While serving as a journalist in World War 2 for the Imperial Army of Japan, "Takahashi Minoru" (Pak Ki Ju) sees first-hand the impact on Koreans who have had their national identity forcibly taken from them by the Japanese occupation of their country. It's at this time that he adopts a mantra of viewing an incident before writing a newspaper editorial on it. Several years later he once again visits Korea as a war correspondent during the Korean War and takes home with him several more memories that have a great effect upon him as well. Years later he becomes a respected writer and while giving a speech on the Juche system has his perspective challenged by a young man in the auditorium. Having never seen North Korea he realizes that in order to meet his own high standard of journalism he must travel there and see for himself whether his opinion is valid or not.
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Cast
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Pak Ki Ju
Takahashi Minoru
Also in
Centre Forward
Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja
Kim Ryang Rim
Ryu Chon Song
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Choi Eun-hee
Also in
The Flower in Hell
Mother and a Guest
Seo Gyeong-Seob
Kim Chong-hwa
Also in
Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja
Sang-ok Shin
Jin-Hwan Lee
Also in
On The Railway
Prelude to the struggle
Yi Yŏng-ho
Rho Jung-won
Jung-hwa Kim
Yoon-Hong Kim
Lee Moon-ho
Shin Sang-ok Director · Choi Eun-hee Director Ko Hak-lim Director
First release January 1, 1987 · Produced in North Korea · Original title 내가 본 나라
Production
North Korea
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Original title
내가 본 나라
Original language
Korean
Spoken on screen
Korean
Release dates
North Korea · January 1, 1987
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No release date listed for United States.
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