Ode to My Father
One promise can shape a lifetime.
A multigenerational family drama tracing one man's lifelong quest to honor his father's memory and reunite with his lost sister across decades of war and hardship.
Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.
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