Diary of Yunbogi

Diary of Yunbogi

24 mins | Documentary | Dec. 11, 1965

This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his two-month research trip to South Korea in 1965 during which he was haunted by his encounters with impoverished street children in Seoul. The voice-over comprises diary entries from a six-year-old Korean boy and Oshima’s own reflections on Japanese-Korean relations, a controversial subject that he revisited in his later films Sing a Song of Sex and Death by Hanging.

Diary of Yunbogi

24 mins | Documentary | Dec. 11, 1965

Diary of Yunbogi
This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his two-month research trip to South Korea in 1965 during which he was haunted by his encounters with impoverished street children in Seoul. The voice-over comprises diary entries from a six-year-old Korean boy and Oshima’s own reflections on Japanese-Korean relations, a controversial subject that he revisited in his later films Sing a Song of Sex and Death by Hanging.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Sozosha
Original title ユンボギの日記
Directors Nagisa Ōshima
Writers Nagisa Ōshima

Cast

Hōsei Komatsu

as Narrator