girl

2.0

A poor Japanese young woman becomes friend with a Korean worker and her family.

My Second Brother

7.2

Four orphaned siblings struggle against the crushing poverty that threatens to separate them. (Source: allmovie.com) ~~ Adapted from the novel based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl.

Out of the Wind

7.0

High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag…

The Voices of the Silenced

6.7

This film delves into the historical experiences of Park Soo Nam, born in colonial-era Japan, now nearly 90 years of age. She had lived half her life when she swapped pen for camera to retrace the story of Zainichi-Koreans…

For Kayako

6.6

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean. (Source: IMDb) ~~Adapted from Lee Hoe Sung's (이회성) novel of the same name.

All Under the Moon

6.1

Tadao is a North Korean immigrant who works in a taxi cab corporation wholly owned by another Korean immigrant whose dream is to build a golf course. He suffers from chronic discrimination. Tadao's mother owns a karaoke…