Sara Yang

Under the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, the policy of sōshi-kaimei forced Korean people to replace their names with Japanese: an act of cultural genocide — the eradication of Korean language, customs, identity. In these years, my grandfather’s family was renamed: KuniMori. The eldest of the brothers, Park Young In, became Masami Kuni. Far beyond the end of the colonial period in 1945, he lived and died by this name. This film explores why, and what he left behind. Masami Kuni became a pioneering modern dancer, performing and teaching across Japan, Germany, Denmark, the United States, and Brazil. Passing in [...]