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Dear Sis: Hair Cuts Season of the Boys Beijing Cotton-Fluffer Jiang Hu: Life on the Road Living Elsewhere Old Men I Am 17 Years Old in 1997 Magcojaodkal 98 Notes Before the Revolution An Autumn Fable For Maya How Do I Survive, My Friend! I Sing the Body Electric Kumar Talkies A Season Outside Jakarta Stock Shots: No. 7 Kamas Dolls Silk Tehran, the 25th Hour Trap After School Bicycles Annyong-Kimchi The New God Princess Plum P-udding The Children of North Korea Escaped to China Talbuk Sonyeondul Chungguk e Kada Making Sundried Red Peppers Gochoo Maligi The Three-Legged Crow Empty House Bin Chip Jaiyk Child of Mermaid Between Us Two... Beirut The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore Tension Title Deed from Moses Made In the Philippines ... To Fukuoka with Love Return to the Tribes Boys for Beauty Funny Competition Between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You I Love (080) The Red Leaf Legend Swimming on the Highway Two Guys Go Hunting Exotic 101 thirdworld The Hearts That Can't See the Sun Between Two Banks		Annyong-Kimchi JAPAN / 1999 / Japanese, Korean / Color / 16mm / 52 min Director: Matsue Tetsuaki Photography: Matsue Tetsuaki, Mogi Kazuki Editing: Yoshida Hiraku, Seki Masanori Music: Okano Samu Narration: Matsue Masako Producer: Yamatani Tetsuo, Yoshida Hiraku Production, Source: Japan Academy of Visual Arts 1-16-30 Manpukuji, Aso-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 215-0004 JAPAN Phone: 81-44-951-2511 / Fax: 81-44-951-2681 Matsue Tetsuaki Born in Tachikawa City, Tokyo in 1977. Saw Return of the Jedi at age six and was seized by an interest in movies. Since then has been consumed by dubbed foreign films on television. At a career counseling session in his third year of junior high school, he declared that he would become a director. Entered Japan Academy of Visual Arts in 1996. Awakened to documentary upon watching porn documentaries that were kept in the classroom. Annyong Kimchi is his 1998 graduation film. Currently employed part-time as a projectionist at the movie theater Box Higashi Nakano. He is now filming his next work. The starting point for the director, a student trying to make a thesis film, was recognizing his roots. His Korean grandfather had turned his back on his homeland and led an assimilated life as a Japanese. After he dies, calling his grandson "dumb ass," the director becomes determined to research his life traversing history. A reportage about a Korean-Japanese family, through the eyes of a contemporary third generation filmmaker. Director's Statement Though my citizenship is Japanese, I am of Korean descent, a Korean in Japan. But the image of Korea I had in my head was of compulsory police interrogations, wartime "comfort women" and so on, the stuff which I saw on TV and in the newspapers. Because of all that, whenever I thought about myself I somehow felt unsettled. Therefore I chose not to think about Korea. However, when I planned Annyong Kimchi, I decided to stop avoiding the issue and become totally familiar with Koreans in Japan. I didn't know whether my image of Korea would get better or worse, but I decided that despite my misgivings, I'd give it a try. And around me were not "unhappy Koreans in Japan," but easygoing people, doing their best from day to day. Though I hadn't paid much attention until then, these were for me Koreans in Japan. I really wanted to film such people just as they are. And it filled me with energy. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee