Tag Archives: Minari and the Real Korean-American Immigrants Who Have Farmed U.S. Soil for More Than a Century

hen the filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung began writing a movie based on his childhood as the son of a Korean immigrant farmer in Arkansas, he worried about how it might resonate on a wider level. “I used to not trust that specificity about my own self: I didn’t think it would be interesting to people,” he tells TIME. “I felt …

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