Mayumi (film)
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Mayumi is a 1990 South Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok.
The film is based on Kim Hyun-hui, a North Korean agent whose Japanese teacher, Yaeko Taguchi
, was parored in 1998 and 12 years later she met Yaeko's son Kochi and told him that his mother is still alive.
Plot
Two North Koreans carrying Japanese passports bearing the names "Shin Ichi" and "Ma Yumi" plan to explode a Seoul-bound plane in mid-air. They are diverted to another plane after they have planted the bomb. When the plane crashes, killing all on board, the two plan to commit suicide. The man succeeds, but the woman is saved through medical intervention. When she witnesses the suffering of the surviving families of the bombing victims, she begs to be executed as an apology.The film is based on Kim Hyun-hui, a North Korean agent whose Japanese teacher, Yaeko Taguchi
Yaeko Taguchi
Yaeko Taguchi is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Taguchi worked as a bar hostess in Tokyo to raise her two children: a one year old son and three year old daughter, after divorcing her husband...
, was parored in 1998 and 12 years later she met Yaeko's son Kochi and told him that his mother is still alive.
Cast
- Kim Seo-ra: Ma Yumi
- Lee Hak-jae: Shin Ichi
- Shin Seong-il
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- Yoon Il-bong
- Yoon Yang-ha
- Choi Chong-won
- Lee Ho-seong
- Choi Yun-seok