Diary of Yunbogi (1965)

Diary of Yunbogi

1965

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Nagisa Ōshima

Cast

Hōsei Komatsu as Narrator

Crew

Takashi Kawamata (Director of Photography)

Keiichi Uraoka (Editor)

Nagisa Ōshima (Producer)

Nagisa Ōshima (Writer)