Documentary
Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. As her seven years of struggle to go back to her family in North Korea continues, the political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones. The life of her family in the North goes on in emptiness, and she fears that she might become someone, like a shadow, who exists only in the fading memory of her family.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Blue Butterfly Effect
Ryeohaeng
An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea
Assassins
Patriot Game 2 - To Call a Deer a Horse
Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ
레드 툼
Beyond Utopia
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
North Korea; Off-Piste
To Kill Alice
Family in the Bubble
Crossing the Line
Mafia of the Law
A Postcard from Pyongyang
White Jungle
The Red Princess
The Reservoir Game
A State of Mind
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
IMDB 10 | Oct , 2024
The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, including the kidnapping of a director.Blue Butterfly Effect
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2017
The small county of Seongju staged protests against the THAAD. Young mothers led protests from concerns about their kids and the exposure to radiation. Gradually, they learn the system is faulty.Ryeohaeng
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2019
A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settled into South Korean society after fleeing from North Korea. For them, climbing the mountains has been an unavoidable journey for survival - a matter of life and death.An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
Bob Woodruff’s daring 880-mile journey along the China-North Korea border examines the delicate relationship between the two countries and the United States.Assassins
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2021
True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?Patriot Game 2 - To Call a Deer a Horse
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2019
Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2024
A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and future. I'll see you at the DMZ! Shim was a free, one-day pop-up cafe staged in Yangji-ri village’s air raid shelter at the Korean DMZ. Referencing Korean cafe culture’s fixation on third place, the DMZ’s evolution from security tourism, to ecological peace tourism, and its repurposing as art production site, Shim attempts to intervene and align the past and present. Yangji-ri was one of many minbuk propaganda villages established by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1960s to showcase the farming bounty and prosperity of the south for a North Korean gaze. The village was formerly part of the Civilian Control Line (CCL) until 2013 when it was reterritorialized as a normal part of South Korea.레드 툼
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2015
Beyond Utopia
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 2023
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.Korea, A Hundred Years of War
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 2020
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.North Korea; Off-Piste
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2017
Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to experience first hand this country we know so little about.To Kill Alice
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2019
Eunmi, a woman who underwent intense anti-communist education while she grew up in South Korea, lives a normal life in America. However, after going on a trip to North Korea with her husband, her life begins to change. During an open forum event in South Korea, where she was invited to speak, she suffers the unimaginable, and the more she tries to escape from the situation, the worse and worse it gets.Family in the Bubble
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2018
My parents were real estate developers and dealers in the 1980s. They achieved the ‘middle class dream’ thanks to the development boom. However, the Asian financial crisis swept everything away.Crossing the Line
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2006
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, after 45 years, the story of James Dresnok, the last American defector in North Korea, is being told for the first time. Crossing the Line follows Dresnok as he recalls his childhood, desertion, and life in the DPRK.Mafia of the Law
IMDB 0 | May , 2019
A prisoner of 7 years who was innocently jailed by political prosecutors looks into the case himself, and seeks the punishment of those political prosecutors who shut him away illegally by suing them. However, no one takes him seriously or even investigate the case, let alone charge them as guilty. The prisoner takes matters into his own hands... A true story about the need of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit! Anything can be done if you know the law! The citizens of Korea are not dogs or pigs! The sovereignty of the people that has been taken away by political prosecutors must be won back! A law-themed and educational true story the citizens of the Republic of Korea must see.A Postcard from Pyongyang
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2019
"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country that keeps the world in suspense: North Korea. Friends Gregor Möller, Philip Kist and Anne Lewald visit in 2013 and 2017 and do what is strictly forbidden and for which they might have ended up in a forced labor camp: even though accompanied by state watchers, they secretly film their travels, accompanied by state watchdogs. We get an extraordinary insight into one of the most closed societies in the world and experience the 'beautiful new world' as the state propaganda machinery displays it.White Jungle
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2011
It is year 2011 and the government still talks of economic growth through medical care under the table. In reality, common people cannot afford to go to a hospital. They are nothing but extra casts in a promotional film for showing. The reality is a white jungle where medical care has become the market of extreme commercialization and doctors and patients are just too familiar with the physiology of jungle life. New rules and regulations must be practiced in this jungle. The film finds a solution by looking at medical care not as a personal means of production but community welfare.The Red Princess
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2022
Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the little sister of Kim Jong-un, whose influence in Pyongyang is growing stronger day by day.The Reservoir Game
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 2017
An investigative reporter seeks to expose the whereabouts of a slush fund belonging to the former president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak.A State of Mind
IMDB 7.7 | Aug , 2005
Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration.