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Summary:

This multi-festival film is a portrayal of the fortitude of an immigrant "war bride" in America. Seventy-six-year-old Young-Ja Wike is one of the 10,000 Korean women who married American G.I.s. after the war. For them marriage was the only escape from the crushing poverty of post-war Korea. "Grandma" lives in South Jersey with her uncaring, rather brutish husband in a kind of domestic servitude. She has brought up three unappreciative children, working doggedly to feed the family and run the household. On her own she cultivates a colorful garden of chili peppers which she dries and sells. Never having learned English, she is isolated from the community, and from her family as well. "Grandma" opens her heart to the Korean filmmaker, revealing the pathos of forty years in exile.

Author/Creator:

Lee, Hosup

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

This edition in English.

Main Work:

And thereafter [by Lee, H.]

Subjects:

Wike, Young-Ja

Korean War, 1950-1953 — Women — Korea

War brides — Korea — Biography

Women immigrants — United States — Biography

Korean War (1950-1953)

1950-1953

War brides

Women immigrants

Women

United States

Korea

Genres:

Documentary films

Online media

Internet videos

Biographies

General Notes:

Originally released as DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Director's Choice, Black Maria Film Festival, 2004
Silver Dove Award, Leipzig International Film Festival, 2004
Special Jury Award, Hawaii International Film Festival, 2004
Vancouver, InternationalFilm Festival, 2004

Audience:

For High School; College; Adult audiences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (57 min.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

747799235

Other Control Numbers:

1785329 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP1652676/avon