A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 2, 1991
Original Title:
Homes Apart: Korea
Alternate Titles:
Homes Apart: The Two Koreas
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Third World Newsreel
Production Countries:
South Korea | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 56
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. By the early 90s, as the rest of the world celebrated the end of the Cold War, Koreans remain separated between North and South, fearing the threat of mutual destruction. Beginning with one man's journey to reunite with his sister in North Korea, filmmakers Takagi and Choy reveal the personal, social and political dimensions of one of the last divided nations on earth. The film was also the first US project to get permission to film in both South & North Korea.
Click each video panel to show or hide.
Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.
Additional Camera:
John Esaki
Chris Li
Michel Negroponte
Mark Smith
Additional Editing:
Richard Stillwell
Additional Music:
Tom Laverack
Assistant Camera:
John Esaki
Associate Producer:
Jinsoo Kim
Hye Jung Park
Director:
Christine Choy
J.T. Takagi
Director of Photography:
Nick Doob
Christine Choy
Editor:
Maro Chermayeff
Original Music Composer:
Jason Hwang
Producer:
Christine Choy
Sound:
J.T. Takagi
John Esaki
Mark Greenfield
George Leong
Sound Editor:
Richard Stilwell
Title Designer:
Ivan Chermayeff
Writer:
David Henry Hwang
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.