Our Homeland

{{Infobox film

| name = Our Homeland

| image =

| caption =

| director = Yang Yong-hi

| producer = Koshikawa Michio
Sato Junko
Kawamura Mitsunobu

| writer = Yang Yong-hi

| starring = Sakura Ando
Arata Iura

| music = Taro Iwashiro

| cinematography = Toda Yoshihisa

| editing = Kikui Takashige

| distributor = Star Sands
Slow Learner

| released = {{Film date|2012|2|11|Berlin|2012|8|4|Japan|df=yes}}

| runtime = 99 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

{{nihongo|Our Homeland|かぞくのくに|Kazoku no kuni}} is a 2012 Japanese drama film about a Korean man's visit to his family in Japan after a long exile in North Korea. 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/10/141_121631.html |title='Our Homeland' director testifies about tragedy of ethnic Koreans in Japan |access-date=10 October 2012|date=7 October 2012|work=The Korea Times}}{{cite web|last=Park|first=Eun-jee|title='Our Homeland' a story of repatriation, reunion|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2960674|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411045025/http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2960674|url-status=usurped|archive-date=11 April 2013|work=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=18 February 2013|date=12 October 2012}}{{cite web|last=Kim|first=Sam|title=Film shows family torn by NKorea-Japan program|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/news/film-shows-family-torn-nkorea-japan-program-090531616.html|work=Associated Press via Yahoo!|access-date=18 February 2013|date=6 October 2012}}{{cite web|last=Schilling|first=Mark|title=Japan's female directors make a strong showing|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/28/films/japans-female-directors-make-a-strong-showing/|work=The Japan Times|access-date=18 February 2013|date=28 December 2012}} The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.{{cite news|last=Schilling|first=Mark|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118058674/ |title=Japan picks 'Our Homeland' as foreign language Oscar entry|date=4 September 2012|access-date=8 September 2012|work=Variety}}{{cite web|last=Karasaki|first=Taro|title=Drama on ethnic Koreans' plight selected for showing at Oscars|url=http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/movies/AJ201209140043|work=Asahi Shimbun|access-date=18 February 2013|date=14 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213022259/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/movies/AJ201209140043|archive-date=13 December 2012|url-status=dead}}

Plot

From the late 1950s and into the 1970s, more than 90,000 of the Korean residents in Japan emigrated to North Korea, 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). 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.{{cite web|title=Kazoku no kuni|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2012/02_programm_2012/02_Filmdatenblatt_2012_20127122.php|work=Berlinale|access-date=18 February 2013}}{{cite web|last=Elley|first=Derek|title=Our Homeland|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/our-homeland|work=Film Business Asia|access-date=18 February 2013|date=12 February 2013}}