Director's Bio-Filmography:
Yonghi Yang s-a născut în Osaka, Japonia în 1964. Aparţine comunităţii minoritare etnice coreene din Japonia, mulți dintre ei aduși acolo în perioada Japoniei coloniale în 1910-1945 . Yang a studiat la Universitatea din Coreea în Tokyo şi la Universitatea din New York, unde a obținut un master în studii de mass-media. Vorbește fluent trei limbi.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
A Japanese-born ethnic Korean filmmaker chronicles her father's fierce loyalty to North Korea and the radical choices he makes due to his Marxist ideology. The father as a teen had moved from South Korea to Japan. He grew Marxist in his views and declares himself a North Korean due to his experiences of Japanese occupation, Korea's division and the Korean War. He envisioned a unified and communist Korean Peninsula. In 1971, he sent his three sons to Pyongyang. Thirty years later, his youngest child explores her father's choices. She filmed multiple trips to Pyongyang, offering unprecedented access to daily life in the secretive country.