Treeless Mountain

I want/hope to see this run in SG.




The director So Yong Kim said in a statement:

Treeless Mountain is inspired by events from my early childhood in Pusan, Korea. My mother divorced our father and left us with our grandparents on a rice farm. She immigrated to America in order to find a better life for herself and to build a future for her children. At the time of these events we were too young to understand and our mother did not tell us what was happening. I began writing the film to search for certain lost memories from this period of my life and also as a letter to my mother.

It makes me think of the film Nobody Knows and the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, both of which are remarkable.

Nobody Knows continues to haunt me to this day because of the terribly sad ending. I can't look at Meiji Apollo Strawberry Chocolate without thinking about the little sister.