is a 2012 Japanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

about a Korean man's visit to his family in Japan after a long exile in

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

. This is the feature debut of Yang Yong-hi, a second-generation ethnic Korean living in Japan who based the film on her family history. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the

85th Academy Awards The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p ...

, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Plot

From the late 1950s and into the 1970s, more than 90,000 of the Korean residents in Japan emigrated to

, a country that promised them affluence, justice and an end to discrimination. ''Our Homeland'' tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. Yoon Seong-ho ( Arata Iura) was sent to North Korea as a teen by his fervently North-supporting father. Returning to Tokyo for medical treatment after 25 years, he finds it difficult to open up to his family, including his passionately anti-North sister Rie (

Sakura Ando is a Japanese actress. She is best known for appearing in critically-acclaimed films such as Sion Sono's ''Love Exposure'', Hirokazu Kore-eda's ''Shoplifters'' (2018) and ''Monster'' (2023), as well as Takashi Yamazaki's Academy Award–winni ...

). Seong-ho and Rie are two people handed radically different life perspectives by the course of history. While Seong-ho's path is sketched out for him, Rie recognizes that a whole world of opportunities is open to her. Including the chance to rebel against her own family.

Cast

* Arata Iura as Yoon Seong-ho *

as Rie *

Yang Ik-june Yang Ik-june (born October 19, 1975) is a South Korean actor and film director. He is best known for the 2009 film '' Breathless'', which he wrote, directed, edited, and starred in. Career Born in Seoul in 1975, Yang graduated from the Departme ...

as Yang, Seong-ho's minder * Kotomi Kyôno as Suni * Masane Tsukayama as Seong-ho's father * Miyazaki Yoshiko as Seong-ho's mother * Suwa Taro as Tejo, Seong-ho's uncle * Suzuki Shinsuke *

Tatsushi Ōmori is a Japanese film director and actor. Career Ōmori was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Akaji Maro, an actor and butoh dancer. His younger brother, Nao Ōmori, is an actor. While in college, he began making 8 mm films, but started working ...

as Hongi *

Jun Murakami is a Japanese actor. Career Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka. He has also appeared in films such as Takahisa Zeze's '' Heaven's Story'' an ...

as Juno * Shogo as Chori * Yamada Maho

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Our Homeland 2012 films 2012 drama films Japanese drama films 2010s Japanese-language films Best Film Kinema Junpo Award winners Films scored by Taro Iwashiro 2010s Japanese films Films about Zainichi Korean people Japanese-language drama films

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