I Wish I Could Be Japanese backdrop
I Wish I Could Be Japanese poster

Quick Info

IMDb
Rating
5.8/10
Release1992
Runtime0h 47m
StatusReleased
BudgetN/A
RevenueN/A
Production
TV Man Union
Movie

I Wish I Could Be Japanese

1992
0h 47m
5.8
Documentary

Synopsis

The film deals with the rights of Japanese-Koreans -born in Japan but without Japanese passport or nationality- and the social rejection that they face if they don’t integrate completely, abandoning their Korean identity. The film’s main thread is the story of a Korean man, who in the times of the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, is sent to Japan to fight along with the Japanese in the Philippines, but after the war and fearing discrimination, creates a Japanese identity for himself and manages to get married and have children without his family ever knowing about his origins for 50 years until he is arrested in 1985 for forging official documents and in suspicion of being a spy from North Korea. (…) © timegoesbyin.wordpress.com/tag/i-wanted-to-be-japanese

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