Underplayed Gems

Riceboy Sleeps (2022)

Riceboy Sleeps poster
Directed by
Anthony Shim
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 57 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Korean single mother and her teenage son navigate life in Canada as she sacrifices for his future. The story follows their bond across years of hardship and small joys.

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What happens

Riceboy Sleeps is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, edited, and directed by Anthony Shim. Based in part on Shim's own childhood, the film centres on So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon), a Korean immigrant single mother raising her teenage son Dong-Hyun (Ethan Hwang) after moving to Canada to give him a better life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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