Chul-Ui Kim, representative of the theater troupes May and Hang-ro, is a Korean-Japanese in Osaka, Japan who chose to retain his Joseon nationality without citizenship from any country. Kim has been active as a playwright and a director staging over 80 plays since his first in 1993. This recognized playwright/director later wins the Young Japanese Producer Award in 2010. Although Kim had staged a number of plays in Tokyo and Osaka, there is something else he desperately wants...more

Chul-Ui Kim, representative of the theater troupes May and Hang-ro, is a Korean-Japanese in Osaka, Japan who chose to retain his Joseon nationality without citizenship from any country. Kim has been active as a playwright and a director staging over 80 plays since his first in 1993. This recognized playwright/director later wins the Young Japanese Producer Award in 2010. Although Kim had staged a number of plays in Tokyo and Osaka, there is something else he desperately wants to make come true and that is to put his play on the stages of his grandfather’s home, Jeju Island in Korea. Kim however was not able to go to Jeju though the troupe Hallasan had invited him three times from 2009 to 2011. It is because he is a Joseon National Korean-Japanese essentially without citizenship from any country. The government of Korea rejected his entry to Korea and he is welcomed nowhere in the South, North or Japan. He, however, dreams. He never stops staging his story to talk about his family and his people. And he dreams again to finally have his day to go back home. This documentary had filmed from 2012 to 2014 about Chul-Ui's life, play, and rejection to his entry into Korea.less