Young-ho, an Ethnic-Korean living in Japan, decides to close the pachinko parlor that he has operated with his mother Kyung-ja for 50 years along National Route 7 in Akita Prefecture, Japan. When he invites his mother on an overseas trip to celebrate her retirement, she expresses her desire to visit Niigata instead of going abroad.
In a small town along Route 7 in Akita Prefecture, Yong-ho decides to close down the pachinko parlor that he and his mother Kyong-ja have operated for 50 years. He invites his mother on an overseas trip to celebrate her retirement, but she says she wants to go to Niigata. At the port of Niigata, Yong-ho remembers that his aunt Sun-ja went to North Korea from there, and realizes how his mother feels. When his mother dies, Yong-ho is left alone and finds a letter from North Korea addressed to his mother.
When his beloved dog goes missing, a young man embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him and give him life-saving medication.
Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning.
Doppelgangers from a parallel universe have assumed the identities of their opposites. To stop the threat of a mass invasion of look-a-likes, Structure, a covert agency that polices interdimensional travel, has sent its best assassin.
After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out.
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Soji Arai was born in Niigata, Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, one of the top private institutions of higher education in Japan, he began acting with the Bungakuza theater company. In 2002, he made a major impact on the Tokyo theater world with his starring role of Max in Bent directed by Robert Allan Ackerman.
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