When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubar...
An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a figh...
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the c...
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along th...
Mira in her late 40's has been living in Paris for around 20 years. Having just divorced her French ...
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. Whe...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for thei...
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
A spirited and brave fiction debut by Lee Sang-il, a Korean-Japanese filmmaker, that explores the ta...
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society t...
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a...
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...