Yunhui-ege (2019)

Yunhui-ege: Directed by Dae Hyung Lim. With Kim Hee-ae, Yûko Nakamura, So-hye Kim, Yoo-Bin Sung. Yoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother’s first love, which she never spoke about before.

“I watched this movie because I am a fan of the Korean band Se So Neon who did the song Winter on the movieu0026#39;s OST. The video for the song gives you a good sense of the movie itself. Although the plot isnu0026#39;t overly dramatic and there wasnu0026#39;t a lot of tension, I felt that the actors made me care about them and there is just enough plot to get to know what motivates them. A lot of emotions is shown through expression rather than through talking which is something that I appreciate in Asian films.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI recently watched two other Korean movies with female protagonists House of Hummingbird and Kim Ji-young: Born 1982. There is one thread that seems to run through them all and that is Koreau0026#39;s cultural view of women. In all 3 of these movies there was mention or implication that the boyu0026#39;s in the family were the most revered among the siblings. Itu0026#39;s maybe more examined in the two other movies I mentioned but it is something that had affected the mother in this story when she was a teenager. I have been living in Korea for a number of years and often wonder if that male centered ideology is changing with the new generations having kids of their own. I hope so.”