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  1. Movies
  2. Tooku no Sora

Tooku no Sora

Original Title: 遠くの空

2010
1h 24m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

2010

Runtime

1h 24m

Storyline

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years later, the woman keeps her past a secret and worries that her daughter Mie Matsuki (Rina Uchiyama) may pursue her Korean roots. One day, Mie who already has a fine boyfriend, introduces her mother to a Korean man named Yoo Jung-Bae (Kim Eung-Soo). Yoo Jung-Bae is the man that her mother fell in love with 30 years ago during the Gwangju uprising. During his college days, Yoo Jung-Bae was the leader of the student activist movement. Now he is transferred to an investment company in Tokyo. Mie works at the same investment company. Feeling a bond with Mie, Yoo Jung-Bae walks the streets of Tokyo with Mie every weekend and begins to learn about each other.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 24m
Sep 25, 2010
Languages
Japanese
Director
Haruo Inoue
Haruo Inoue
Production Countries
Japan

Top Cast

6 Cast Members

Rina Uchiyama

Rina Uchiyama

Mie Matsuki

Kim Eung-soo

Kim Eung-soo

Yoo Jung-Bae

Fukumi Kuroda

Fukumi Kuroda

Akiko Matsuki

Sayuri Oyamada

Sayuri Oyamada

Honami

Kensuke Yamagishi

Tatsuo

Masayo Utsunomiya

Masayo Utsunomiya

Sam Soo Jang

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