Our School (2007)

Original title

우리 학교

Directed by

Kim Myeong-joon

Genre

documentary film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

ALL

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows ethnic Korean students at a pro-North Korean high school in Japan. It shows their daily routines, friendships, and cultural identity struggles.

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What happens

Our School (Korean: 우리학교; RR: Uri hakgyo) is a documentary film about the lives of ethnic Korean students in a Chongryon-run pro-North Korean high school in Hokkaido, Japan. Released on 29 March 2007 (Sunday), a Hankook Ilbo article on 3 April stated it had already exceeded 10,000 viewers. In the end, media reports claim it registered 85,000 or 90,000 viewer admissions in the South Korean domestic market, a far better performance than other recent documentaries such as the 2002 Yeongmae (영매, 20,000 viewers), the 2004 Repatriation (송환, 30,000 viewers) or the 2006 Bisang (비상, 40,000 viewers); it was suggested this might be a new domestic record. Director Kim Myeong-joon received the Kim Yong-gun Memorial Society prize in relation to his work on the film. The film was released on DVD in Japan in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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