A wild - at times bloody - story about a guy from
the North Korean community in Japan, who tries to find out what his roots are and where he
belongs to. Sugihara speaks Japanese, he looks like an ordinary Japanese punk and has
Japanese friends - but he is different. He feels alienated from his parents and his
background, he hates the rigid rules at the North Korean college he is attenting (chanting,
marching and being beaten up by a strictly communist teacher included), but he's got no
clue how to meddle into Japanese society. So he does best provocating others much to the
anger of his father a former boxer, who has very special methods of education. What most
people don't know, there are strong reservations in Japan against the Koreans in the
country, so in the course of the events Sugihara hits some walls, especially when he fells
in love with a Japanese girl, and doesn't dare to tell her the truth. Directed by Isao Yukisada (2001)
