Diary of Yunbogi

Diary of Yunbogi 1965 Directed by Nagisa Ōshima ユンボギの日記

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.

Country Japan

Production Country Japan

Language Japanese

Spoken Language Japanese

Gnere Documentary

Production Company Sozosha

Release Date 11 December 1965

24 mins