True North (2020)
- Directed by
- Eiji Han Shimizu
- Genre
- drama, animation
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A family is held captive in a North Korean prison. The story is based on research and interviews with former political prisoners who defected.
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What happens
True North (Japanese: トゥルーノース) is a 2020 Japanese-Indonesian 3D animated film written, edited, directed and produced by a South Korean-Japanese filmmaker Eiji Han Shimizu, co-produced by Sumimasen led by Shimizu and Studio Raboon. It based on years of research and interviews with former political prisoners who defected to South Korea by Shimizu, depicts a family held captive in a prisons in North Korea in English. Produced over 10 years, spented on funding and gathering collaborators over 5 years of that. The film was screened at the 2020 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, nominated for feature films contrechamp in competition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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